It's not very ethical to actually run a bot like that to disrupt things on a live system, so it'd be grey-hat at best. Reminds me more of a classic eco-terrorist movie villain or something π Poison the water supply so they will clean up the environment, or kill off all humans in the process, thus cleaning the water supply long term. π
That said, you have a great point here, I think it could also be someone trying to force the hand of the devs to implement a UI fix for flagging. Might even be one of the devs themselves! I can easily imagine one of the prominent technically minded whales doing something like this, especially since there's been some friction between some of them recently. π