Bugs and Suggestions

To add to the underlying suggestion here, I'd like to propose that group owners can also disable the ability for members to see other members’ profiles. Every group is different, and some groups 'invite' more scams/spam than others. While crypto spam is popular, there are other varieties as well, at least in terms of how they initially present.

In my case, I have an army of bots that remove spam and scams using a variety of different methods, but that doesn't stop scammers from changing their tactics. When a network of scammers detect that there is an army of bots, and that army of bots is working, they simply join and DM people. Point is, group owners become aware of this very quickly and they have to start putting pinned announcements in their groups regularly to tell people it's a scam. Why should they have to do that? Would it not be easier to just have a switch in group settings to say "disallow members from seeing other member profiles", or "disallow members from messaging other members directly"? I know it can be tricky, because sometimes you want to allow it. But that’s what exception lists are for.

Fabian Pastor May 18, 2022

Mike

Please open a new suggestion.

Deleted Account May 19, 2022

MMerhab

france1 May 22, 2022

Doesn't it already exist in telegram?

Fabian Pastor May 22, 2022

france1

Read the post. No, and I quote myself in response to your question:

"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..."

Paul1149 Jun 1, 2022

This is just common sense, and should have been implemented years ago. And the current automatic archiving function only appears in settings when you have reached a certain number or frequency of DMs from unknown persons. Telegram is deciding what level of spam is acceptable, and that is unacceptable. Give the user control over his experience. Simple.

Mario Jun 28, 2022

It will also enhance Telegram security since non-contact might have malicious intentions.

Potrzebie Aug 3, 2022

Paul1149

So how many of these user ID numbers get assigned for so many throwaway accounts? If and how does that encryption take place if things are unique to each device? That means there's an exchange of data taking place somewhere, no? I'm not savvy at all but something about an IP address seems to come to mind.

Fabian Pastor Aug 3, 2022

Potrzebie

So how many of these user ID numbers get assigned for so many throwaway accounts?
- Only Telegram could knows (maybe not even they know)
> But what has that to do with the suggestion?
If and how does that encryption take place if things are unique to each device?
> What encryption? What are you talking about? Who is talking about encryption?
That means there's an exchange of data taking place somewhere, no?
> What? exchange of data? What are we talking about? I really have no clue why you answer as if someone talked about another different thing...
I'm not savvy at all but something about an IP address seems to come to mind.
> What? IP address? what has that to do with the suggestion either way?

In case it wasn't clear enough: This suggestion is just to bring into attention that the final user should be the one that decides if he want or not being poked by strangers. At the end he is the one that suffers if he engages in many public groups.

I'm sorry I trailed off into an emotional thought. Completely tangent to what we were referring to. Again, my bad.

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