Thread:User talk:Blue/Botting/reply (14)

Sure, there won't be much controversy until someone else finds out you mothballed and locked the chicken coop and effectively relegated dispute resolution to the mods completely. Not that I think that's necessarily a bad idea, just that it shouldn't be done like this, because this will backfire badly.

I dislike the practice of botting oneself to make repetitive changes immensely. Not a lot of people are going to bother checking RC with bot edits, and it forces them to wade through the actual bot edits like Pibot. Even if it's just something uncontroversial, like for example the hotstubcat thing, it means no-one is going to check those edits for any mistakes. And then there's the more controversial stuff, like awarding brainstars and deleting articles. (and also the completely illogical, like bumping a thread as a bot)

The other reason I dislike it is that making bot edits means you're not involving the community, it just screams bad faith to me, like you're trying to stealthily force the articles to your version.

And if anyone is bothered by an editor cluttering up their RC with boring edits, they can fork off and make WIGO:CP-wiki.