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Post by highlandtiger on Jan 11, 2016 12:20:01 GMT
Received a nice email from Tim at SS this morning regarding the use of bots. They are aware of the issue and it is on the list of tasks for their IT gurus to deal with. We wait to see what develops. I assume that considering their IT staff are preparing to deal with bots, they are in the process of getting rid of them and changing their Ts&Cs accordingly Therefore anyone currently taking time ti develop a bot is ultimately wasting their time.
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Post by darkgen on Jan 11, 2016 12:37:23 GMT
Brilliant;
I'm glad it's being finally addressed otherwise I suspect it may of started to diminish their investor base.
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Post by manxfinch on Jan 11, 2016 13:10:46 GMT
Agree Darkgen - I am one of those folk who is looking to reduce my SS holding purely and simply because the SM 'appears' to have bots. SS have assured us that they are monitoring the SM for bots (and I do believe them) ... but I also believe that a preemptive zero tolerance anti-bot statement in the T&C's is critical to keep loyal investors onside.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 11, 2016 13:25:16 GMT
I am one of those folk who is looking to reduce my SS holding purely and simply because the SM 'appears' to have bots. You are going to have to explain that logic to me...
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Post by ablender on Jan 11, 2016 13:58:25 GMT
Bots are a symptom, not the cause. If lack of loans vs demand is a disease, bots are more like a secondary infection rather than a symptom.
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jan 11, 2016 14:07:58 GMT
... like a boil on the bot ... ?
(Oooo!)
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Post by ilmoro on Jan 11, 2016 14:15:23 GMT
... like a boil on the bot ... ? (Oooo!) Well, I hope they lance it soon. There's so much tedious starring at bots going on that the internet's probably going to break  Right name this one! 
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Post by ablender on Jan 11, 2016 14:15:52 GMT
sunspot I suppose you know that it is SavingStream not Saver Stream.
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Post by ilmoro on Jan 11, 2016 14:17:41 GMT
sunspot I suppose you know that it is SavingStream not Saver Stream. Goddamit, you mean this has all been about some knockoff clone site! 
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Post by jonno on Jan 11, 2016 14:31:19 GMT
... like a boil on the bot ... ? (Oooo!) Well, I hope they lance it soon. There's so much tedious starring at bots going on that the internet's probably going to break Right name this one! Two questions; 1) Grumps, is that your missus on her knees? 2) What the f**k is she doing? 
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jan 11, 2016 14:58:57 GMT
Gentlemen, desist, or we'll all get botted* off the forum  * typo |
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Post by cooling_dude on Jan 11, 2016 17:52:18 GMT
This BOTS thing has gotten ridiculous. A thread now with Naming and shaming; you know, users who are protected by SS with ***, so that then you are guessing their user names, to then shame the user who may or may not be that user? And now people are selling 0.01p of their investments to see how quick it gets snapped up………………….. seriously guys?
Today (from 09am until now – 05am) I invested a further £10,000 on top of my existing investments; all through the secondary market and I also diversified by investing £5000 in some newer loans, and selling the same amount in older loans. I don't use BOTS; just a chrome app to alert me when new loans are available & fast finders. 50% I gain, 50% of the time I miss out.
No doubt that BOTS probably do exist; but the primary reason for all this is simply because demand has far surpassed supply that is all. When there are more loans, the secondary market will become more active. However, for now if you can’t sit at a PC & wait with fast fingers then concentrate on prefunding and stop whining.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jan 11, 2016 18:19:07 GMT
Congratulations! That's more than I reinvested today (or even wanted to).
Actually I think the 1p parts probably are people testing their own bots, and it'd be nice if SS implemented some limit on how small shrapnel can get (assuming there is no way it can get aggregated again, but maybe there is?)
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Post by wysiati on Jan 11, 2016 20:08:04 GMT
On the issue of shrapnel, bot-originated or otherwise, it may be too late to deal with existing loans although these will naturally fall away (hopefully on schedule).
Certainly for anything new, is it not simply a matter of allowing loan part fragments to be put up for sale and purchased only in whole £? That would get rid of a lot of the BS activity which appears to be annoying people.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 11, 2016 20:09:38 GMT
(assuming there is no way it can get aggregated again, but maybe there is?) Yep. If there's £300 on the SM, and you buy £300, you get one £300 part - even if what was being sold was a £50 part, a £100 part, a £143.25 part, and a handful of pocket change making it up. Except, of course, nothing lingers long enough to be aggregated quite like that...
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