Unless you happen to be the most evil person on the planet, someone else is always behaving worse. It's meaningless to bring up. Even the most benign form of t

Unless you happen to be the most evil person on the planet, someone else is always behaving worse. It's meaningless to bring up. Even the most benign form of this sort of study is wasting people's time. Bots clearly got detected and reported, which presumably means humans are busy expending effort dealing with this study, without agreeing to it or being compensated. Sure, maybe this was small scale, but the next researchers may not care about other people wasting a few man years of effort dealing with their research. It's better to nip this nonsense in the bud.