This thread is posted under “Twitch Messaging Interface and Chat”. “Viewers” are not a “user group” in the context being discussed, because Viewers need not be “users” with registered accounts connecting to chat. Viewers can be, and often get identified as, just numbers.
“Followers” are registered users identified by a username in chat. They have committed to “Following” a channel and can be the largest group recognized there for filtering purposes (“Followers Only” mode).
The importance of Followers to Broadcasters and Developers cannot be overstated, even if they are being underutilized in chat design.
If this is your belief, then my request should be agreeable. Followers are the most acknowledged user group without a chat tag.
Do you have a source for these moderation statistics?
Neither of us knows the number of harassment cases tied to “unfollow tracking”, if that number is significant, or how those numbers compare to “unsub tracking” cases. All we know is that the same potential for harassment exists in both groups, but is attributed to impeding chat designs around only one.
The potential for harassment arising from “unfollow tracking” was a concern raised at one time. We haven’t been told how significant the concern was then, or if that concern is still relevant now.