
If they deny the message, the term that caused the message to be caught will automatically be blocked for a limited time. If you are using AutoMod, some messages will be held for mods to allow or deny. You will also notice that one term in the above screenshot, “naughty,” is temporarily blocked by your mods. This can protect your chat from variations of links that are unwelcome.

**` for instance would filter "", "", "", etc. You can also use this feature to filter any variant of a url.

So if anyone typed "haters" or "hateful" those messages would be blocked. For example, we have "hate*" as a banned word. Those are wildcards, which will match zero or more characters at the start or end. You will notice that there are some asterisks on the beginning and ends of words in the example. Messages containing channel-blocked terms will not be posted to your chat. The number of terms you can filter is in the tens of thousands, so you do not need to worry about reaching the cap. adding “hi there” as a term will not block messages containing only “hi” or “there” but will block messages containing “hi there” or “there hi”). Messages that contain all words in the term will be blocked, without blocking messages that contain only one word in the term (e.g. You may add terms containing multiple words. Your Blocked Terms list will work with all AutoMod settings, including Level 0. To use this feature, type the word you wish to have blocked from your channel, submit it, and scroll to the bottom of the Channel Settings page to save your changes. In your channel settings you will find a section for "Blocked/Permitted List, Powered by AutoMod": Reduce mod workload by automatically blocking or permitting terms that AutoMod catches but you always deny or allow.Reduce toxicity in chat in conjunction with other common settings, AutoMod, chat bots and chat rules.Utilizing these features can help streamers to: Note: There are some terms and malicious URLs that Twitch blocks automatically. Permitted Terms helps decrease your mods’ workload by automatically permitting terms that AutoMod catches but you allow.

Twitch’s Blocked Terms filter helps to protect you and your viewers.
