effe iets anders wrote:
Btw: about the question what is a bot: If it sounds like a duck, if it looks like a duck, if it smells like a duck, you can act as it would be a duck. Of course we don't bother whether it is *really* a bot, or some moorhuhn that is editing vandalism very fast, it's about the type of "contributions" I was referring to of course :)
I have yet to see evidence that we have any ducks among our editors. :-)
The problem is that failure to give precise definitions opens the door to unwarranted extrapolations. We know from experience that rule-wallahs are more than willing to apply rules to situations well beyond what the original rule intended.
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