Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5558012-20150904163116/@comment-5558012-20150911015626

Fandyllic wrote: The idea of giving admins or bureaucrats the ability to give bot flag rights was brought up at the Community Connect AMA. It's on their radar, but a discussion about guidelines for under what circumstances they would allow it is still TBD.

BTW, there was a time when bureaucrats did have the ability to grant bot flag without staff permission, but it was back in the mists of time. If the ability was given out, it's something I believe only Bureaucrats should have. I can understand being cautious about bot flags, but I don't see the problem giving them out to long established users. I've spent way too much time on wikis to throw it away by misusing a tool.

Was there a reasoning for that change?