[Foundation-l] Bot flagging, stewards, & bureaucrats

[Neil Harris]

Sam Korn wrote:
> On 4/28/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at 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=Speciální%3ALog&type=block&user=Proxybot&page=
>>
>> 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