Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-27004366-20150220012824/@comment-24551580-20150928193538

Black Silver wrote: Yeah. But if I make a bot, can I give it a chat moderator rank? Yes, you can. If you want it to be in the bot rights group, you will need to contact staff.

Just one thing - in my experience, Wikia will generally try to dissuade you from creating new user groups, as it could have unforseen effects when Wikia changes a part of its platform.