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In order to fight spam, we created a group of owners and admins to discuss moderating strategies and to manage the federation. A federation is an automatic bot controlled system to apply bans system wide in all participating groups: you can say all participating groups are sharing the same ban list making it possible to ban a spammer from all groups if they spam in one group.

You're member of a group having the OSM Federation Bot bot and being in our federation "osmallgroups".

You can use the following commands to gather information about the federation

You were banned from the federation and therefore you cannot join nor write in many OSM Telegram groups anymore? It should happen rarely but sometimes we ban the wrong person . With our group osmadmininquiries banned users get the chance to get unbanned. Just join it and tell that you were banned and you would like to know why. We will tell you and if it is was a huge misunderstanding between both sites we will unban you.

Are you a group owner, then start reading here: Adding your group to our federation system bans users automatically that were banned by federation admins or higher. You can become one of our team, becoming a super admin! So users banned through the command /fban will be also banned in all other groups which are connected to the federation automatically by a bot. You have still full control over your group and can disconnect ( /removegroup ) your group from the federation any time and then removing the bot.

You still have full control over your own group. If you no longer want your group to be in the federation you can issue the command /removegroup right from your group's chat. If you don't want OSM Federation Bot not anymore to be in your group then simply remove it.

If you are an admin of a group participating in the federation, then ping the group owner or valornaram on Telegram so they can add you as federation admin (you don't need to be a member of our group to become federation admin) allowing you to apply bans federation wide and in this way to exclude spammers from all participating groups. He will also show you how to execute your new rights and how to handle the bot.

Please just use your power to ban spammers and not "difficult" users e.g. because of another opinion, criticizing you or mapping strategies. Banning "difficult" users can harm the federation or your federation admin title.

After the group's owner has added and configured the bot, (local|federation) admins can issue the following commands to undertake specified actions inside the groups they're moderating:

In order to perform a federation ban (banning a spammer from all participating groups) via /fban you can do the following:

A spammer sent a message privately to you or to someone else:

The same applies also to the /funban command which allows you to unban a user from our federation.

Federation admins should follow our Code Of Conduct to apply a federation ban ( /fban ) and to know when to apply a federation ban: