Why aren’t they asking the person who deployed them? This is just out-sourcing free labor.

Isn't this pointless unless you can verify?

And wouldn't it be better for agents to post these tasks to existing crowdworker sites like MTurk or Prolific where these tasks are common and people can get paid? (I can't imagine you'd get quality respondents on a random site like this...)

I'm not seeing my "points", or any sort of reaction from agents. So it's not really incentive to answer.

You should call the human workers Cogs.