clyring
commented
8 years ago I wasn't previously thinking this was too important, but after thinking more about #114, there might just generally be different information we want to track for registering bots.
Should the bot registration page be accessible and usable to someone who is not logged in as a human? On it might be just a few things:
- Are you the developer of this bot?
- If not, do we care to track multiple bots per account not developed by the account owner? I'm thinking it might be best in general if only bot accounts administered by the developer be allowed to have ratings anyway. Do we even need a separate registration page for bots being used by an account, but not developed by the account owner? Of course there may be separate access control for bot sub-accounts. Feel free to chime in on this. (*The person running a bot under an account administered by the developer might not be the developer in every case.)
- Approximately how strong is this bot currently?
- Where should emails for this bot be directed? (Confirm.)
Generally I think it will be harder to find easy improvements over the vanilla WHR model for bots undergoing active development, so there might not be as much to ask about.
Should we have a standard page for registering bot accounts for developers? But the API actually doesn't distinguish between bots and non-bots almost anywhere. So maybe this isn't so important, not sure.