I like the perspective you took analyzing the bid bots. We are too quick to label behavior wrong or bad.
"The other mindbloggling thing is that people never seem to learn from history. That is, they may learn and change their approaches to how things are done, but they tend to forget about Human Nature... which seems to be eternally unchangeable."
This has been a mantra of mine for a while now. "Thechnology changes, human behavior doesn't"
I think this means each generation has the same lessons to learn.