Thread:Josephyr/@comment-26269130-20160201144641/@comment-9380534-20160201150537

Well, that doesn't really explain why only Staff (and VSTF/helpers) can promote themselves to bot. You can't flood RC if you're under a bot flag, and it's not like Staff check your bot to make sure it won't go on a catastrophic editing spree. So, I'm not sure why 'crats shouldn't enable/give them out by default.