Scarabeus Journal
Product updates, guides and stories about moderating Telegram groups.
Articles6 min readHow to protect a Telegram group from spam
Setting up anti-spam from scratch: from the simple blocks that remove half the noise to AI moderation. Where to start and what is next.
Guides5 min readHow to moderate a Telegram forum topic by topic
How to give each forum topic its own rules, why a topic can only be stricter than the forum, and what the General topic really is.
Updates2 min readForums: separate moderation in every topic
Every forum topic gets its own moderation settings, AI rules and balance spend, while the chat-wide settings stay the minimum for all.
Articles5 min readWhat AI moderation costs and how not to overpay
AI moderation spends the balance on every message it checks. Every setting that cuts the spend, from minimum message length to trust levels.
Updates2 min readMember trust
Every member now has a trust level, from very low to very high. The bot is stricter with newcomers, and long-timers can be skipped.
Guides5 min readHow to tell the bot in your own words what to delete
AI moderation rules are written in plain text. How to phrase them, what the model sees, and how to test a rule in the simulator.
Updates4 min readAI moderation grew a settings panel
Your own rules in plain words, a separate punishment for every topic, control over what the balance is spent on, and auto top-up.
Guides4 min readWhy the bot deleted your message, and how to contest it
How a member finds the reason with /why, how to file an appeal, and how an administrator handles complaints without digging through the chat history.
Guides3 min readBot commands in a Telegram group: the full list
Ban, mute and delete straight from the chat, as a reply to the offender. The full command list, duration formats and who can call what.
Updates2 min readPunishment reasons, appeals and in-group commands
The bot explains what it punished you for, members can contest it, and a moderator can confirm or undo it in direct messages.
Guides4 min readRegular expressions for Telegram moderation: examples
When phrase rules fall short: card numbers, substituted letters, invite links. Expressions you can copy and how to test your own.
Guides5 min readWarning, mute, ban: setting up punishments
A chain decides what happens on a first violation and when the counter resets. Steps, warning delivery, amnesty and manual review.
Updates2 min readAI moderation
A new block hands every message to a language model: you tick the topics it should watch for and it catches them in any wording, in text and in photos.
Guides4 min readHow to give a moderator dashboard access, not everything
Permissions are granted one at a time: logs without settings, bans without unbans, appeals on their own. Who should get what.
Guides5 min readHow to block links in a Telegram group
Domain allowlists and blocklists, subdomains, links with a path, and different punishments for different links. Which mode to pick and why.
Updates2 min readSign-in, chat permissions and 15 interface languages
Password-free Telegram sign-in, permissions granted one item at a time, a member profile page, and the interface in fifteen languages.
Guides5 min readHow to remove "joined the group" messages in Telegram
Telegram itself announces who joined, left and changed the group photo. How to remove those notices for everyone, and which to keep.
Updates2 min readLinks, regular expressions and the rest of the rule blocks
Link moderation with modes and separate punishments, regex rules with a tester, a member allowlist, and cleaning up Telegram's service messages.
Updates2 min readThe moderation log, the activity log and chat statistics
Two logs with filters and message search, activity charts, and punishments straight from the dashboard — ban, mute, kick and unban without opening Telegram.
Guides15 min readHow to set up a word filter in a Telegram group
The bot deletes messages that contain certain words. How to build such a rule from several words, add synonyms and exceptions, and test it before it goes live.
Updates3 min readPhrase moderation and punishment chains
A builder for phrase rules with connectors, distance and exceptions, rule sets, punishment chains, and two simple blocks — text length and duplicates.
Updates2 min readThe Scarabeus dashboard and connecting your own bot
A dashboard for Scarabeus, connecting your own bot with a token from @BotFather, several chats and bots on one account, and basic group stats.