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Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Thanks. I wonder what would be the intent of such "bots", just to wreak havoc and cause trouble within a website?

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Most of the time the goal is to spread ads/spam.

For instance, a lot of bots will register and create posts with a link to some product.

THere's also the theory that if they post about some item enough on the Internet so that search engine crawlers find it that it will be placed higher in search results.

If you're selling junk, you would want your junk to be at the top of the first page when people search for that particular junk. If there are 10,000 websites that have links to your junk, but the next nearest similar junk is only on 2,000 websites, then your junk will feature more prominently in search results for "junk".