On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. In fact, it could (possibly) even change the way bots are done altogether. Right now bots are put on separate bot accounts so that if they are compromised the main user account is still secure (and also so that the permissions are separated). OAuth could change this by allowing bots to operate directly under the user's account.
I don't think that's something we really want to do. Granting bot permissions hides someone from RecentChanges by default, which you wouldn't want as a normal user (well you might, but I don't think communities would).
Indeed. Communities also want separate bot accounts so it's easy to tell what contributions are automated and so bots can be blocked without blocking their operators.
-Madman