[Foundation-l] Flagged bots to edit pages containing spam links

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/08, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  From a technical standpoint: I agree with Brion. There are a whole host
>  >  of reasons why an edit might fail (locked db's, protected pages, or even
>  >  the server dying), and the bot needs to be designed to deal with that. If
>  >  your bot crashes, etc. due to an edit failing: well that's your fault as a
>  >  developer.
>
>  It would be nice if flagged bots were exempt from the spamfilter.
>  Spam URLs and protected pages are the situations that my bots can't
>  handle -- for everything else, the bot can either wait or try again.

This is something that I can agree with, if a user is trusted enough
to receive the bot flag in the first place (or "trusted not to make
spam/vandalism/controversial mass edits"), we shouldn't have to worry
about spam filtering them.

--Andrew Whitworth