Some thoughts on being a good vibes mod

Hello wonderful beans! Here are some thoughts that I would like to share from my experience as a moderator on Twitch and some other things life taught me along the way.

First and foremost a wonderful mod is someone who cares deeply for the channel they are moderating, they believe and share the same virtues as the streamer. When we believe in something and feel part of it we naturally strive to make that that world a better place! An inviting, welcome, and safe space.

Some viewers may see mods as authoritarian figures, and I think this is awful! I try to constantly break this preconception by being chill, enveloping and welcoming!

Now, about calling out and preventing not-wholesome chaotic energies on chat. There will always be the possibility of a viewer trying to harm the community. Sometimes they just want attention, some will even try to trigger mods by almost crossing that line of what is acceptable and what is not. If I see someone trying to taunt the mods, I will never ever refer to them in chat. I will send them a direct message and politely ask them to not do that. Viewers want to enjoy the stream and chat with each other, and I will try my best to keep chat clean of any clash messages between mods and disruptive beans.

About !so command (Shoutouts), I always prefer to wait a little after someone raids to do the !so command, if chat is super active with raid messages then the !so will be lost in the limbo. I usually wait for the streamer to ask someone to do the !so , or I do it after the streamer introduces the person who guided the raid. That way the !so feels more personal, less mechanic, and more engaging!

If I feel chat is going really off-topic in an unhealthy way, then I will try to subtly bring another topic to the conversation to shift the vibes towards something more constructive to the stream.

Remember that every new person that joins chat has a whole universe inside them to share and may have a lot to contribute to the stream, so I try to be super welcoming! Sometimes a mod can’t be all the time in chat and greet every new viewer, but if I am actively chatting, then I will try my best to do so. This also helps the streamer to know who has just joined chat.

Sometimes a user follows the channel without/before saying anything. If they don’t say anything, then I won’t directly welcome them. Some beans don’t want to chat at all and prefer to lurk, or sometimes they don’t want to be seen, it could be that they are shy or feeling insecure at the moment, we never know, so I prefer to give them time. Once they join or interact in any way, I will give them a super fluffy wonderful welcome!

I feel like I could write a huge wall of text about the importance of a warm welcome. Everything in life is based around that to me. We want to be part of something, to feel safe, to feel that we belong somewhere. If we can give that sensation to someone, then our lives become meaningful at that singular point in time.

I guess that’s it!

Vida

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