There seems to have been a few changes to the API and chatsystem for mods and they are honestly nothing more than an annoyance (for me).
Mods are constantly getting removed from the mod list on the API for no good reason. This results in programs like chatty constantly showing washlists of mods getting unmodded and unmodded.
Bots like nightbot now automatically get mod status even if channel owners don’t want them to, (They aren’t actual mods, but they show up on the mod list for some reason which is just stupid)
My biggest gripe right now is that inactive users (who were modded) have been improperly removed from the moderator list, and now show up as empty strings rather than actually being gone, resulting in the “/mods” command now just returning a bunch of commas and no way to remove those names.
I don’t see a reason for any of the changes made in the past 24 hours, and the only purpose they seeem to serve so far is to be rather annoying.
I’d like to see everything reversed, unless they made these changes on purpose.
Anyway, just my 2 cents, curious to see where twitch takes these changes.
Seems that IRC is issuing a tonne of +o/-o confirmed
Seems to be a problem with chatty
Seems to be a problem with chatty
Neither 2 or 3 are occuring in vanilla chat (no bttv no anything), and I don’t see any “wrong” modding of Nightbot in the channel(s) I am looking at (nightbot is not even present)
Seems to be a problem with chatty not TMI (for 2 and 3 at least)
SideNote: the thing that sends +o/-o is a relativty useless TMI IRC interface IRCv3 capability since it’s the “join/part” capability, it’s useless when you have 1000+ members in chat anyway.
Actually, all 3 are occuring outside of chatty and you can test that by either going on vanilla twitch or by building your own bot and having it request the current moderator list and such.
To check point 1 and 2, just look at tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/drdoomtastic/chatters for example.
To check point 3 you can just go on vanilla twitch and type /mods in my channel, it should show you multiple empty names.
All 3 are reproducable regardless of current program or extension.
Sidenot: If I recall correctly, there was a bug a while back where if a users account was removed from Twitch, it was leaving empty names in /mod lists.
I’m getting empty names in your channel on first load of the page, before any +/-o’s occur
Yes, nightbot needs to be present in the channel for him to show up as a mod in the tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/drdoomtastic/chatters list. However, he himself is not a mod on the /mod list.
This image shows him receiving mod status, while your image shows that he is in fact, not a moderator.
(You can check this yourself, when MOD: Nightbot shows up on chatty, the api link also shows nightbot as a moderator).
Again, there are no real issues with all this, it’s just a major annoyance to have a properly working system changed into this mess.
That’s ok, I have included a picture of nightbot being on the mod list.
The api is where chatty is getting its (apparently incorrect) information.
Again, nightbot getting modded will not show up on IRC, it onlyshows up on the API.
Maybe twitch decided that making all globally recognized bots into mods automatically was a good idea, seeing as they are already able to change title and such without the channel owner giving them the rights, which is another point of interest to me, but not now.
Go to nightbot’s channel, make it enter your channel and type !title anything, or !game anything. It’s able to change both your title and game without any prior permissions.
They are also included on the moderator list in the API, but other mods are still able to ban them, as long as they aren’t explicitly modded.
The constant +o/-o is annoying, but only a problem for chat clients respecting the MODE messages, which Twitch-specific IRC clients really shouldn’t do IMHO. They’re batched and don’t separate channel mods from those with global moderation privileges (global mods, admins, staff) who aren’t even allowed to moderate the particular chat in most cases.
The viewer list is not properly showing mod status on all requests at the moment as far as my quick testing can tell; it’s listing mods under normal viewers instead in a lot of cases too.
/mods showing empty usernames is an old issue dating back over a year at least.
Also keep in mind none of this behavior is actually documented in the first place. Changes can therefore happen without documentation as well. (MODE is documented as a user gaining or losing moderation privileges in a channel; still as accurate as it used to be, just spams it more often.)
#1 and #2 were fixed a day or two after I posted this thread. #3 still seems to show, however seeing as the others have said this is an older issue I guess that’ll be resolved again sometime.
