TheCleanBot: Chat Cleaner

You built a chat of a few hundred people, and a week later it has more ads than conversation. Someone pastes channel links, someone lures members into shady groups, and moderators delete messages by hand at night. TheCleanBot takes that chore off your plate.

The bot's own description says it removes ads, spam, links and channel reminders. The profile name also lists protection, cleaning and hiding of join messages.

What it sweeps out of your chat

The trouble with open groups is rarely trolls. It is a steady flow of automated junk, and that is what this bot aims at.

• Ad messages. Offers of easy income, promotion and sales from random accounts.
• Spam. Repetitive mass messages, including ones in foreign languages.
• Links. Invitations to other groups and outside resources.
• Channel reminders. Calls to subscribe that members paste into every message 🧹

Connecting the bot to a group

Any moderation bot on Telegram needs rights, or it cannot delete anything. The usual order of steps looks like this.

1. Open your group settings and add the bot as a member.
2. Make it an administrator.
3. Enable the right to delete messages. Other rights are generally better left off.
4. Post a test message with a link from another account and check that it disappears.

Always test on a throwaway message before you leave the group unattended.

Hidden join notices

Whenever someone enters a group, Telegram drops a service line into the feed. In big chats there are dozens of these an hour, and they drown out real talk.

Hiding those notices keeps the feed tidy so only genuine messages remain. The bot's profile name points to this feature 👀

What a cleaner bot cannot do

Automatic cleaning is only as smart as its rules. Sometimes innocent links get caught: a member shares a useful article and the bot deletes it along with the ads.

If sharing materials is normal in your chat, tell people the rules in advance. Admins should look over what the bot removed from time to time and adjust the approach ⚠️

Building a clean chat without the stress

One bot will not replace sensible rules. Pin a short list in the group: what is allowed, what is not, what leads to a ban. Most people read it and behave.

Turn on Telegram's restrictions for newcomers, such as a delay between messages. That filters out part of the automated accounts before the bot ever sees their posts.

Guard your admin rights too: give a bot only what it needs, and do not stack every similar service in one chat, so they do not get in each other's way 🔐