Well, I just learned today that some of the bots on my server are evidently being monitored rather frequently, as while I was able to get one to sit there and do nothing for several minutes by simply opening a trade with them, it eventually set its status to Busy so I was no longer able to interfere with it.

It works in tandem with another bot that operates out of the same large house in Mist, so I decided to go pester the other one in the same way, and sure enough, it also set its status to busy after some time. I later noticed it was trying to farm moth scales in the Peaks, so I decided to be a nuisance further by tagging the moths before it could get to them, but after it suddenly stopped moving, I decided to lay off.

I'm kind of afraid they might actually have the nerve to report me now...