Saitama Group Admin Bot

A chat of several hundred people thrives until spammers arrive. Then an admin spends evenings deleting ads and banning accounts. Saitama was made to take this routine off your hands. 🛡

The bot describes itself as a modular multipurpose group management helper with spam shielding. It was built with anime communities in mind, and the style shows: the name of a popular anime hero and a joking "I am a hero for fun" in the profile. The catalog shows about 88 thousand users.

What "modular" means

The bot is assembled from separate blocks, each responsible for its own area. One handles protection from unwanted messages, another something else. In theory you switch on only what you need and carry no extras.

This architecture is popular among moderation bots. Its advantage is that functions can be added and removed without breaking the rest.

Where it came from

Saitama is known as an open source project written in Python. Its main repository was archived in June 2022, which means development stopped. Dozens of developers picked the code up, though, and many clones grew from it.

The practical lesson: under the name Saitama, Telegram can host either the original or a copy with different code. So add the bot only through the link in its profile. 🔍

Connecting it to your group

1. Open the bot's profile and press "Add to group".
2. Choose the group you need.
3. Make the bot an administrator.
4. Grant only the rights it needs to work.

The bot's command list in the profile is empty. Look for hints in the chat with it and in the help section, if there is one.

Which rights to grant

A good principle: the fewer rights, the safer. Spam protection usually needs the right to delete messages and restrict members. The right to appoint other admins and change group info is generally not needed for a moderation bot.

A bot with extra rights can do harm even when its owner means well: if the server is hacked, an attacker gains power over your group. ⚠️

What to know before choosing

• The project is inactive. The main codebase has not been updated since 2022.
• Hosting. The bot runs on its owner's servers, and the owner is responsible for keeping settings safe.
• Alternatives. There are many moderators, so compare several before you decide.
• Testing. Try the bot in a test group first.

Rules without which the bot is helpless

Even the best bot cannot replace clear rules. Pin a short list: what is forbidden, what counts as spam, what punishments follow. Members should know the limits in advance, or every deletion looks arbitrary.

Once a month, review the group's action log. That way you will notice if the bot deletes too much or, on the contrary, lets ads through. 📋

A chat instead of chaos

As a group grows, manual moderation soon becomes impossible. Appoint helpers from among the members, write short rules and connect a bot for the routine. Then you keep time for real conversation. 🙂