[WikiEN-l] New bot up for RFA

Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com
Tue Jan 9 16:30:12 UTC 2007


Gary Kirk wrote:
> This just occurred to me. I'm probably wrong, but there you go...
> This bot is on RfA. So surely, whatever it does, it needs sysop
> privileges. Therefore, releasing the code does nothing to help vandals
> as vandals don't have sysop accounts...
> Or is that just misguided?

Well, the code theoretically could be used to circumvent the bot, so the
argument goes.

I mean, I can't see the code, so I can't verify that, but still...

-Jeff



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