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Reputation & ranks

Kwitka helps grow a living community, not just remove spam. Active and helpful members accumulate reputation and climb through ranks; offenders receive warnings.

How it works

A member earns reputation for useful activity in the chat. As it grows, the rank changes automatically. The rank is shown as the member’s title right in the group — a visible sign of their contribution.

Command Description
/myrep My reputation and current rank
/toprep, /top rep Top members by reputation (Admin)
/top active Top most active members (Admin)

A title-rank from 5 points

A visible title-rank is assigned from 5 points of reputation. Before that a member has the starting “Observer” rank without a title.

Ranks

Points Rank
0 🧐 Observer
5 👍 Helper
10 🙂 Experienced
15 ⭐ Activist
20 🌟 Connoisseur
25 🔬 Researcher
30 🦾 Master
40 🎓 Expert
50 💎 Mentor
65 🧠 Sage
80 🔥 Community leader
100 👑 Legend
200 🛡️ Group guardian
300 🏛️ Elder
500 🌌 Oracle

Reputation affects the weight of reports

The higher a member’s reputation, the more weight their report (/report) about spam carries — trusted members help moderate more accurately.

Warnings

For soft moderation there is a warnings system: an admin issues a warning, the history is kept, and reaching a threshold can trigger a restriction.

Command Description
/warn Issue a warning (Admin)
/unwarn Remove a warning (Admin)
/warns Warning history (Admin)

Trust

Verified members can be granted trusted status (/trust) — so automatic checks do not bother them.

Honorary admins & content filters

When the reputation system is enabled, members with a custom honorary title (e.g. “volunteer”) but no real moderation rights are treated as regular members by default — so their posts go through the same checks.

In /settingsReputation there is an “Immunity for honorary admins” choice:

  • Off — treated as regular members (default).
  • All honorary admins — any custom title grants immunity to content filters.
  • Only “Volunteer” — immunity only for those whose title is “volunteer” (recognized in many languages).

Immunity applies to content filters only (e.g. posting payment details/cards); it does not grant access to admin commands (ban, mute).

Can rank-holders bypass the filters?

When the bot assigns a rank (rep≥5) it makes the member an administrator with a title but WITHOUT the right to delete messages. Immunity to content filters is decided exactly by the delete-messages right — that is how real moderators are told apart from honorary ones (title only).

  • “Off” (default) or “Volunteer” → rank-holders are not immune; their card numbers/stop-words are checked like everyone's.
  • “Admin title”/“Any title” → immunity is granted to any title, including ranks. To immunize only volunteers, pick “Volunteer”.

Immunity never grants access to commands (ban/mute) — it is only a content-filter exemption.

Ranks and levels — the difference

These are two separate axes, easy to confuse:

  • 🏅 Rank (Observer/Helper…) — for reputation: when others thank you (reply to a message: thanks, + or rep). Shown as a green title (from 5 points) and in /top rep.
  • Level (lvl.N) — for activity (message count): lvl.1=10, lvl.2=30, lvl.3=60. Shown in /top active.

In short: level = how much you talk, rank = how much you're valued. So an active member may be lvl.1 but rank “Observer” (few thanks), and vice versa.

Custom ranks (names + thresholds) (/settings → Reputation): define your own ladder with threshold=name lines — both the thresholds and the names are yours. E.g. 0=Observer, 20=Helper, 50=Experienced, 100=Active. The rung with the highest threshold ≤ your reputation applies.

Grey tags: the bot can give active members without a rank a grey lvl.N tag (without making them admins) — this needs the “Manage tags” right.

Who appears on the /top board

/settingsReputation → “🏅 Who's on the /top board” controls who shows in the public /top (both ranks and levels):

  • Except owner & admins (default) — only regular members compete; the owner and real admins (with delete/restrict rights) are hidden from the public board.
  • Except owner — admins stay on the board, only the owner is hidden.
  • Everyone — all are shown.

Honorary admins (a title badge only, no delete rights) always stay on the board — they are regular members. Excluded users still see their own /myrep and /rank.