I know it looks sucky to join and see empty servers with bots, but if the server had 2 players playing in the server only, people usually pass on joining.

However when it tells u there are 5 in game (3 fAke bots), it will make u join the game .

Sure u might get disappoited for a second but if u Wait a few minutes, someone else will go "oh cool SIX people in game (now 3 regulars and 2 bots), they join and now a third guy goes omg 8 ppl in game, they join and see 4 players which is not bad , then 5,6,7, etc...
it seems like a dick move but it actually helps populate the servers in mornig and late night....

There's always that ONE guy that's the first to join the server and wait for it to fill up... Usally it's me, or passerelli...
So yeah, suck it up