Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20150505180540/@comment-1251315-20150506211433

but Wikia when he used a bot without permision. Wikia provides for a permenant ban without even a so much as a by your leave in such a case. Wikia makes no such rules, despite what some are claiming here. The people bringing up Wikia's supposed "intervention" are simply talking bullshit and really don't have a clue what they are talking about whatsoever, because Wikia don't make any such rules.

Wikia do not permaban people simply becase the use AWB on themselves, that would have resulted in a lot of people being blocked if that was the case. Wikia only cares about AWB usage if it is used to cause disruption to a wiki or if it's used to make more than 1 edit per second, which my use of it clearly didn't, so please stop making up nonsense.

And no, the wiki does not need a bot. A bot is controlled by a single operator, the very idea that a bot can sit in chat and privileged editors can simply spam commands at it is going to result in people abusing it to spam the chat, which is going to result in users being chat banned for no reason.