1000 bots will drown out the 5 real people 24/7 x 365 days a year and the volume of traffic they get will go a lot farther than 5 people at a keyboard with even the fastest typing skills. The fact that the real people viewing bot posts and not realizing is so ridiculous too. a small fraction of a percent of the viewers reading posts even have the judgement to tell when a post is a bot or a human. So yes, 1000 bots will create so much noise that the human signal from 5 people will get minimized to a weak signal if any signal.