Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615/@comment-1251315-20150423214745

Dovahsebrom wrote: I guess I really don't understand the point of de-modding a bot. I mean... they're bots, does it really matter? Do we really need a consensus on this? As I explained above, bot edits don't show up on feeds, so could be abused (highly unlikely, but possible) to vandalise. And yes, a consensus is required because our local crats lost the ability to revoke the bot flag from existing bots (either from a bug when adding custom groups or because it was previously abused and Wikia took this ability away). Therefore, when we message Wikia, they need to see a consensus for granting and revoking the bot flag.