-- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot needs special user group)
Vandals would have fun with that, but bot group could be set up like that (e.g. "flood" group)
-- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by robots, but regular users who used some automated tool in order to make the edit
Semantics of flags are up to wiki communities. They can make it mean whatever they desire.
-- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool edit through API only
So like the bot flag (if they have the rights) :p
other suggestion that was somewhere else in thread about retroactively
matking rdits
Sounds kind of like the little known bot rollback feature minus the rollback aspect.
-- This sounds either like you are proposing the bot flag, with a minor varation in the user given semantics. Or are proposing multiple levels of bot flaggedness so that tool edits could be independently hidden in rc separate from "tool" edits.
--bawolff