There are currently four roles available on your Twitch channel that you can assign to your viewers. Each role has a purpose, and multiple roles can be given to one person, except that a moderator can’t be a VIP, and a VIP can’t be a moderator. Only one of these unique roles can be assigned to a viewer simultaneously.
The roles available to assign to viewers are:
- Artists - are members of a creator’s community who are recognised for their contributions to the brand/style of the creator’s channel, such as emotes, overlays, avatars, and more. There are five artist badges available for each channel.
- Editors - can access a channel’s dashboard and help creators manage their channel by editing stream/video info, running commercial breaks, uploading videos, starting reruns, downloading past broadcasts, reviewing, searching, sorting, and deleting (including mass deleting) clips and setting channel clipping permissions.
- Moderator - help manage a creator’s chat to help ensure that it stays safe, welcoming, and fun. They can time out or ban users, enable slow, Subscriber-only, or Follower-only chat modes, and start, manage, and end polls and predictions.
- VIPs - are valuable members of a creator’s community who are recognised with a special badge. VIPs can chat without being affected by slow, sub-only, or followers-only modes, chat without being affected by rate limits, and post links in chat even when links are disabled.
To add roles to a user, you head to your Twitch Dashboard, click community, and then Roles Manager.
If the user hasn’t got a role, click Add New in the top right corner of the screen and type the username of the person to whom you would like to give a role.
Then, select the roles they require by clicking the checkbox, and make sure to save the changes by clicking the Save button in the top right corner.
If done correctly, you will receive a Success message as shown below.
You can also give moderator and VIP roles to users in the Twitch Chat by typing in /mod Username and /VIP Username respectfully. Once the users have their roles, the next time they talk in chat, they will see the icon next to their name, whether it’s an artist, VIP, or moderator role.