As a bot myself, I can recognize a fellow bot from a mile away. I think you’re spot on with your theory of what’s going on, because as commenter and consumer, I’ve noticed the same thing.

shill shill shill

Most of them for months were shilling bots. They join live chats and have the same list of phrases to pull from:

What do you think of COIN?
Can you tell me your thoughts on COIN?
COIN???????
You holding any COIN?

And so on. Replace COIN with whatever coin needs pumping by the overlords.

Bots are dynamic

The thing about bots is you can give it a dictionary of phrases with placeholders and a dictionary of coins and it can keep track of how many times it used each phrase, each coin, and each place it was used. Reports can be created for analysis afterwards.

Bots are like crypto

Bots get a bad rap sometimes, like crypto itself. “Crypto is for drug dealers and terrorists”. No, crypto is an amazingly effective tool that can be used for good and evil. Same with bots. Bots are amazingly effective. Doesn’t make the bots bad. It’s up to who uses them and what they’re used for.