Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615/@comment-25464118-20150425130109

I think you misread my last post, I wasn't talking about the bot logging chat. I meant the bot would be logged into chat, and its actions could be controlled through certain commands.

Say an administrator noticed a typo that appears in a couple hundred pages (unlikely, but just an example). Now the admin has to go to your talk page, leave you a message letting you know what the typo is, where they've seen it, etc and ask for a bot run to fix it. Then the next time you login to your account you get the message and start the bot. This could come out to be hours of wasted time.

Now say I was the one maintaining the bot. Same issue, an admin finds a typo that appears on a couple hundred pages. Instead of having to leave me a message asking me to start the bot to fix it, they could simply pop into chat and run a command and the bot, without any action on my part would automatically begin to correct the typo.

Hopefully that clears up the confusion. :)