[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 03-Oct-2007, at 12:28, Dale Glass wrote:
> There's a limit to the cheapness even with a completely automatic  
> bot. I'm
> pretty sure nobody would run a bot to earn $10 per month, as it's  
> far too
> easy to end up losing money on it. There has to be a minimum  
> acceptable
> profit to bother doing this, and I think it's high enough that  
> requiring a
> human to enter a captcha won't change the overall result too much.

You're still not looking at what I'm talking about.

Right now, the bot operates with no human in the loop. So it's not  
cost-effective to do anything that might require a human.

If everyone has to have a human in the loop, then it becomes cost- 
effective to do more things to make smarter buying decisions. So land  
that a bot would have bought for L$4/sm will be left, if it's low  
value land that's obviously not going to sell to any humans at a  
price that will make a profit.

So smarter human-assisted bots get more profitable than the current  
dumb bots, and the tail opens up again.