Locks
As fun as stickers, gifs, and voice messages can be, they can also cause problems in groups. For example, if your group chat is like the official Rose Support group, users are there for a specific purpose |to get help. Having users shitposting gifs and stickers can make it very difficult to get help. Or perhaps you have issues with ||Arabic spammers, and want to block any RTL messages. Whatever your need, locks are here to help.
Checking Your Group's Lock Status
By default, Rose should have nothing locked, meaning everything is available. However, if you're new to a group, you might be curious what content you are allowed to post, and what might be disabled. Or as an admin, you want to double check if you've disabled everything you need. Thankfully, it's as simple as issuing the below command:
/locks
Rose will respond with a list of all available locks with true or false values for each lock type.
Locktypes
If you want to view a list of all the content types that are available to be locked, you can issue the below command:
/locktypes
For your convenience, the list is included below for your reference, with a short description for each.
| Type of Lock | Description |
|---|---|
| all | Locks everything in the list |
| audio | Uploaded audio files |
| bot | Blocks users from adding bots to your group |
| button | Blocks users and inline bots from sending button links |
| command | Bot commands issued with / or ! |
| contact | Shared contacts (vCards, etc.) |
| document | Shared files |
| Email addresses in @.___ format | |
| forward | Forwarded messages |
| game | |
| gif | GIF images |
| location | Shared locators |
| phone | |
| photo | Images |
| poll | Voting polls |
| rtl | Any messages containing RTL characters (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) |
| sticker | Stickers |
| text | All text messages |
| url | URLs and links |
| video | Videos |
| videonote | Telegram video messages (Similar to voice messages) |
| voice | Telegram voice messages |
Configuring Locked Content Types
As we now have the above list of content available for us to lock, we can now get started with actually locking our unwanted content
Locking Content
To lock a certain type of content, simply issue the below command:
/lock <locktype>
Example Scenario
If you wanted to prevent users from sending GIFs, you would issue the below command:
/lock gif
You may also lock multiple locktypes in the same command. To do this, you would simply separate each locktype with a space. So, if you wanted to lock gifs, videos, and stickers, you would issue the below:
/lock gif video sticker
Lock Warnings
While locks will prevent a user from posting the specified content types, you may want to go a step further. This is where lock warnings come in handy. Lock warnings will issue a warning to a user whenever they try to send a content type that is locked. This setting lets users know you mean business when it comes to locks.
To enable lock warnings, issue either of the following commands:
/lockwarns on
/lockwarns yes
To disable lock warnings, either of the below can be issued:
/lockwarns off
/lockwarns no
Unlocking Content
Of course, any content type that you lock can be unlocked just as easily as you locked it. To unlock a content type, issue the below command:
/unlock <locktype>
Example Scenario
Let's refer to our example above where we wanted to lock gifs, videos, and stickers. If you wanted to unlock videos, but still keep gifs and stickers locked, you would issue the below command:
/unlock video
Just like locking content, you can also unlock multiple content types in the same way. So if you wanted to unlock gifs and stickers, you would issue the following:
/unlock gif sticker
Whitelisting URLs
You've locked URLs from your group, and nobody can send links. Great! But what if you want still want users to be able to share specific URLs, such as a link to your group's website? Don't worry, Rose can do this too with URL whitelisting. Any URLs on this whitelist will be allowed in your chat, even if you've enabled the URL locktype!
Viewing The Current Whitelist
To view a list of URLs that you currently have whitelisted, you can issue the below command:
/whitelist
Adding A Whitelist Entry
To add a URL to the whitelist, simply issue the following command:
/whitelist <URL>
Example Scenario
Let's say we wanted to whitelist the URL to the Miss Rose website. To do this, we would issue the command like shown below:
/whitelist missrose.xyz
Like adding and removing locktypes, you can also specify multiple URLs, separated by a space. Let's say we wanted to whitelist both the Miss Rose site, and the Telegram site. We would issue the below:
/whitelist missrose.xyz telegram.org
Removing A Whitelist Entry
To remove a URL from the whitelist, issue the following command:
/rmwhitelist <URL>
Example Scenario
If we wanted to remove the Telegram site from the whitelist, we would issue the command like shown:
/rmwhitelist telegram.org
Multiple URLs can be specified, just like when adding an entry. If you wanted to remove both the Miss Rose site and the Telegram site, you would issue the following command:
/rmwhitelist missrose.xyz telegram.org