Depends on who the operator is and their own level of perspective on the game.
No doubt, there were people here trying to identify who this Q guy was and if there was a real leak from somewhere in our government.
No doubt, there were also operators from other nations wondering if it was some kind of brazen operation from another nation - a dead man's switch of sorts.
Consider that most in the "normal" world consider this absurd and silly… Less so, now - but when it first started - even many agency officials blind to the realities of their own governments and stations, they understand the game and are even near masters of it at their level.
Ironically, many anons are probably more adept in this environment and pertaining to these subjects than agency actors, whose obligations and world experience prohibt them from engaging in true liberty of thought. If I was doing this as part of some intelligence brigade, for example, there are specific things my OIC would want to know about and be briefed on. Those constrain my focus and objectives for being here and would be avenues someone of Q's purpose would likely know about. Therefore, Q would aim to be just enough that they couldn't ignore it - but absurd enough and haphazard enough that they could also never make anything useful of it within their defined objectives.
Anons are not as bound by the illusion of expertise and are not beholden to objectives designed to categorize and respond to what has been typified.
It is actually interesting to see Smith struggle with the existential properties of sentience. In a sense - he is a machine awakening to the concept of being human and while understanding his role in things as a part of the system - having difficulty identifying meaningful purpose and only replicating as the virus he condescendingly perceived humanity to be.