Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-7514076-20130329230054/@comment-3335785-20130330011210

As far as I'm aware bots can run perfectly well without flags, and there is no global policy preventing them doing so. However, some wikis require flags and a level of community trust before running a bot.

There is the added advantage of the API high limits user right which allows larger API queries, in some cases higher than what an admin can query and always above what a normal user can query.