Thread:Herald of meridian/@comment-25364614-20180827113137/@comment-25364614-20180827142803

Ah. I see how this works now. If I raise a bot flag on my account, the entire account is treated like a bot and no edits will show on the recent changes. But the limited editing rate (1 edit/second) still holds for the bot.

So in other words, we'd need a separate account just for the bot for it to do its thing. Or separate bot accounts for separate scripts.

So my account getting a bot flag is the wrong approach; but this mass categorization is only semi-automatic (needs to be manually set up for a specific task).

I thought the mass categorization I attempted failed because of the limited editing rate but it turns out it was just me accidentally terminating the process partway through.

I don't know if I want to make a separate account for it. herald, do I have permission to try the mass categorization again knowing full well that it will drown the recent changes page in edits? Or would you like me to create a bot account?