I recently stumbled upon a Ripple article submitted on HN [1] [2]. The discussion itself seems to be dominated by spambots. This got me thinking, how much of the comments on HN are submitted by bots? If the article got more attention, the spambots would be virtually indistinguishable from regular chatter. Who benefits from "inventing" these bots?
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922965 [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170814204950/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922965