Start with admin rights and verification
Add the bot to your group and promote it to admin with the rights needed to delete messages and restrict offenders. The bot then posts a message in the group: tap «⚙️ Manage group» there to open that group's settings in your private chat.
Enable verification for new members. The bot can ask them to press a button, solve a simple challenge or accept the rules, and keeps them muted until they pass. This helps filter automated and fake accounts.
Stop links, floods and banned words
Turn on link protection and choose the response: delete only, warn, kick, mute or ban. You can allow trusted domains instead of blocking every link.
Set the anti-flood limit for repeated messages, then add blocked words or phrases. Each word can have its own action, and the bot can also control media such as stickers and forwarded messages.
Give members clear rules and a way to report
Write a short welcome and the group rules. Anyone can view the rules with /rules, and you can place a rules button in the welcome message.
- Reply with /warn to give a warning.
- Use /mute to silence an offender and /ban to remove access.
- Members can reply with /report or @admin; the report goes privately to eligible admins who have started the bot.
Make the protection bot your own
Open @mansiabot and choose the group protection bot. BotFather can open with a suggested name and username for you to confirm, or you can create the bot in BotFather and paste its token into the factory. Then add it to the group and set your protections.
If your main problem is screening people before they enter, consider Join Requests too. It is designed to collect and review join requests before approval.