Category: Twitch Tutorials

There’s this handy feature on Twitch that helps you catch spam / bot messages and puts them into a place for you to review in your Stream Manager.

First we’re gonna open up your stream dashboard. Then we’re gonna go to Settings -> Moderation.

Here you can set the Chatter Permissions, AutoMod & Message Filtering and Channel Protection.

You can see at glance as to what your settings are, as shown by the sheilds for each section. The more sheilds are filled the more restrictive that section is for that specific catagory.

If you click on ‘Show All Advanced Settings’ it will expand all three of them so that you may go through each of them to adjust their settings.

If you want to know more about a specific section use these links to jump around.

From the top down were going to start on the ‘Chatter Permissions’ section which controls who can chat and what hoops they have to go though before they can chat.

Here we have Chat Verification which requires chatters to have a verified email and/or phone number older than X amount of days before they can chat. It’s a string deterrent against mass bot accounts and persistent harassers who create throwaway accounts. The only gotchya with this one is that it could raise friction for genuine viewers, especially in regions where SMS verification is unreliable.

Next up is the Followers only mode which only allows accounts that follow your channel, anywhere from 0 minutes – 10 days to be allowed to send messages. This one helps with drive-by bots and raid spam from newly-created accounts, which is great for small communities or during growth phases. You can use a short follower wait early in a stream or longer when under spam/raid attack if that happens to you.

Subscribers-only mode makes it so that only people who have subscribed to you channel are able to chat. Toggling this on is perfect for private/Q&A segments or when you want a quieter, reward-based chat. It’s also a blunt but effective anti-spam tool. Just don’t use it as default unless you want very exclusive chat.

Non-mod chat delay introduces a short delay in seconds, for non-mod messages before they appear. Mods can see messages immediately while others see them after the delay. Enabling this one could help as it gives the mods or you, time to act on problematic content before it spreads.

Block hyperlinks prevents messages containing links from appearing unless allowed. It stops link spam / malicious redirects and reduces low-quality bot posts. You can allow links for trusted users or via moderator approval if you want to keep functionality but reduce spam.

The Chat rules shows rules and may require viewers to acknowledge rules before chatting. This helps set community expectations and gives moderators a stronger basis for enforcement.

Messages that are highly likely to be deleted by Moderators or lead to timeouts and bans will be held for review. The more actions your Moderators take, the more accurate Smart Detection will get.

Here you can test your AutoMod settings. Go ahead and type the worst and not so worse of terms and phrases to see if they automatically get blocked or not

Here you can add terms or phrases that will always be let through. Add to this as messages get blocked that you actually want to let through.

Here we have six different catagories to look through: