User blog comment:Ursuul/It goin’ down/@comment-24634078-20180131221341/@comment-28083312-20180131231628

They aren’t necessarily manual. Basically the point is so that you can do automatic edits or manual edits without having to switch from account to account if you notice light vandalism while doing bot work. Even the manual edits are typically really repetitive & simple (which is why they flood RC) & so you could argue that it is a form of edit farming. For both the fact that some edits are automatic & some are manual but simple, the principle still applies.