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Like many have asked before (for different reasons) for years (even before we had this suggestions platform) and as you can see with other suggestions in this platform too:
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1748
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3417
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10535
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10533
There is a need by some people to be able to avoid private messages for non-contacts.
Why?: There are many reasons on why to add this feature.
As a social person i enjoy being inside Public Groups. It's amazing to be able to talk to other people from all around the world.
But it comes with a cost:
Users/Scammers/Spammers and Autommated Accouns that are (or not) inside public groups can annoy you in private.
For some unclear reason Telegram decided to just ignore the issue. They added a bunch of options that are not enough.
For example there is a hidden privacy option to Archive and Silence new Private Messages from non-contact users.
It's a step forward but this option only appears if you litterally get bombarded with hundreds of unknown users...
Most of the people that ask for a way to disable Private Messages from non-contacts are females.
Making that option hidden until some unknown conditional is reached feels like Telegram is embracing all those Creeps to allow them to annoy those females in private.
Not letting anyone decide if they want to (or not) receive private messages just kills the spirit of Public Groups for some minorities.
To be fair: We already asked and made noise with this topic back in 2016 or 2017... Probably no one will give a f*** about this.
Telegram Team lives in a bubble for years, they see things from another prespective as a New User that starts with Telegram, enters it's first masive Public Group and then it gets countless messages from bad people.
And don't take me wrong... More than 80% of people are really nice human beings... But in a group of 10K users even if just the 10% are the worst it's enough to drive you crazy with private messages from strangers.
Other suggestions:
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3417
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10548/15
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10548/20
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/27401
Yet they refuse to give us tools to manage spam ourselves.
I really don't understand what the issue would be to allow me (us) to just give me(us) the option to allow or not non-contacts to contact me in private.
It's not like the world would end giving me the choice to decide.
Not sure why Telegram thinks it's better that they have the choice to decide who can or can't contact ME. Thank you Telegram.
TBH, I don’t care how social Telegram becomes in future but please give users the choice to let them decide what they want & how they want to use Telegram. (Personal messaging or Social messaging) Thats the best course of action in my eyes.
As always with Telegram, it's something but it's not what it was asked for and it's also not that hard to add a privacy option if you never want to receive private messages from strangers. It doesn't have to be setted by default, but if you want to enjoy public groups it's kinda a must. Or else, scammers, and annoying people will annoy you in private....
Not sure why Telegram is so stuborn to understand it.