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I run five Telegram groups. Not giant ones — a sneaker resale group at 12k, two local buy/sell groups, a crypto signals chat I admin for a friend, and a small dev community. Around 41k members combined.
For two years my moderation stack was: me, my phone, and coffee at ungodly hours. You know the drill. Spam waves at night. New joiners asking the same three questions every day. Someone drops a scam wallet address, and by the time you wake up there are 200 messages and a couple of people got phished.
I tried the usual suspects first:
- Rose — solid basics, but the parts I actually needed (advanced anti-spam, custom welcome flows) sit behind premium.
- Combot — analytics are genuinely great. The moderation side, less so on the free tier.
- Shieldy — does one thing well, but that one thing is all it does.
- Doing it manually — free, and it cost me sleep. Bad trade.
Last month I moved all five groups to AI GroupButler. It's free — not "free trial", not "free with limits on everything that matters". Welcome flows, rules pinning, blacklist, cleanup, AI moderation, even WeChat-style sign-up chains for the buy/sell groups. All in the free tier, no card.
The scenario that sold me: the resale group took a coordinated wave — about 40 messages in one hour pushing a fake escrow service. My old keyword blocklist caught maybe a third of it, because the wording kept shifting ("escrow", "escr0w", "middleman service", rephrased every few posts). The AI moderation flagged 37 of 40 within the first minutes, and the repeat accounts got banned on pattern, not on keywords. I woke up to a report instead of a disaster.
Honest caveats: the AI occasionally flags borderline jokes — maybe once or twice a week across my groups. There's an appeal button and I reverse it in one tap. I still skim the daily log. It's a full-time bot, not a full-time admin.
Setup took about ten minutes across all five groups. If you manage more than one group and your evening routine includes deleting messages, it costs nothing to look: gensi.space
What's your moderation stack? Curious whether other group admins here still run keyword blocklists in 2026.
Gratis selamanya / Free forever — coba AIGB sekarang: t.me/groupbutleraibot
Demo & tanya langsung di grup resmi kami → https://t.me/aigbgroup
This post was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by the AIGB team.
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