Thread:Josephyr/@comment-26269130-20160201144641/@comment-4530178-20160201154418

I just asked Sannse. Her answer was that bots can be misused since bot flags hide edits on recent changes by default. So if the bot's edits are hidden in RC, which is generally so, you could miss the harmful edits done by it. They also want to check if the user knows how to use the bot and really has one.