It's not a bad analogy, @lyndsaybowes.
One thing I would point out is the lighting the apartment fires isn't necessarily intentional on the part of the bid bot owners but, regardless of intent, the end result is the same. We have a mess on ALL of our hands because of their business model.
To be frank, I do hold the bot owners accountable but to various degrees. They incurred a cost to us all by their business and believe the ethical response for them is for them to now use their stake that was acquired I the process to fix it.
Some of these bot owners may have implemented aome measure of controls to reduce the mess like a blacklist but I don't think that absolves them from the responsibility of cleanup.
Do I think it's their duty to fix this if they want to preserve their business? Yes.
Do I think they are going to do it? Hell no.
Think, we need to mark the ones that do absolutely nothing and let out flags speak to their business... All in due time.