Articles - What is the point?

I have an articles site. Yes, I bought it when I was new and didn't know so much and don't ask me why I keep it going except it's kind of like slowing down and watching an accident on the freeway.

I take my laptop with me and review articles when I'm doing something otherwise mindless and I see so much crap, I have to wonder...

1. What is the point of submitting these awful articles? And is there something I missed about the article being a topic that's at least somewhat related to the anchor text and links?

2. Are there really sites that publish them and if yes, then how credible is that site? Or is it just a place to get any kind of dreck published and nobody cares, including the site owner?

Here's how it goes...

If the article title has grammar or spelling errors = instant rejection.

If the first 2 sentences of the article are incomprehensible = instant rejection.

If the article isn't in English or doesn't link to an English-language site = instant rejection.

If an author is particularly awful or persistently submits articles that don't meet the guidelines, I'll go spot check other articles by the same author. If they're all similar, all that author's articles are just deleted from the database. This is a fast and easy way of clearing jobs from the queue, let me tell you. And since these dreck submissions come in bunches, I can clear out the backlog of articles waiting approval in no time. I then ban them from the system. I have also banned the entire IP range of Russia, since the worst offenders seem to originate from there.

If the links don't comply with the guidelines = instant rejection.

Even authors who are almost always good writers and compliant with the guidelines submit articles about 20% of the time that don't meet the guidelines, so I can't even go in and block approve an author.

Then there are the authors who write and ask how long it takes to get articles approved. Invariably, these are authors with multiple guideline violations.

All I can figure is owners of smaller article sites just mass approve this crap; which, IMO, makes the endeavor pretty worthless. One of these days I'll get tired of watching the train wreck and find something else to do with the domain name.