I have mixed feelings about this case.
So do I.
I did not want to be a "bad guy" in all this story and did not think that automation of the process is a negative thing while all the time the Humanity striving to automate everything to make life easier.
I think youve got a point here but you are making a lot of money thanks to a forum flooded with spam and you are contributing to it. Ive been reading your posts and I think if you used your intelligence to become a good poster you would be very respected on this forum and you could join the highest earning signature campaigns. In the long-term though.
You are an engineer and you have automated such a system. Could you think of automating something helpful for this forum? Like an automated way to detect shitposters? If you found a way to do it and you made a post explaining it you would earn lots of merits and that would help you to rank up easily.