Keeping order: slow mode, restrictions, anti-spam and reports
What it is
Permissions decide what ordinary members may do: send messages and each kind of media, add members, pin messages, change group info, create topics. You can also slow the chat down, restrict or ban single people, and switch on Telegram's own anti-spam. Permissions and slow mode don't apply to admins.
How to do it
- Open Permissions. iOS: tap the group photo › Edit › Permissions. Android: tap… Open Permissions. iOS: tap the group photo › Edit › Permissions. Android: tap the group name › pencil icon › Permissions. Desktop: … › Manage group › Permissions.
- Switch off what members shouldn't send, such as links or stickers. Charge Stars… Switch off what members shouldn't send, such as links or stickers. Charge Stars for Messages makes non-admins pay Stars for each message.
- Under Slow Mode, allow one message per 5, 10 or 30 seconds, 1, 5 or 15 minutes, or 1 hour.
- Add Exception gives one member their own rules, for example read-only.
- For a spammer, delete their message and tick Report spam, Ban user or Delete… For a spammer, delete their message and tick Report spam, Ban user or Delete all from them. Select several messages to handle all senders at once.
- More than 200 members? On your phone, turn on Aggressive Anti-Spam on the Administrators screen.
Watch out
- Aggressive Anti-Spam sometimes catches ordinary messages: check Recent Actions (it keeps 48 hours) and report false positives there.
- In a public group, members can't be allowed to pin messages or change group info.
- Report on a message (tap it on Android, press and hold on iOS, right-click on Desktop) sends it to Telegram's moderators.
With Gem
Gem doesn't touch permissions, slow mode, bans or anti-spam: those stay in Telegram. Nearby, in a connected group it welcomes new members, keeps the group rules pinned and removes «joined» lines.
Sources
- https://telegram.org/faq
- https://telegram.org/blog/silent-messages-slow-mode
- https://core.telegram.org/tdlib/docs/classtd_1_1td__api_1_1set_chat_slow_mode_delay.html
- https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0