The word "bot" is often used figuratively, to point out the conspicuously narrow range of interests or the biased statements of one's interlocutor. In this sense, the concept of a bot is a commonly encountered Meme.
A bot's owner can teach it to behave in a quite sociable manner, making it difficult to immediately realize that you are communicating not with a living person but with a robot.
A bot can perform any function — for example, administrative ones (channel management, user accounting and monitoring, statistics tracking, protection against vandals), entertainment ones (singing chastushkas, dancing with a tambourine, sustaining an engaging conversation), useful ones (search, lexical literacy analysis), or serve as a calculator or weather forecast service.
Websites whose goal is the collaborative creation of quality content exclude bots from the text-writing process.
In the Nizhny Novgorod Internet, bots can be encountered at virtually every turn, playing the roles of moderators and users of popular sites.