On 4/28/08, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
From a technical standpoint: I agree with Brion. There are a whole host of reasons why an edit might fail (locked db's, protected pages, or even the server dying), and the bot needs to be designed to deal with that. If your bot crashes, etc. due to an edit failing: well that's your fault as a developer.
It would be nice if flagged bots were exempt from the spamfilter. Spam URLs and protected pages are the situations that my bots can't handle -- for everything else, the bot can either wait or try again.