[Foundation-l] Allowing bots and botstatus for SUL

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When a user has 10 bot flags to start with, I would trust such a user to do
well. Mind you ten bot flags within one project... Hmmm that makes it less
easy ... darn.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> >  There are several bots who work on almost all projects of a kind.
> >  Particularly on the smallest projects where there is no bureaucrat, it
> is
> >  not easy to get a bot status. The consequence is that on these small
> >  projects it is harder then necessary to establish if there has been
> some
> >  regular activity.
>
> True.
>
> >  When an account with more then existing 10 profiles and bot flags is
> allowed
> >  to be a SUL account, this would make vandalism and regular activity a
> lot
> >  more visible.
>
> Seems fine as long as it doesn't mean to grant the account bot flag
> automatically. We recently saw it not always a good idea. (cf.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comments/-jkb- for further
> information: despites of its title, it was rather an issue of rejected
> bot flag and its operator).
>
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