Can someone explain the purpose of forum bots, please?

[Magellan]

What's the point of forum bots?

I'm talking about those that just spew random nonsense. They don't advertise anything, don't try to link you into dodgy files (viruses and other malware), don't try to get your account credentials, or anything... All they do is just post stupid crap.

Why would anyone bother writing software that just goes and posts crap in forums?? I fail to see the benefit.

Thanks for giving some insight!



As one wise man once said:

"To die, to suffer the pangs of office, and sweat under a weary life, but that we know not to be wish'd. To be, or to take, when he himself makes calamity of so long a life; for in that sleep of death, the proud man's consience doth make with this regard the mind to suffer the heart-ache and enterprises of thousand natural shocks that the flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation of might in his quietus, sicklied o'er with and from the pale cast of troubles, and 'tis nobler in its exhumed existence."

And as another one once said:

"My lawn needs mowing."