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  Conductor Savy 🚂🐐🔞 (@ConductorSavy) reported 14 seconds ago

  @LushenAZN @TwitchSupport You're missing the point here dude. What you're suggesting sounds good on paper, but the reality is it won't work and will hurt the creators regardless. If you think they can simply go and sue every current viewbot service into oblivion, you're out of your mind because it's likely they can't reach some of them due to them being based in another country. Would it be nice for them to do that? Hell yeah, taking down a viewbot service will greatly help... if only another didn't pop up in its place a few hours later doing the same exact thing. And again, the issue here is how the creators are being affected. Regardless if it was the creator, someone in their community, or a malicious user out of their community, because the traffic of the viewbots went to their channel they will be punished whether they wanted it or not. Say I piss someone off because of a comment I made. That person then sends viewbots at my channel, and twitch enforces on it. That hurts me, and I have no way to prove I didn't order the bots myself. I have no clue which service was used with the viewbots because the accounts involved with the viewbotting raid won't say the service they're from and the service is likely using VPNs to mask the bot's actual IP address. Say someone in my community decides they want to help boost my CCV. Instead of legitimately getting friends and family to watch as well, they purchase from one of these viewbot services instead. That will hurt me when Twitch does enforcement on my channel because of the traffic. I didn't buy them, but just like the above I'm harmed because of it and have no way to prove it wasn't me. Using either of the above examples, it's going to hurt me because then I can't benefit from my actual CCV of real people there because the botters forced an enforcement that forces my CCV lower than it should be depending on how big the bot waves are. So tell me how slicing off the head of the hydra will help me when two more heads replace the one that was taken off. You know how much money and time Twitch will then have to invest into finding these services to get rid of? It's likely more than the resources they have available, and they'll likely put those resources towards ****** AI moderation that'll go hard on creators regardless of the source of the viewbots that target their channels, harming them more instead of fixing the problem with authentic viewers. At this point I'd rather a captcha service of some sort be done basically serving as a "Are you still there?" type of deal that shows up in different forms that the legitimate users can solve but takes the AIs of the bots much longer to do and figure out.

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  LarryFishburger (@LarryFishburger) reported 45 seconds ago

  @MDCRE_ @TwitchSupport In the long run this hurts them more though. Ad revenue will decline more and more as advertisers realize their paying for inflated views. The sooner they fix the issue the better. Rip the bandaid off now.

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  Phil (@trollied) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport Sadly this means bad actors can pay to view bot somebody else & give them issues. You need a different approach.

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  Discorrdia VT 🍨🐈 (@Discorrdia) reported 5 minutes ago

  Havent been able to stream for a couple weeks now and twitch support isnt replying to the email I sent. No, I did not get banned or suspended. I waited two weeks with no reply before sending another. Kinda sucks ngl. @TwitchSupport Help a girl out! 😭 Miss vibing with my chat

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  Onepeg (@Onepeg) reported 7 minutes ago

  Hey @TwitchSupport. My friend @PartyChipLIVE got banned on twitch for pretending to dox his best friend in his friend’s twitch chat by typing in a fake address and phone number, got reported, and twitch permabanned him for it. I’m trying to help a friend. It’s been months and he’s gotten no response. Can you please assist?

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  Sam (@ZoinkzGG) reported 7 minutes ago

  I regret changing my name on twitch please help @TwitchSupport 😭

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  👑Conqueror of Digital Cities👑 - /\/\/-\ Lawless (@TimeWith99961) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Twitch @TwitchSupport This Fits you SO WELL! Free to JOIN, just give us all your Information! Zero Experience Needed = We know how to steal your Money, Just Fine. Help Support = ZERO ... We Choose Who WE BAN!! GREAT BUSINESS MODEL!!! @JeffBezos Dude Seriously, Can I be CEO?

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  𝕴𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖑 𝕾𝖚𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖗𝖆 𝕬𝖑𝖇𝖆 (C.O) (@Idril_Susurra) reported 10 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport Hello, I'm having trouble accessing my account because someone has stolen my Twitch account. They've changed the email address to a Gmail address ending in .uk. I'm Spanish. My account is linked to my mobile phone, but I can't verify my account because the hacker changed my email. What can I do in this situation?

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  Josep (@josepur) reported 19 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport The fix is simple. Use engagement as the weight for discovery, not view count.

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  Crisendo (@Crisendo) reported 20 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport Hey Twitch, maybe it’s time to remove public view counts? It’s become mostly an ego metric. Traditional TV never shows live viewers to the audience. Sponsors already get proper analytics behind the scenes. Would take a huge chunk out of the viewbotting problem.

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  305🌴 (@NarutoNxtHokage) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Mystereontv @Twitch @TwitchSupport Just a low iq, hood raised (my a single mom), ashy, drug filled, ashamed of notning offended by alot, cartoon loving hoodweeb, degenerate ape. Find new people to associate and fix your life, cuz all your ****** friends are 2 or more of those things too I know

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  The Uninvited Guest (@guest76502) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport I have reported people that are viewbotting and basically you did sweet **** all in cancelling that person. So the viewbotting problem is down to the Twitch Support having the heads so far up their arses and not sorting it out. I think the CEO will do nowt about it

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  KRISTYNxROSE 🥀 | The Crypt (@KristynxRose) reported 27 minutes ago

  I feel like of Twitch took the time to fix their discoverability they would have a lot less issues with viewbotting and streamers “cheating” the system. But all they do is take away discoverability tools and make things worse… I will say this again @twitch @TwitchSupport…. When everyone grows on the platform…. Everyone wins… including Twitch! Don’t you want ALL your streamers growing to help keep the platform financially afloat?? Discoverability should be based on viewer interests and not number of views. People wouldn’t viewbot as much if discoverability wasn’t ZERO. This should be your main focus right now to keep our platform alive.

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  zelus (@overzeluss) reported 27 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport you guys are shameless I barely get 10 mins of watch time before I get another 3 min ad break on twitch mobile to shameless FIX it

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  Sowdy (@SowdyPlays) reported 30 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport Serious question, what if someone goes viral and it’s all organic? The way this is worded will make it seem like the low stay low and the high stay high If this is the case you will kill your platform as new people won’t be discovered and the guys you keep top will lose interest over time, look at ninja. He used to be your biggest star and now he’s nowhere near (he is still a big streamer by every metric) Is there going to be a way for people to be discovered easier @djclancy999? A lot of your recent statements have been “get big elsewhere and we will reap the rewards” look at your clipper badges If you fix the bullshit kingmaker system then maybe… Just maybe people will be less likely to viewbot as they feel like they need those extra 50 views to be seen in your system “But our biggest streamers won’t be seen!” That’s a load of rubbish if people with 100k+ following don’t get people into their streams without being boosted by the platform then that speaks buckets about the platform