Q&A

Q&A turns the audience into part of the show. Producers and creators can publish a list of questions, and viewers can submit their own — driving deeper engagement and giving hosts a steady supply of relevant material to react to live on screen.

How It Works

• Viewers submit questions of their own from inside the app or web player.
• Everyone can upvote or downvote questions to push the strongest ones to the top.
• Hosts see the prioritized list in the Creator Studio and can answer questions one at a time, marking them as finished as they go.

The Q&A list updates in real time across all viewers as votes come in and as the host moves through questions.

Voting

• Upvote to push a question higher.
• Downvote to lower a question's priority.
• Vote counts are visible on every question.
• Sorting by vote count keeps the best questions at the top of the host's queue.

Management Suite

Producers and creators have full control over the Q&A queue:

• Delete — Remove a question entirely from the list.
• Mark as Finished — Flag a question as answered so it's clearly out of the active queue but still visible for context.
• Block — Prevent a question from being shown and prevent the submitting viewer from posting more questions during the session.
• Moderate — Hide questions that need review without permanently deleting them, then restore or remove them later.
• Pin — Pin a specific question to the top so it gets answered next, regardless of votes.

These controls are available from the Q&A panel in the Creator Studio and from the producer view in Stream Manager.

AI Moderation

Every submitted question runs through HotMic's AI moderation system before it lands in the public queue. The same community guidelines uploaded for chat moderation apply to Q&A submissions — questions that don't meet the guidelines are held back from the general group automatically.

This means:

• Inappropriate or off-topic submissions never reach viewers.
• Producers see flagged questions for optional review.
• The AI gets sharper over time as moderators accept or reject borderline submissions (see the feedback loop).
• Most sessions need little to no manual question moderation.

Why It Matters

A static talking-points list keeps a show on script. Q&A keeps it relevant. Hosts spend their time answering the questions the audience actually wants to ask, while the moderation suite makes sure the queue stays clean, on-brand, and safe to put on screen.