Chat and forum-topic commands

These commands manage the chat and the routes used by Defendy messages. Reply to a message whenever the action relates to that message.

Pinned messages#

Reply with /pin to pin a message. /unpin removes the selected pin, /unpinall clears every pin and /repin pins a message again. Check important announcements before using /unpinall; rebuilding the list is manual.

Member reports#

A member who is not a Telegram administrator or the group owner can reply with /report to call administrators about a message. /admins calls them without requiring a reply. Avoid /admin for reports because it is also a Defendy role-assignment command.

Visibility: the member's command and the bot's administrator-mention message appear in the same group or forum topic. This is not an anonymous report, a private ticket or a message to Telegram's moderation team. For a sensitive complaint, use the private contact actually published by your community. A visible call does not prove that a moderator has read it.

Junior moderators and higher Defendy roles control reports with:

/reports
/reports on
/reports off

/reports without arguments shows the current state. The reviewed default is on when no value has been stored; check your group's actual value. Disabled reports suppress the supported calls. /report without a reply provides usage guidance rather than reporting a message.

Test from an ordinary member account: Telegram administrators and the owner are excluded by the member-report access filter. If the bot says its administrator list is out of sync, ask a Telegram administrator to review /reload and its role-replacement effect below. Do not interpret an absent response as a private case being opened.

See the member-report guide for minimum evidence, sensitive complaints and a fallback when nobody responds.

Refresh administrators#

A Telegram administrator can run /reload after Telegram administrator rights change. Use it when a newly promoted administrator is still denied by Defendy.

Important: /reload rebuilds the internal administrator, co-founder and owner roles from Telegram. Assignments made only inside Defendy within that set can be replaced. It does not reset all roles: moderator, helper and exempt-member roles are outside that set.

Revoke an invitation#

/revokelink revokes the current primary invitation. The old link cannot be restored, so find where it is published and replace it after Telegram creates a new one.

Default bot topic#

Open the target forum topic and send /settopic. It becomes the default route for features without their own topic. The current value appears under Settings → General.

Feature-specific topics#

Turn off Use global topic for the feature, open the destination topic and send:

• /setcaptchatopic for in-chat captcha;
• /setgreetingtopic for greetings;
• /setfarewelltopic for farewells;
• /setreputationtopic for reputation notifications.

Verify that a positive topic ID appears in the WebApp.

The rules interface currently displays /setrulestopic, but that command has no handler in the current bot build. Keep rules on the global topic.

Night mode#

Use /nightmode on, /nightmode off or /nightmode status; /night is the short alias. Review timezone and schedule in the Night mode guide before enabling it.

Troubleshooting#

1. Reply to the target message for pin and report actions.
2. Send topic commands inside the intended forum topic.
3. Check Defendy's Telegram administrator rights.
4. Run /reload after rights change.