Issues for large (many channels) bots

[expertsonline]

@Sunspots

A possible flow would be if a connected bot joins a new channel, using the oauth token generated when the broadcaster connected his account with the bot’s app.
It’s a nice way to say “Hey, I’ve got this channel’s explicit permission to be here”, it would be very hard for a malicious bot to do this. And access can be revoked by disconnecting the app.

I love this idea! The Mods aspect should be easy to implement as the permissions module is already present. A much higher limit/no limit in channels the bot is modded would be a welcome addition and help reduce the amount of resources bot developers need to spend on working around these limits with additional connections and proxies.

However, the way elevated mod limits are currently implemented would also need to change. Currently, if 30 messages are sent to the modded channel and one message is sent to an un-modded channel, then the bot gets IP banned as it counts as 31 messages on an un-modded channel. This forces bot developers to restrict each connection to one channel.