Hey all!

So we're having a rampant issue with toxicity. Now pretty much all of us know that most of the issues in chat we face are coming from small children not supposed to be on the site but that doesn't make dealing with the comments any easier.
A lot of the times we are seeing these comments come directed at many of our female content creators and this issue is causing some of them to stop their streams due to not being able to deal with it anymore.

I'm bringing forward a solution that may help course correct how streamers can deal with the harassment and keep the entertainment factor up.
In chat when a comment comes across that needs to be deleted, a Mod simply deletes like they do now BUT instead of striking it out it does something entirely different.

While still striking it out for regular chat so nobody sees anything at all, allow to to then pop a message that says "*USER NAME* Comment Deleted. Click for details"
That way the comment is completely hidden from streamer view but is still accessible for reporting and dealing with accordingly. I believe this simple fix could potentially lead to a better streaming experience for all genders of content creators across the board.

So with Season 2 now revealed and the new usage of sparks which only benefit partners, I was thinking about a system for non partnered streamers.

Basically people would use the skills as normal, but instead of a cash payout, non partnered streamers would get a % of the sparks spend from users into their own sparks account.

The reason behind the % instead of the full amount of sparks is because sparks now has a real life $ value.

As I've seen many point out, having sparks set on your Mixplay board or for people in general to use the new skill system in non partnered streams seems like throwing money out of the window since they'd go to no one and not supporting the streamer they choose to use their sparks on.

Ukraine has a ~40M population, of which, according to the last census, 67,5% consider Ukrainian their mother tongue.

Ukraine has a vibrant gaming community. Ukrainian eSports teams (go NaVi!) are some of the most successful and competitive in the world.

Valve added Ukrainian language option to Steam in 2013 and since then the number of Ukrainian Steam players (and Steam games that have a Ukrainian localization) has been steadily increasing. According to SteamSpy, as of June 2016 there were 3.7M Ukrainian players in Steam. (source: http://steamspy.com/country/UA )

Given the above mentioned arguments, we, the Ukrainian gaming community, ask of you Mixer & Microsoft to add Ukrainian as one of the official languages in Mixer and allow Ukrainian language to be an official broadcasting language.

With kind regards,
Ukrainian gaming community

In light of the new Mixer season 2 ive noticed non-partners feeling out of the loop with benefits of sparks being used in their channel. Ive got a great idea to alleviate that issue and also a cool raid/host idea!

Most non-partners warn their viewers telling them not to use their sparks in their channel as it is of no benefit to anyone and they simply disappear once they are used. That being said, to bring the value of getting sparks used in non-partners channels instead if evaporating into the abyss they should be deposited into the streamers own spark count. Seems simple enough right? Looking into the long term for this idea you get good & bad.

Good:
-Non-partners feel a meaning for sparks
-Incentivizes streamers to network and use their sparks in other channels
-Encourages viewers to use sparks anywhere
-Non-Partner community engagment increases leading to new streamers and new communities

Bad:
-Sparks no longer disappear = higher mixer payouts to partners. This could get out of hand with bots and other forms of spark farming.

Host/Raid

Would love to see a host or raid spark option! The idea is when you go to host another streamer that it gives the option in the host drop-down menu to spark host or spark raid. This triggers an event when you host the streamer similar to the beach ball. The idea is that the event or overlay will pop up and face off the chats vs one another in a raid/defend senario. Chatters can then use their sparks to defend or raid the hosted stremer. Similar to a tug of war contest where sparks are the pulling of the rope. At the end of the event all the sparks used will be given to the stremer in which chat voted for either the hosted streamer or the raided streamer as a form of a prize. Just another way to boost a fun community vs community activity.

The new Season 2 update allows for Mixer partners to be payed out for sparks spent on Skills and MixPlay on their channels, essentially turning sparks into a real money currency.

As a non partnered streamer on Mixer who focuses heavily on my MixPlay board, I now feel guilty about having my buttons cost sparks since it will essentially be like throwing money away.

There should be a feature where starting from the launch of Season 2, any sparks spent on non partnered streams are "banked" and if/when the streamer gets partnered, they would receive a payout based on how many sparks have been spent on their channel during that time.

Even if it's at a reduced rate compared to sparks being spent on current partners (ie: 100k sparks = $10 for current partners and 100k sparks = $5 upon reaching partnership)

This way it doesn't feel like burning money when spending sparks on non partnered channels.

Encourage viewers and streamers to get more involved with interactive skills like beach ball by offering rewards to the streamer and viewers who participate in them.

Beach Ball is a lot of fun but regardless of whether or not you only get 1 hit or you make it all the way up to 200 the outcome is the same. But if there were rewards for streamers who set high scores and viewers who help them achieve that then Rally Skills would be much more effecting at rallying people together.

I propose rewarding streamers with a spark bonus depending on what score the channel is able to reach and each viewer who participated is awarded sparks depending on how much they contributed. For example; if the beach ball hit count makes it all the way to 200, the streamers gets 250K sparks instead of 200, and each viewer receives 10 sparks for every time they hit the ball.

Rallies are a lot of fun but there is so much potential for how they could evolve and encourage viewers to make the investment of dropping 200K (or more) on 1 skill for streamers and communities they truly appreciate.

With Microsoft launching Azure Cloud services in both Johannesburg and Cape Town soon, how difficult would it be to set up a Mixer ingest server (or two!) in this region?

There are thousands of Xbox and Win10 gamers in South and Southern Africa, and most of them need to rely on the +100ms pings to London or Amsterdam whenever they try streaming. Sadly, this doesn't work very well. The same is true from a viewer perspective too - poor internet connections make watching a Mixer stream (especially on mobile) a challenge for many.

There's huge potential to grow the Mixer brand in this region, but it's going to need a little help and support from Mixer and Microsoft.

Hey guys

I love the whole concept of sparks earning as we watch and being able to use them to interact with streams, but it would be great to be able to utilise them on more things.

Maybe have the ability to convert sparks into things such as a 3 month mixer pro code, free sub of channel or like a 5% code off an order from the mixer store would be a great idea to reward those of us who spend hundreds of hours watching streams over Mixer.

many of us have 500,000+ sparks and apart from hitting an odd expensive button it would be great to use them more and get rewarded for doing things we love doing!

I would like to say how disappointed I am that some of my favorite streamers are leaving mixer for twitch, however upon talking to them, the twitch affiliate program is a very common reason. I think it's time Mixer has one of their own.

This would allow streamers to work towards a middle ground, unlocking the sub button and potentially getting 1 custom emote so viewers are also rewarded. Upon doing this I could understand requirement for partner potentially going up to 1,000 followers while the affiliate program requires 500, and instead of affiliate call it Mixer buddies, Mixer Arc, or something to differentiate it from Twitch.

Not only does this allow streamers to feel like they can achieve goals in a step by step climb, but also the Twitch streamers who are on the fence due to the lack of this 1 feature would feel more inclined to make the switch or come back if they were here before.

If this idea is considered I can even break it down even more on how this can be a success for both streamers and mixer themselves. Thank you for the consideration!