Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5558012-20150904163116/@comment-168424-20150911011017

The idea of giving admins or bureaucrats the ability to give bot flag rights was brought up at the Community Connect AMA. It's on their radar, but a discussion about guidelines for under what circumstances they would allow it is still TBD.

BTW, there was a time when bureaucrats did have the ability to grant bot flag without staff permission, but it was back in the mists of time.