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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jan 14, 2016 20:52:40 GMT
But you still need to be sat at your PC 24/7, which seems like poor use of human resources. Yeah, I thought about that. But I couldn't come up with a satisfactory method for handling leave-it-and-wait like SM that did not have a fair amount of complexity - which would probably end up with confused/annoyed investors. Granted, I only mused over this on the train journey home from work, so I probably missed a few things  . What I was trying to achieve was to level the playing field, so while you are on the site at the same time as a bot, you've got a chance. However the bot does benefit from a 24 hour presence. I figured this would be sufficient, as the majority of secondary market activity I have seen tends to occur in the evenings, or around new loans, when people are more likely to be on. I'm currently collecting the data, but my impression is that much of it is midnight to 1AM (collect the 1p interest and then sell) and 6-7AM (ditto, but for people who get up early instead of staying up late). The bots, if you hadn't noticed, are currently hamstrung (ish), and need a person in attendance to wiggle the mouse and ponder the recaptcha pictures, so 24/7 working now really needs a 24/7 liveware. The bot (-type thingy) may still have an edge opening the right page, but then it's in the lap of the gods whether you need to solve a puzzle or not .. in theory the more you botted you way there, the more likely you are to get faced with a puzzle. So sayeth Google, anyway.
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