On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:48 +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 7:39 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Rjd0060 wrote:
Ian A Holton wrote:
True, a bot would be better. It wouldn't need admin rights, would it?
To move, create, and tag for speedy, the bot should *not* need the sysop bit.
What's wrong with giving bots sysop access? Are you worried they might rise up and overthrow the human sysops?
-- Tim Starling
Damage control on programming errors, mostly.
Sounds like nonsense to me. It's not like sysops can do anything irreversible. You're just wasting the time of human sysops by making them do jobs which bots could do.
-- Tim Starling
Tim, a bot that has admin rights and could potentially move wrong pages to wrong locations if it all goes bad is creating more work for humans, not less. It's just a rule I have: Limit the power u give the machines. But maybe that's me just watching to much Matrix ;-)
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]