How to ban on Twitch is one of the learning processes associated with all those people who want to grow on this platform. Twitch, just like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and any other social network is full of toxic people, also called trolls.
There are two types of toxic users on the internet. On the one hand, we find users who they are that way on purpose. And, on the other hand, there are the users who, mainly for his youth, they believe they are always in possession of the truth, and they discuss any issue they think they control.
Regardless of the reason that leads these users to be considered toxic (on Twitch they are called that while on social networks they are called trolls), the video game transmission platform makes available to us Different tools for this type of user to access our community and/or interact with us.
From my personal experience, I have been writing on blogs for more than 10 years, and I have found myself in the comments of my articles with a large number of trolls who criticize the way of writing, the calligraphy, the news itself...
The best method to avoid trolls than to ignore them. If you try to enter into a reasonable dialogue, the troll will always want to be right. No matter what you say, he is always looking for a confrontation.
As I mentioned, in the world of video games these users are considered toxic and the best way to get rid of them is the same: ignore them.
When a person of this type sees how we do not read their messages, we do not pay attention to them and that, in general, nobody is paying attention to them will go to another channel.
However, if we want this type of user to get tired of bothering on Twitch and end up leaving, we must inform Twitch of your intentions, being the best option to ban him from the channel.
If you want to know how to ban on Twitch, I invite you to continue reading.
How to ban on Twitch
Users who broadcast their games or tasks through Twitch do so through an application, be it OBS, Streamlabs... But, when it comes to reading and interacting with the chat, they use the Twitch website.
Through this website, streamers have the necessary tools to manage the operation of the chat, establish automatic commands, expel users for a certain time, and also ban users.
The operation and management of chat works through commands, as if it is the command line of Linux, macOS or Windows. To ban a user, we must use the following command:
/ ban {Username}
A banned user has the possibility to request to be unbanned from the platform by filling out a kind of form that the streamer will review later and where he can accept or deny the unban request.
Another method to unban a banned user is through the command
/unban {username}
This command must be typed in the chat while you are live.
But, if you don't want to ban a user, but just want to limit their chat interaction for a few minutes, you can use the timeout command.
/timeout {username} [number-of-seconds]
Using this command, the user in question will not be able to write for 10 minutes in the chat. Once that period of time has elapsed, they will be able to interact with the chat again without limitations
Useful commands for streamers
In addition to managing the use and enjoyment that our followers make of the chat, Twitch also makes a series of commands available to us to manage the operation of the chat.
| Command | Functionality | |
|---|---|---|
| /user {username} | This command displays the user's file allowing access to all the messages that have been published and when the account was created, as well as other data. | |
| /slow {seconds} | Turn on slow mode. Thanks to this command you can specify the time that elapses between each of the messages that users can send. | |
| / slowoff | Turn off slow mode. | |
| / followers | Turn on Followers Only mode. Using this command, only people who follow you will be able to participate in the chat. In addition you can also restrict the time from when they follow you until they can write from 0 minutes (all followers) to 3 months. | |
| / followersoff | Turn off Followers Only mode. | |
| / subscribers | Subscribers only. This command allows you to configure your room so that only subscribed users can write in the chat. | |
| / subscribersoff | Turn off Subscribers Only mode. | |
| / clear | With this command all chat messages written so far will be deleted. | |
| / uniquechat | This command prevents users from posting duplicate messages in the channel and checks for a minimum of 9 characters that are not Unicode symbol characters. It is intended so that messages in the form of drawings of sexual content and spam do not appear. | |
| / uniquechatoff | This command disables Uniquechat mode. | |
Other useful Twitch commands
In addition to the commands shown below, you can also pass with the section Moderation on Twitch from our channel. In this section you can specify that users have:
- Verified your email address.
- Verified phone number.
- Set rules in chat
- Activate Followers Only mode
- Block web links.
- ...
| Command | Functionality | |
|---|---|---|
| /host [channel-name} | This command allows you to host another channel on yours. | |
| / unhost | Disable hosting if you want to broadcast again. | |
| /raid {channel-name} | This command will send the viewer to another live channel. | |
| / unraid | Disable raid if you want to broadcast again. | |
| /marker {description} | Adds a stream marker (with an optional description of up to 140 characters) at the current timestamp. These markers are used to index the stream and are ideal for when multiple games are being streamed on the same stream. | |
| /mod {username} | This command allows you to promote a user to channel moderator so that they have access to the same features as the channel owner. | |
| /unmod {username} | Removes the cans from moderators to a user. | |
| /vip {username} | This command assigns VIP status to a user. | |
| /unvip {username} | Remove VIP status from a user. | |
| / emoteonly | Emoticons only mode. This command allows you to configure the room so that only messages composed of 100% emoticons are allowed. | |
| / emoteonlyoff | Turn off Emoticons Only Mode. | |
| / commercial | Use this command to run a 30 second ad whenever you are a Twitch Partner or Affiliate. | |
| / commercial {30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 150 | 180} | A command for affiliates and partners that allows you to run an ad of the specified seconds to all your viewers. | |
| / goal | It allows you to manage a goal of subscriptions or followers. | |
| / prediction | This command will open a panel to make predictions on the channel. | |