# Administering chat rooms
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When you create a chat room, you automatically become the room's administrator. Chat room administrators can perform a number of tasks, such as adding members.

For more information about creating chat rooms, see [Creating chat rooms](create-chat-room.md).

The following sections list and describe the tasks that administrators can complete. Expand them to learn more.

**Topics**
+ [Adding members to a chat room](chat-add-members.md)
+ [Promoting members to administrator](chat-promote.md)
+ [Adding webhooks to a chat room](chat-webhooks.md)
+ [Adding chat bots to chat rooms](add-chat-bot.md)
+ [Editing a chat room](edit-chat-room.md)
+ [Deleting a chat room](#delete-chat-room)

## Deleting a chat room
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Chat room administrators can delete chat rooms at any time. Deleting a chat room also deletes all messages and other data, such as attachments. Deletions are permanent. You can't undo them.

**To delete a chat room**

1. In the sidebar, open the chat room.

1. Choose the ellipsis menu located to the right of the chat room name, then choose **Delete chat room**.

1. Choose **Delete**.