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@JOSHUAMARTINS001 ➡️ @joshuathewriter (8026258659)Hello
We have seen a small resurgence in group ‘raids’ where a large number of accounts join a group with a few occasionally sending explicit or inflammatory content.
This falls outside our project scope for listing accounts. Many accounts used are bots. But, we wanted to make a PSA on how to handle raids where a large number of users are joining at once.
If your group is in the middle of a raid follow these steps.
1. If your group is public (has an @) do not make it private. Your group username will be stolen.
2. Go into the permissions menu under group settings and disable users ability to add members. You can also disable all users ability to send media or post messages temporarily here if content is being spammed.
3. Turn on ‘approve new members’ if your group is public.
4. If your group is private revoke the main invite link.
5. Go through every issued invite link (they should be in the group settings) and turn on the ‘approve new members’ setting or revoke the link.
6. Go through invite links assigned to admins and revoke them.
7. You should see new joins slow. Even if you don’t, begin clean-up.
8. Once the raid is over make sure to re-enable anything you’ve disabled such as allowing users to add other members or post.
It will still be slightly annoying and require some clean up, but these steps should help minimize the impact of these sorts of trolls.
We have seen a small resurgence in group ‘raids’ where a large number of accounts join a group with a few occasionally sending explicit or inflammatory content.
This falls outside our project scope for listing accounts. Many accounts used are bots. But, we wanted to make a PSA on how to handle raids where a large number of users are joining at once.
If your group is in the middle of a raid follow these steps.
1. If your group is public (has an @) do not make it private. Your group username will be stolen.
2. Go into the permissions menu under group settings and disable users ability to add members. You can also disable all users ability to send media or post messages temporarily here if content is being spammed.
3. Turn on ‘approve new members’ if your group is public.
4. If your group is private revoke the main invite link.
5. Go through every issued invite link (they should be in the group settings) and turn on the ‘approve new members’ setting or revoke the link.
6. Go through invite links assigned to admins and revoke them.
7. You should see new joins slow. Even if you don’t, begin clean-up.
8. Once the raid is over make sure to re-enable anything you’ve disabled such as allowing users to add other members or post.
It will still be slightly annoying and require some clean up, but these steps should help minimize the impact of these sorts of trolls.
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