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Group members camouflage themselves with fake channels to send abusive messages in the group and make it difficult to restrict or remove it
Mattos, Jul 11, 2022 at 19:56, edited
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When joining groups, people can currently choose between sending a message from the profile that is registered in the group or sending a message as a channel that they own.

So when trying to restrict or remove the person in members list, as they are using a channel to send the message, you are not able to use the functions.

For example:

The username is @user123 and her nick is "User 123"

But she has a channel @channel456 and the nickname "Channel 456"

In the group he chooses to send as Channel 456 and when the admins try to find the person on the member list, she doesn't find it, because the real contact that is there is User 123. (Attached images with real case)

To preserve the anonymity of people who use this functionality to be able to chat in dictatorial places or who use it to ask for help in any need, I believe an improvement would be:

Once a member sends a message as a channel, that channel should automatically appear in the member list or appear in a separate channel list, so admins can click to change what that channel can and cannot send (such as not sending media) and also being able to click ban so that this channel cannot send more messages.

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Mattos Jul 11, 2022
Rüdiger
As far as I understand one reason for the idea to post as a channel was to preserve anonymity, because this is important in dictatorship states. So adding more comfort for the admins to stop abuse is ok, as long as the anonymity of the user will still be guaranteed.
I agree with you, at the time I created the issue I was quite upset that I couldn't find a way to solve the problem. I'm thinking of editing the feature request with a text that preserves the anonymity issue that you pointed, what do you think? Should I make this improvement in the text?
Rüdiger Jul 11, 2022
Mattos
I agree with you, at the time I created the issue I was quite upset that I couldn't find a way to solve the problem. I'm thinking of editing the feature request with a text that preserves the anonymity issue that you pointed, what do you think? Should I make this improvement in the text?
is it possible to edit the original text? I've never tried this. If it is possible, you could edit the text. If not I think it's better to start a new feature request, link to it in the comments section and discard this one.
Mattos Jul 11, 2022
Rüdiger
is it possible to edit the original text? I've never tried this. If it is possible, you could edit the text. If not I think it's better to start a new feature request, link to it in the comments section and discard this one.
Yes, it is possible. Haha. (when editing, the question appears that it was edited next to the publish hour and my nickname). I'll do this to keep our conversation going and in case anyone sees it in the future, they already understand why people shouldn't open up so much of people's range of vision about who owns the channel.
Mattos Jul 11, 2022
Rüdiger
is it possible to edit the original text? I've never tried this. If it is possible, you could edit the text. If not I think it's better to start a new feature request, link to it in the comments section and discard this one.
I updated the feature request text, see if you liked the final idea, that way it preserves anonymity and saves groups of abusers.
Rüdiger Jul 11, 2022
Mattos
I updated the feature request text, see if you liked the final idea, that way it preserves anonymity and saves groups of abusers.
I think the idea is ok now, perhaps it will be not so easy for the devs to implement it that way - not really sure.
Let's see if others join the discussion.
Mike Aug 27, 2022
I'm upvoting this, however I think that it would be ideal to have a new tab called "Channel Posters" or something along those lines. Including them in the member list is not ideal, because it implies it's an additional member when, in fact, it is only one. On second thoughts, maybe just a filter of some kind? Would be great if we could have a "Type" filter that allows selection of "Member", "Channel", or "Administrator".
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