So I noticed recently that there was a stream where, before it had even began, Neuro had been timing people out in offline chat. Then afterwards, the stream went pretty smoothly. I think letting Neuro read chat like half an hour before stream starts, and letting her time people out during that time, will help to reduce the amount of timeout-beggars on the actual stream (since most of them will get their fill of "funny Neuro timeout message" before it even starts) without having to remove or restrict any features from Neuro.
#Let Neuro Time People Out in Online Chat
crude cove
There will still be some, of course, we can't eliminate begging from streams completely, but it would hopefully at least make it less prominent when it matters.
proven sphinx
If the timeouts are 10 minutes, this will only fuel even more timeouts. Offline chat is already self triggering timeouts like crazy.
While I like the idea, if the intention is to reduce timeout beggars, this will do nothing but to create a new expectation no one asked for and more pressure for vedal to get the twins ready even before the actual stream time.
dreamy basalt
A 30 minute timeout would be enough time to change the topic away from timeouts. Neuro just needs a buff in her ability to moderate chat since she can only timeout single chatters at a time. Might not fix it but would probably make it a bit better
crude cove
Increasing the time would help, I think. And then combining that with the occasional pre-show session, maybe before a very important/historic stream, would help to get it out of the way, get it out of people's systems, before the stream starts.
drifting jolt
let her kill people for a stream
digital kestrel
Neuro has been timing people out in offlinechat for a while now. Almost every time Vedal tests something with her, we offline chatters let her time us out, sometimes even when we'd rather not be. It just so happens that Vedal tested neuro before that stream and more people noticed. This isn't a new issue but rather a classic case of chat doing the exact opposite of what it's asked to do. It's similar to the well-known "Please don't do X" phenomenon, where a request to stop a behavior only encourages it further. The only real solution would be to implement much stricter rules, but it's unlikely that the community would want that.