It was beginning to be something serious and necessary. Twitch chats had begun to become very toxic places both for the owner or moderator of the channel and for the rest of the users who have to put up with reading certain comments. Luckily the platform has added new tools with which it will try to avoid harassment as well as other activities that may annoy and cause a poor and even very unpleasant user experience.
More control over who can chat on Twitch
One of the big twitch problems and many other social platforms is in the chats and comments posted in them. These public spaces, where anyone can enter, should be a place to express respectfully and politely what is considered appropriate and related to the content, a place where you can learn even from points of view that are contrary to yours.
However, what we would all see as an ideal is not always fulfilled. In the end, because of a few, something that could be very positive ends up being tarnished by those who enter a chat just to insult, annoy other users and until the content creators stop uploading new videos. etc Something that, once again, occurs on more platforms and hence other examples such as TikTok anti-harassment measures.
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To solve all these problems or, at least, alleviate them as much as possible, Twitch has introduced new tools to your Chats. These basically consist of mandatory verification if so requested by the user to be able to comment on them.
That is to say, the content creators and moderators of the Twich chats will be able to establish from nothing if in order to comment in a chat you must register with a profile whose phone number is verified. If it is not the phone number, then it will have to be with the email.
Anti-harassment measures
During the last few months these attacks and expressions of hate have only grown. The increase has been so great that many Twitch users have seen themselves forced to stop their activity on the platform. Because on a recurring basis there were certain groups of users who organized themselves to enter the chat of a specific channel to release all kinds of racist, transphobic, derogatory comments, etc.
The problem was such that a series of proposals were even promoted among content creators in order to get the attention of Twitch to take action on the matter. Well, it seems that it worked as a result of these newly introduced innovations.
It is true that email verification will not be such an effective measure, because creating a new account is easy and free, in addition to the fact that with it you can continue to maintain your anonymity. Another thing is the mobile phone. Here we are talking about a more effective measure, because getting a new mobile number every time you are blocked with one of them is no longer so easy.
How to enable verified chat on Twitch
If you have a Twitch channel and you want to do direct Taking advantage of these measures to enjoy a healthy community without having to deal with rude people who can arrive individually or organized, this is how you can enable verified chat.
- The first thing is to access Twitch and log in with your user account
- Now go to Control Panel
- Once there, go to Settings and then Moderation
- Finally, Manage moderation settings
- In this menu you can establish whether to request verification by phone or email to participate in the chat
This setting has additional options with which verification is something that only applies to new accounts, to new users of the chat, to those who have been in their accounts for less than a certain time that can range from one hour to six months and for last that is for chat users have been following you for less than 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a week, etc.