Telegram bot permissions

To delete spam or suspicious messages, Limzo needs Delete messages. To mute or restrict offenders, Limzo needs Ban users / Restrict members.

Admin status is not optional, even for stats only: Telegram delivers group messages to a bot only once it is an admin, and admin rights are also what let Limzo read group metadata, admin lists, linked channels, member counts, and permission state. Added without admin rights, Limzo explains what it needs and leaves the group rather than sitting there collecting nothing.

Telegram group → Manage Group → Administrators → Limzo → enable the needed rights. Then reopen Limzo Settings.

While Limzo is still an admin, it keeps tracking everything it can and simply shows the affected moderation actions as unavailable until the rights are restored.

Demoting Limzo to a plain member stops moderation and reliable tracking, so it does not stay indefinitely: it sends an admin a private heads-up and steps out of the group after a 24-hour grace period. Re-promote it inside that window and nothing is lost — your settings and history stay exactly as they were.