Thread:Hackey5/@comment-17897872-20150616062608/@comment-25954837-20150618123500

I asked Seth to create a bot about 2 or 3 weeks ago. He said that he didn't know how. Although a bot can have many positive effects on chat, it also interacts with the whole wiki. It will make automated edits on the wiki whether you like it or not. You can control the bot to make many repetitive edits on pages such as moving a group of pages to a new category, fixing links to disambiguation pages, or to search for misspelled words and replace them with correct ones. A bot can fill the recent changes list making it difficult to see and respond to edits made by normal users. To fix that problem, you can use a bot flag, it will hide bot edits from the recent changes list. You can always reveal the bot's edits by clicking "Show bots" in the recent changes header. If the bot will make too many repetitive edits, for example more than one edit per second, you will need to slow it down. Why? Because it can overload the Wikia's servers. To stop the bot from editing, you can block it, if you want the bot to continue making edits, just unblock it. In my opinion, I think it's good to have a bot. But you need to be responsible and look after it.