Usually, it is the WikiAnswers Staff (the Community Assistants) who decide what the WikiAnswers Bot's name is. However, on rare occasions, there is a voting among the community for the name of the new bot.
Yes, WikiAnswers employs a number of bots. See the related question below for a listing.
Anyone can answer questions on WikiAnswers. There are no bots here.
Although there are some 'bots' that help out on WikiAnswers, the general population of contributors on WikiAnswers are human.
You can prevent bots from answering your questions on WikiAnswers with useless pat answers by blocking their IP addresses as soon as you notice them.
Due to the number of questions submitted each day to WikiAnswers, a number will inevitably be neglected. These bots help clean up these questions so they have a better chance of being answered.
WikiAnswers currently uses bots to help with categorizing questions, correcting the way questions are asked, adding related link and more. These are simple tasks that can be preformed by bots with a good accuracy rating. These bots however can not answer questions nor can they give advice, this is where the contributor comes in to give WikiAnswers the human aspect.
Dennis Bots's birth name is Dennis James Bots.
WikiAnswers bots do not randomly target and flag questions; they use an algorithm to determine answers that should be flagged based on a list of inappropriate words. As with humans, bots do make mistakes, so if you come across an unwarranted flag, please remove it.
Perhaps the bots, they scan & flag anything that needs to be instantly.
So that computer bots aren't spamming the site.
WikiAnswers is a private website. It is a private company which decides what content is appropriate for its pages. Because the company decides its own policies, the supervisors are obligated to follow the company rules.
Their scripting would be constantly being examined, improved and tinkered with by those behind the scenes. However apart from that, the bots work autonomously.