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I've been using tg for several years and I don't have a problem with spam. If you practice common sense and stay out of the giant public groups where anything g

I've been using tg for several years and I don't have a problem with spam. If you practice common sense and stay out of the giant public groups where anything goes you never have a problem. I'm in over 100 groups and interact with nearly 1000 people but I'm only in groups containing friends of friends so spam/scam doesn't happen. Once that's out of the way, tg is light-years ahead of whatsapp (their most closely aligned competition) in terms of features and speed of upgrades and api openness. Whatsapp is the inferior product, where again I'm only in groups with people I know, but where as recently as this morning I got another spam from a Thailand number pretending to have texted a "wrong number" to get me to interact.

skinnymuch 5y ago
I gave my example. Admin of a small public geo-local group chat. I don't think the proper answer in this context is to say use common sense and stay out of certain groups. The context is Telegram links commonly being spam and scams. Personally, I have no problem with spam/scams either. But why does Telegram not have more built-in anti-spam stuff. I'm a developer and didn't see any immediate anti-spam features in group chats. I agree. Telegram is light years ahead of every normal chat, messaging app. Discord is a different sort of app. Oh and yeah, I get direct spam messages on Whatsapp more than Telegram. I barely use Whatsapp.
- stereoradonc 5y ago
  Try the awesome "Miss_roseBot". Once you get the hang of it, it's easy. Alternatively, you can contact me on Telegram : ommahakaaleshvar (Search for the username) and I'll be happy to extend the assistance. If you need to administer a group, I'll be delighted to help.