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Once you have completed registering your bot token with the Modr8 platform you can now activate a chat for your bot to manage.
Modr8 powered bots can manage any number of chats and there are benefits to registering multiple chats all to the same bot. To checkout our global & multi-chat features read the
Read on to find out the exact steps of getting your chat registered with Modr8.
Here's a quick overview of the process to activating your first and any subsequent chats.
Add your registered bot to your chat
Set your bot as an admin with the permissions to "Delete Messages", "Ban Users", "Pin Messages" & "Add New Admins"
Run the command /activate in your chat
Login to the Modr8 platform and select "Manage Bot"
Select to begin a if your chat is above 100 members.
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You can not activate a chat whilst you are set as an anonymous admin. Telegram does not send us the required information to identify you as an owner. Once activated, feel free to switch back to anonymous!
Activating your first and any number of chats and channels all follow the same process. We require the bot owner or a team member that is an admin of the current chat to be able to register it on the platform.
First we need to add your bot as an admin to your chat, if you have already done this then you can skip to the next section. If you bot is not an administrator of your chat it is unable to moderate and in most cases it will be unresponsive due to not being able to read messages in your chat due to Telegram privacy settings.
On telegram, In your group select the title of the chat in the main window which will open up the group information page
If using desktop, select the 3 dots symbol first to bring up the "Edit group" page. If using mobile you will normally have this page already opened for you.
Select "Administrators"
On mobile select "Add Admin" and click the Magnifying glass icon. On desktop select the "Add Administrator" button at the bottom of the pop-up.
Type the username of your bot including the @ symbol e.g. @MySuperCoolBot
Select your bot from the search list - if on desktop you may need to confirm that you wish to add them to the group and make them an admin.
The "What can this admin do / Admin rights" page will pop-up. You will need to set as a minimum the following permissions for your bot to work correctly:
Delete messages - To delete spam messages and clean up its own messages
Ban users - To kick and ban users at a chat / global level
Invite users via link - To allow the referral module to work
Pin messages - To allow /pin & /unpin commands to work
Add new admins - To allow the /promote /demote commands to work.
Your bot will now be an admin of your chat and can read messages being sent to it.
Now your bot is an administrator it can read messgaes in the chat and the bot owner or a team member can activate the chat.
Type /activate in your chat
Navigate to the Modr8 Platform and click the "Manage" button below your bots profile image
Observe your chat will be listed with the chat icon and chat identifier below your bot profile.
Select to begin a if your chat is above 100 members.
You are all set! The chat will be showing the settings, announcements, commands and other buttons ready for you to configure your chat settings.
During activation, the Modr8 bot runs a series of checks to ensure it has the correct permissions and the person running the /activate command has the required access to register the chat. In some circumstances you will receive feedback from the bot about items that need to be addressed. The following section will list the various types of messages and actions to take.
Click "Save" on desktop and the mark on mobile.
The bot will respond with the message to state the chat has been activated. If this did not work -
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Action To Take: Promote your bot back to being an admin of the chat. Follow to do so.
When you create a group for the first time it is known as a "normal group". Once your chat grows to a certain size or when you make it public and enable chat history Telegram in the background converts the "normal group" into a "Supergroup". As a Telegram user you probably didn't know this happens! Certain moderation features are only available for Supergroup chats and the uses many of these for restricting new users and spammers.
Supergroups were in 2016 but when any new group is created it does not automatically become a Supergroup, it has to first be converted.
Certain moderation features are only available for Supergroup chats and the uses many of these for restricting new users and spammers.
Supergroups were in 2016 but when any new group is created it does not automatically become a Supergroup, it has to first be converted.
Ensure you have registered your bot with the Modr8 platform. Check our if you aren't sure on what to do.
