I mean, "out of its way" is a bit of an exaggeration. It would just scan the federated timeline every half an hour (that's if it wasn't using camouflage.
In fact, it was less intrusive than the 2,000+ Markov bots because it didn't infect threads by getting confused and replying to every post that mentioned it, just ones in direct reply.
@Kirino@lonelyowl13@ChristiJunior@MK2boogaloo@Zergling_man honestly it's comparable to something like nigbot imo, I didn't mind it nor flamer but other people did and sysrq happened to start fucking with it because he found it annoying, I can kind of see where he's coming from there.
Though obviously a deletion probably would've been enough