On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tyler Romeo
<tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. In fact, it could (possibly) even change
the way bots are done
altogether. Right now bots are put on separate bot accounts so that if they
are compromised the main user account is still secure (and also so that the
permissions are separated). OAuth could change this by allowing bots to
operate directly under the user's account.
I don't think that's something we really want to do. Granting bot
permissions hides someone from RecentChanges by default,
which you wouldn't want as a normal user (well you might, but
I don't think communities would).
Indeed. Communities also want separate bot accounts so it's easy to
tell what contributions are automated and so bots can be blocked
without blocking their operators.
-Madman