Topic on User talk:Damian Yerrick
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We should have considered the need for grandfathering while forming the policy.
I for one have no problems with extending rollbacker rights -- and subsequent bot rights -- to Damian. He's one of our oldest users and both directly and indirectly helped us clean up much of the problems left after the fork.