How to Moderate Your Chat

  • Updated on Feb 6, 2025
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025
  • 1 minute(s) read

When you are live, you can moderate your chat by giving the user a timeout, banning a user, or kicking a user out of your live.

Give a user a timeout

You can mute a user by giving them a “timeout.” To give a user a timeout, follow these steps:

  1. After you have gone live, tap on the user to bring up their half-screen info.

    User interface showing daily ranking and quick action buttons for a social media app.

  2. Tap Timeout.

    User interface showing quick actions like Invite as guest and Timeout options.

  3. Choose how long to give the user a timeout.

    User timeout settings for chat, allowing message restrictions for a specified duration.

  4. Tap Mute chat.

    User timeout settings for chat, allowing mute for eight minutes.

    The user has now been muted.

Ban a user from your live

  1. After you have gone live, tap on the user you want to ban to bring up their half-screen info.

    User interface showing daily ranking and quick action options for managing users.

  2. Tap Ban User.

    User interface showing options to timeout, kick, or ban a user in an app.

  3. Tap Ban.
    Note: Banning a user bans them from all future streams.

    User interface displaying options to ban a participant from a live stream.

Kick a user out of your live

  1. After you have gone live, tap on the user you want to kick out to bring up their half-screen info.

    Screenshot showing quick actions and daily ranking options on a mobile app interface.

  2. Tap Kick User.

    User interface showing options to timeout, kick, or ban a user in an app.

  3. Choose how long to kick a user out.

    User interface for kicking a participant from a livestream chat session.

  4. Tap Kick for __ minutes.

    User interface for kicking a participant from a livestream chat session.

    User is now kicked out for however many minutes you selected.