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I know that maybe a Council member should open such a thread, but after following the discussion about GrogBot (which developed into a more general direction), I feel that a new thread, entirely dedicated to this topic, is justified. If any of the Council members disagree with this point of view, feel free to delete this.

To the topic: Aspirin and others came to the conclusion that there is a gap in the bots-united rules concerning bot programmers who want to join BU. Currently there are no clearly defined rules that specify which requirements a bot must meet in order to qualify for a bots-united membership. Besides, the example of POD-Bot clones like E[POD]bot and IvPBot, the authors of which have disappeared without even announcing their departure, has given rise to the question if and under which circumstances a bot can be excluded from Bots-United.

I ask all BU members, Council members and bot authors in particular, to use this thread as a public discussion platform to agree on sensible regulations concerning the two mentioned problems. I will post my own opinion later in a separate post to keep it apart from this posting, which I made as an introduction to a -hopefully- useful discussion.