I've been following the Linden lab Blog thread - and I had asked "what if..." I set my 'normal' account to this "scripted agent status".

I haven't seen a reply from any Surname Linden as of yet. But I have seen some interesting replies from other users, such as: "someone sending all their bots to a competitor's place to 'clog the system' and cause lag, all while not boosting their traffic." (paraphrased of course.)

So there's one way this system could be abused. Of course, based on the whole statement you mention above regarding "Second Life Resources" an Abuse Report could be filed. But if all those bot accounts are created by some anonymous user on a Basic Account, and whom has not submitted their real email address (or any other legitimate information) in the creation of the account... it becomes moot.

There is no one to discipline, save suspending or banning that (and all the other) bot account. This creates huge work for Linden lab, so those AR will likely go inactive and stall.

The issue comes down to traffic, period. Traffic is a good metric, true. But there are many, many "traffic counters" anyone can buy in-world. I use a "greeter" object that counts my traffic and I certainly don't rely on the system "traffic" data.

I personally wish "traffic" as counted by Linden lab would just die. A better "traffic" number would be "current count of agents on parcel" - but then we are talking a lot of resources and network traffic slogging the system, slowing things down.

It's a lose-lose situation the way I see it.