Ha thanks for having my back! I genuinely love your project. I have been toying with get either a boox or a remarkable for ages.
FWiW I mostly read HN at it's deadest time (I'm GMT+8 local time) and I see a lot of mechanical turk comments, especially from new (green coloured) accounts.
I always look for a response (eg: yours) before flagging them as spam bots . . .