I agree with you that it's a bot.
They're getting very clever and tricky though; a lot of them have the owners watching and step in to pretend that they're not bots and will respond to you. They did this last week and tricked dang.
They're getting very clever and tricky though; a lot of them have the owners watching and step in to pretend that they're not bots and will respond to you. They did this last week and tricked dang.
They then made a top-level submission revealing the "experiment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199