POLL: Points Based On Activity

[WickedSarah]

Hello. Forgive me if I'm just dumb and have missed this..

Is there  a way to make it so that you only earn points if your active. The bot did wonders for keeping my chat active at first.. but now it seems a lot of people, even mods, just lurk for the points. Is there a way to set it so that if you stop talking after a while you stop earning? Thanks for your help

[Dante557]

Don't worry, you haven't missed anything. You cannot miss something which doesn't exist.

I feel this would be a useful feature for everyone though. How it is currently implemented is much like how those Team Fortress 2 servers where you idle for items work. Simply idle in IRC and you get points while the stream is live. You don't even currently have to be watching the stream for it to count either as it works by the viewer list (Which sometimes can be quite buggy in themselves as we all know).

I've moved this topic to the "Feature Request" forum, added a poll to gauge user interested and changed the title. Poll closes in 14 days.

Thanks,
Dante557

[dagello]

I can't vote in the poll, but this would be a great thing to combat the lurkers.

[Virlomi]

I couldn't vote either but I would LOVE this feature. That way it encourages people to keep the stream running to support twitch and the steamer more.

[victim]

I like the idea. However I feel that it would only cause spam, right now its lurk for points which gets me up in the searches and ultimately brings in more viewers. If there is a reward for chatting also then there will still be lurking but then there will be people saying stuff that has no value for the only reason of getting points

[Virlomi]

I just feel there should be some way to detect whether or not they have the video on because right now I could have 67 people in the chat but the viewer count only shows 45. That just means they're there lurking with the video paused which isn't doing anything for me in regards to people searching for a game on twitch. If people have the video paused it doesn't count towards the viewer count.

[Dante557]

I just feel there should be some way to detect whether or not they have the video on because right now I could have 67 people in the chat but the viewer count only shows 45. That just means they're there lurking with the video paused which isn't doing anything for me in regards to people searching for a game on twitch. If people have the video paused it doesn't count towards the viewer count.

Until Twitch releases something in the API that changes a value based on if the flash video in their page is being played or not (Which is highly unlikely) this will probably never be possible. The only way this could actually be possible would be checking the play states on a separate web page and then saying "If you want to earn points, you MUST watch here" which people are probably not going to do.

The next best option is what is being presented as an idea here and, unfortunately, probably will be the only way to do it

[Arctomian]

agreed, this is a problem with the twitch api. how ever i do know that they them self have a function like this.
for example:

when a person lurks in your chat but he puts your stream on pauze. it will not show him as a viewer anymore after 10 minutes.
this migth be something they can develop in the API it self as well so developers can work with this.

Arctomian