What is the primary point(s) of building bots that do this kind of thing, that seemingly flood the internet with its own Great Internet Garbage Patch?
Reply All had did a podcast (ep #178) about people who are running bots on Counter-Strike that ruin the game. They tracked down a person who does this and they just basically do it to be annoying.
> [... ]what’s the point of running them? Like, what do you get out of the exercise?
> There are many reasons to run them. Most if not [all] casual players dislike bots (which is a reason to run them)
Ranking/review sites for B2B services would work with paying customers to solicit interviews and reviews from their customers, and of course only the 5 star reviews get posted.
Heck, a lot of these "bots" may actually be a real human working a table of 100 cell phones in some cheaper country.