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# Managing Roles on your Twitch Channel
- URL: https://media.allcreatortools.com/managing-roles-on-your-twitch-channel/
- Published: 2024-09-07T13:05:40.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-07T13:05:40.000Z
- Author: KingKrazey
- Tags: blog_list, #Import 2026-07-17 06:30

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.

![](https://media.allcreatortools.com/content/images/2024/09/twitch_roles_1-2.webp)

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](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/top-10-twitch-and-bttv-emotes-and-what-they-mean), [overlays](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/how-to-make-stream-overlay), 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](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/how-to-save-streams-on-twitch), 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](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/how-to-block-someone-on-twitch), 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](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/no-to-dead-chat-building-an-active-streaming-community) who are recognised with a special [badge](https://allcreatortools.com/blog/how-to-add-custom-sub-badges-on-twitch). 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](https://dashboard.twitch.tv/), click community, and then Roles Manager.

![](https://media.allcreatortools.com/content/images/2024/09/twitch_roles_2-2.webp)

 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. 

![](https://media.allcreatortools.com/content/images/2024/09/twitch_roles_3.webp)

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.

![](https://media.allcreatortools.com/content/images/2024/09/twitch_roles_4.webp)

If done correctly, you will receive a Success message as shown below.

![](https://media.allcreatortools.com/content/images/2024/09/twitch_roles_5.webp)

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.