Twitch Rolls Out ‘Shared Ban Info’ Safety Tool To Empower Creators To Take A Community Approach To Moderation

Source: Twitch

To increase safety for creators, Twitch rolled out Shared Ban Info, enabling them to share a list of users they have banned in their channel with up to 30 other creators.

Creators do this by sending a request to another creator’s channel, and if accepted, both channels will share their list of banned users. Once creators have shared their information, they can choose a default action on how flagged users are handled for their channel — between monitoring or restricted. Those tagged for monitoring can still send messages in the stream chat, but they are flagged for creators and their moderators, while users tagged as restricted will have their messages only visible by creators and moderators.

Source: Twitch

Through Shared Ban Info, Twitch empowers creators to take a community approach to moderation. It puts the power in hands of creators and their communities to keep their streams positive and safe in a way that works for them. Often facing trolling and harassment, sharing lists of users who may cause trouble between creators makes it easier for creators and their teams to know how to handle these situations.

Creators, particularly those from marginalized groups, have long called on Twitch to provide them with new safety tools, so it’s a move in the right direction for the go-to streaming platform.