A blanket prohibition may be futile but it's anything but pointless. Once Hacker News becomes nothing but bots posting stories written by bots for other bots t

A blanket prohibition may be futile but it's anything but pointless. Once Hacker News becomes nothing but bots posting stories written by bots for other bots to comment on - which is the inevitable end point of a permissive attitude towards this stuff - what even is the fucking point to any of this? SEO juice?