There have been only a few people who took notice that there was a policy proposal up for discussion, so hopefully this will get a few more people interested. I've proposed a bot policy for approval. I think it's decent. Here's why: * It is descriptive and informative * Uses a lightweight approval process leaving plenty of latitude for bureaucrats * Allows administrators the use of the flood flag (proposal borrowed from Meta, where it's been working very nicely, I think). The flood flag portion is important, I think for a few reasons:
* When admins want to move 500 pages at once, it lets them not flood RC. Now that we have move-subpages, this will be important. * Extends temp bot privileges to admins - until now really only bureaucrats could to this (in fact, I think WK might be the only person who's ever done this?) for a few reasons:
* Too much trouble to ask for it * 'Crat has to be there to give & remove * There will now actually be permission in policy to let us do that
Clarifies a few things like "scripts are not bots"Right now, the only objection I can discern is that the policy is too long or unfocused or something. I don't see any way to make it shorter or otherwise remove stuff without losing valuable clarity. I suppose it is possible to split out the flood flag sections to a new page, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that all this should be on one page. If we decide to split it, we would not need a separate vote or discussion - a simple "{{support}} but split out the flood flag bits ~~~~" is all we need, I think. Thanks, Mike ---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm