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[Drab Emordnilap]

So I like watching twitch streamers, especially ones with only a few hundred viewers, so I can actually participate in a discussion (instead of just walls of flying spam). I started watching one half an hour ago, and I was talking in the chat, but other than the streamer responding, no one else was talking to me. Lots of people were posting unrelated, neutral remarks, though. ("Good job/I'll be right back/what was that?/I like it/hey/etc")

It's not like spam is uncommon in twitch, but it was weird that literally nothing seemed related to anything happening on the stream. I started looking at the accounts, and they all were following exactly one account -- the same one, and not the one they were chatting in. My best guess, is they're bots that the streamer paid for, to boost his spot in the page of "most viewed hearthstone streams". I'm frustrated for encouraging someone who would do that, and I asked in the chat how much he paid for the bots. I (obviously) didn't get a response. When someone actually commented on the game, I said something to them in the chat about what was going on, and was banned from the chat channel.

I reported his account and the account all the bots were connected to, but I'm still annoyed. I'm not sure what else to do about it. Just wanted to vent. All account names withheld, of course.

EDIT: "You are permanently banned from talking in STREAM REDACTED."

[Lekkit]

I had no idea this was a thing. These bots are evereywhere doing shady stuff.

[Kirian]

Damned bots, they're taking over the inte **CARRIER LOST**

[Kirian]

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[Drab Emordnilap]

I had no idea this was a thing. These bots are evereywhere doing shady stuff.

I had no idea either until yesterday. I was wracking my brain trying to explain what I was seeing. It's certainly easy enough to find sites offering such services; the most surprising part to me was how expensive they were.

[popsofctown]

I don't know what twitch can do, guy will probably just make a new account..

I guess the most effective thing they can do is record some information so that when those people manage to kicked up a notch to subscriber able status they can look through the chat log and stream log and ascertain that there was botting and then deny them that upgrade.