Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34326521-20150811122632

I've been meaning to get a bot for repetitive administrative tasks, but, as per Wikia's requirements, I first need community approval. Below are the reasons why a bot would be useful:


 * Bots excel at repetitive tasks that require a simple and constant task (removing one category and adding another one, deleting every article in a category, and so on)
 * Bots don't make mistakes. For example, if you want a bot to remove two categories from several articles, and some articles have those two categories, a human might accidentally overlook one, but a bot won't - it literally can't
 * Bots are faster than humans. Something that would take a human an hour to complete might take a bot five minutes or less

Drawbacks of a bot (and why they won't be a problem):

Those of you who support this endeavour, please use the template. Those of you who oppose this endeavour, please use the template. 
 * Bots are infallible as long as the human controlling them doesn't make mistakes in telling it what to do. Those of you who know me also know I am as explicit as possible, so this won't happen
 * Bots can cause real harm if the wrong person gets their hands on it. Again, those of you who know me know the admins don't do anything to harm the wiki, and the password I'll use will be impossible to guess by anyone who might want to harm the wiki
 * Bots are notoriously bad at tasks that require thought. This wouldn't be a problem because I don't intend to use the bot for every single edit