Not a member of this sig campaign but it's one I've been following for a while so I thought I might add some input to the discussion.
I am new to the campaign (two payments), and it is hard for me to see how I will ever post 50 times in one week. (Of course, being somewhat of a beginner and not a programmer would make it harder for me to reach 50 "worthwhile" posts)
LOL, I doubt it's mostly programmers who are the ones making that many posts. Well, maybe some of them are.
bitmixer's bot is really something! Automating tasks is one route to making more money....
That bot really is nice! I wish other sig campaigns also had something similar. I think PrimeDice used to have a similar automated system back when its sig campaign was still open but I could be wrong.
Right, this is my only gripe for now, it's useful to look at that tracker page to see how many posts you're going to be paid for. Now you have to try to remember how many of your posts (of those listed) might have been in off-topic or shorter than 70 chars. It would be really wonderful if you could run the filter whever you print the "posts to pay number".
If I remember correctly, there are certain reasons why that would not be optimal - although I agree it would be convenient. For one, it would mean that the bot would have the scan the forums a lot more frequently. I'm not sure how this would negatively impact the workings of the sig campaign but I suppose either this could have performance implications, might not be scalable, or it could have some negative effect on the forums on a technical level:
OK. But, I have same number of posts to pay. 34 I think. I will only get payed for few because most of them are under 75 symbols. Will you add to bot to count only posts which will pay?
In order to reduce bitcointalk grabbing/parsing we analyse posts only on paying. You may see this week "New posts", but probably not all of them will be paid.