With “Shared Ban Info”, Twitch is introducing a new function that is intended to provide more security in the community. The whole thing works quite simply: Anyone who runs a channel and has already blocked some users can share information about their blocked users with other channel operators. In this way, colleagues can also promptly block the same users if they so wish.
In this way, channel owners can get together to dismiss troublemakers together. However, this data is not automatically shared with others. Rather, you must send a “Shared Ban Info” request to another channel operator – ideally after prior consultation with them. This option is now available in the Creator Dashboard in the moderation settings. If the other channel operator agrees, they will receive your ban information and you will receive theirs.
At the start of the function, it will be possible to maintain a maximum of 30 such shared ban info relationships with other channels. You can then also set up how users tagged by other users will be treated as the default. For example, you can set that they are initially only marked with a flag, but can still chat. This way the moderators can keep an eye on them. If you want to be more careful, you can also restrict them right away, then their chat messages must always be released before they are published.
Our new Shared Ban Info feature rolling out today helps you easily share banned user information with trusted channels to help keep your community safe.
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— Twitch (@Twitch) July 21, 2022
If you want to, you can of course also remove the users from the lists if you trust them. As a standard, the conspicuous users of other channels are also stored as “flagged”. You can always see on which channel the users have been banned. Your messages will then be given a red frame so that you can find them more quickly. If users go completely overboard, you can of course still report them to Twitch.
If you think another channel is banning you, users, too indiscriminately and the data is therefore rather misleading for you, then you can end the “Shared Ban Info” relationship at any time. This is always possible for both parties, regardless of who originally made the request.
You might be wondering why Twitch doesn’t ban users who are banned from other channels directly from you as part of this feature? The platform states that they do not want to be too rigid and ultimately want to leave the decision-making authority to you.
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