Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26140710-20150501002422/@comment-452-20150501143913

The purpose in flagging editing bots as "bot" is so that their edits do not flood Special:RecentChanges.

There is no requirement to have a bot flagged like this, but it is available as a courtesy.

There is no reason for a separate "chat bot" option to exist.

If you've created a chat bot that edits a page with a log, then it is sufficient to have it marked with a normal "bot" flag so that the edits do not appear on RecentChanges.

SpongeFreddy777 wrote: So how are they actually flagged as chat bots not standard bots? Where have you seen them flagged as "chat bots"?