Imported from https://github.com/wikimedia/countervandalism-CVNBot/issues/18.

@Glaisher@github.com wrote on 17 Jan 2015:

Currently, if a sysop on the whitelist is flooding a channel with deletions, we'd have to do something like this.

Savh: CVNBot10 bot add Alan p=uz.wiktionary x=10 r=flooding
CVNBot10: Alan is already on whitelist, cannot add to bot list
Savh: CVNBot10 wl del Alan
CVNBot10: Deleted Alan from global whitelist
Savh: CVNBot10 bot add Alan p=uz.wiktionary x=10 r=flooding
CVNBot10: Added: Alan is on uz.wiktionary bot list, added by Savh until 02:05, 18 January 2015 ("flooding")
Savh: CVNBot10 wl add Alan
CVNBot10: Added: Alan is on global whitelist, added by Savh until the end of time ("No reason given")
Savh: CVNBot10 wl add Alan r=Trusted
CVNBot10: Updated: Alan is on global whitelist, added by Savh until the end of time ("Trusted")

It would be nice if we could add a user to a botlist without removing from whitelist.

@MarcoAurelioWM@github.com wrote on 3 Mar 2018 (issue 26):

Came here to report this to see that I already did reported the issue 😃
A workaround I sometimes use is to CVNBot getadmins p=<wiki> or batchgetusers although the later has made the bots to go down in the past thus I'm not using that often.