[terda12]

So, is there any way to stop this botnet? Seems to be that the only way to stop bots from abusing the twich IRC api is to ban each of them.

I have programmed twitch spam bots before (repeats what people say, once on each account with eight accounts), it's surprisingly easy to do. Twitch does have some sort of system to detect if you are abusing the API I think, because I noticed that I get timed out pretty quickly.

[anoa]

A few ideas were thrown around with a third-party server and captcha necessary to validate your twitch account to send commands.

People working on it say it's being handled, but it definitely isn't a bad idea to brainstorm.

[n17r4m]

What about setting up a second site with a form: enter twitch name and answer a turing test question. also ask for person to create a new turing question with answer. Person has ability to request a few new questions before deny.

Submitted questions are approved by admins via rapid fire Y/N buttons, with ability to fix typos, etc.

This authenticates that user for something like 5-15 minutes or however long to participate in voting.

[kbar13]

this kind of defeats the purpose of twitch chat