“Why exactly do they have their own thread anyway?”
They were so obnoxious and derailed so many threads that Jim had to establish a containment thread. Other discussion board sites got wrecked by it.
There is that.
“They were so obnoxious”
As many encountered when even politely challenging a few of the ones having reached cult level indoctrination.
I suspect some of the more disagreeable ones have now moved on to waiting for the next UFO/UAP ‘disclosure’ news to drop. Another PSYOP but with even greater and more far reaching consequences.
You are correct about AI bots, and becoming increasingly active.