On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jelle Zijlstra
<jelle.zijlstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That would not necessarily be a good idea. Enwiki has
some adminbots that
only perform deletions/protections/whatever and don't make any edits. They'd
never get autoconfirmed, unless the bot owner would do some otherwise
useless edits with them.
Jelle
We have a "confirmed" usergroup for that already that basically
gives
the same rights...
As for email account's we don't really use them much for anything
unless the person wants to get emails from other users or reset their
passwords so it wouldn't really matter that much,