New to Twitch! Help please! :D

First and foremost, this forum is dedicated to questions regarding the Twitch API and other developer-related topics. This is a question more suited to the general help forum over at help.twitch.tv, so please direct any further questions like this over there.

Disclaimer: All the information below is off the top of my head and may not be correct. Also I don’t represent twitch and all that jazz so I obviously don’t 100% know what they will or won’t do. (Especially with regards to bans)

  1. AFAIK twitch will only ban you if you are in violation with the Terms of Service (Found here).
  2. Paying services to artificially boost your view count is against the terms of service, and is a ban-able offence.
  3. If you don’t view-bot, you should be fine. If someone else is attacking you or your channel and trying to get you banned, just report them and you should be alright.
  4. Become a twitch partner. Details: here
  5. Don’t use copyrighted music in your streams (AFAIK it is a violation of the ToS). You CAN be banned for that. (It seems like a lot of smaller channels get away with it though. If you’re paranoid about being banned I wouldn’t risk it).
  6. Check automatically archive my broadcasts here
  7. I have never personally heard of SWATTING.
  8. If you don’t post your personal information then you should be alright.