Kick Chat Commands: The Full List for Streamers and Mods

Kick's chat commands follow the same conventions as most streaming platforms, which makes them easy to pick up if you have modded elsewhere. Here is what is available, grouped by what you are actually trying to do.

Moderation commands

• •/ban [username] — permanently bans a user from your chat.
• •/unban [username] — reverses a ban.
• •/timeout [username] [minutes] — temporarily mutes a user. The everyday tool; a ban is for people who are not coming back.
• •/untimeout [username] — ends a timeout early.
• •/clear — clears the chat history for everyone watching.
• •/mod [username] — grants moderator status.
• •/unmod [username] — removes it.

A short timeout is almost always the right first response. It interrupts the behaviour without escalating, and it gives the person a chance to come back and behave — which most of them do.

Chat mode commands

• •/slow [seconds] — sets a cooldown between messages per user. /slowoff turns it off.
• •/followers [minutes] — restricts chat to accounts that have followed for at least that long. The best defence against a bot raid.
• •/followersoff — turns follower-only mode off.
• •/subscribers — restricts chat to subscribers only. /subscribersoff reverses it.
• •/emoteonly — allows only emotes. Useful for defusing an argument without silencing chat entirely.

Follower-only mode with a 10-minute window is the single most effective setting against automated spam, because bot accounts are almost always brand new. It costs you almost nothing — a genuine new viewer waits ten minutes or follows to talk.

Which ones to actually memorise

You do not need all of these in your head mid-stream. Four cover almost every real situation:

• •/timeout — for the one person who needs to stop.
• •/slow 5 — for a chat moving too fast to read.
• •/followers 10m — for a spam or bot raid.
• •/emoteonly — for cooling a room down without shutting it up.

Everything else you can look up between rounds, or hand to a moderator.

Commands solve behaviour, not attention

Every command here controls what chat is allowed to do. None of them helps with the harder problem: knowing what chat is saying while you are focused on the game. Slow mode reduces the volume; it does not tell you that four people asked the same question, or that the mood shifted after a bad round.

streamerfriend covers that side — it reads your Kick chat live, surfaces the top questions, tracks the mood, and flags spam waves and toxicity spikes, without adding a bot to your channel or needing mod permissions. Pair it with the commands above and you have both halves: control over behaviour, and awareness of what is actually happening. More on the Kick tooling landscape, or see how Kick chat compares to Twitch and YouTube.