Sam Korn wrote:
On 4/28/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Whether technically possible or not technically possible, Proxybot was both a sysop and a bot on the cs.wikipedia. His activity is to block ips : http://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3ALog&type...
Is that suitable that a bot also has a sysop status ?
Perhaps more pertinently, why does this bot need bot status? I don't believe being a bot hides your admin activites from the log or elsewhere. Apart from it being semantically correct, there is no reason why this bot should be flagged as such. Indeed, I can't actually imagine any circumstance where a bot needs sysop privileges to *edit*, which is the only area that botship (?) actually affects.
-- Sam
Approved bots are exempt (I remember hearing once) from some edit throttling measures aimed at discouraging the use of unauthorized bots.
Neil