Due to the obscene amount of "buy viewers" bots & abusive users on Twitch, decided to increase the restrictions beyond just email verification. This now includes a phone number verification for new chatters, but with a minimal restriction (seeing as bots typically follow & are gone in a split second, they'll never get past this...unless they were actually stupid enough to add a phone number to their accounts). The account age restriction should block the people creating new accounts just to be abusive in chat.
Anybody who has chatted on the channel in the past (and hasn't been banned) should be exempt from needing a verified phone number on their Twitch account, otherwise they can just wait 10 minutes after following to chat if they don't have a verified phone number. The account age bypass may be adjusted or removed if it bypasses independently rather than in addition to following.
Restrictions will be adjusted as necessary, but I don't expect I'll have to go much farther than this.
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