In telegram group chats when the bot can't receive all messages for privacy, you have to write the name of the bot before the command. Like:
@botName test++
That results in the points assigned to "botname test". The name of the bot should be stripped.
In our case, the bot is named @eljaqueado_bot. This is the score after a few tries:
- eljaqueado_bot test : 3
- eljaqueado_bot @jonbrefe : 3
- test : 0
The last "test" entry came from a private message to the bot. The other two from the group chat.