Account restrictions are the single biggest income risk for a full-time live creator. Most of them are preventable, and the preventable ones almost always trace back to the same handful of causes: policy-gray content, unmoderated chat, third-party audio, and slow reaction when something does get flagged.
Before going live
- Review the current Live policy highlights — rules change quietly; what was fine last quarter may be flagged today.
- Check overlays and backgrounds for brand logos, copyrighted characters or QR codes.
- Confirm your moderator roster: at least one active human moderator per 1,000 concurrent viewers.
- Load your word filters: slurs, scam phrases, competitor spam, contact-info fishing.
- Verify two-factor authentication and that recovery email/phone are current — before you need them.
During the live
- Keep music licensed or platform-provided; background radio is a classic silent strike.
- Never relay another stream or screen-share third-party video.
- Shut down harassment fast — hosts are responsible for chat behavior they visibly tolerate.
- If a warning banner appears, adjust immediately and log the timestamp; do not argue with the banner on stream.
If a restriction lands anyway
Speed and structure beat outrage. Within the first hour: capture screenshots of the notice, note the exact stream segment, and file the in-app appeal with a factual, one-paragraph description. Within the first day: review the flagged behavior honestly and change whatever triggered it — repeat flags escalate far faster than first ones.
The appeal that wins is boring: timestamps, facts, no adjectives.
Creators on our protection plans get this workflow as a managed service — monitoring, first-hour response and appeal drafting included. But the checklist above works even if you never work with us, and we would honestly rather you use it than lose your account.