Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-171752-20181005181601/@comment-24155515-20181007210449

Tupka217 wrote: Tiffany The Cookie Eater Anderson Scribblenaut wrote: i'm creating bot since i am not admin but don't ban me but the bot is not functioning until i set it up. If you're not an admin, you can't use bots, as the bot needs to be an admin too. Bots are a tool for admins, not regular users. Um, what? Did I miss something? (Or am I misunderstanding something?) I requested bot approval when I wasn't an admin on the wiki my bot is approved on (though on that front I guess something could have changed since 2013, though the bot help page doesn't list changes to the approval process). The bot itself is also not an admin unless I specifically add the user right because I need it to do something that requires admin rights, and I take the right away right after. (Also, I used AWB on a different (still-not-admin) account before getting bot approval, too; most of the reason for the bot approval was honestly just to hide the bot from recent changes by default.)