OK so my previous post(s) may have sounded a bit bitchy but I just wanted to reiterate that if anyone is doing anything by hand day after day then they should probably think about automating it somehow. Even if you're spending 1 minute a day doing something, that's 6 hours a year that you could spend doing something more worthwhile. That's not mentioning the other advantages of automation:
* much better randomization for SEO and less footprints
* much easier proxier usage and no-effort retries = less footprints
* much less error prone
* no browser ID footprints (easily randomized)
* stuff can be put on cron so it happens all during the day and at random times; it continues even if you get sick or want to go to the beach. Cron is one of the greatest computing inventions ever.
* no RSI
* outsourced coding or even outsourced labour are cheap!
* automated stuff can have benefits for years. For example, I wrote the code that does my email confirmations via pop3 email literally years ago and it still works just as well today. Obviously code doesn't age and they're not about to change how the pop3 protocol works. I also automated fastmail.fm years ago, which gives me another 50+ free email domains to use for confirmations... They haven't changed their backend for years either.
* automated stuff can be scaled way beyond its original intention. Over the last few days I have found a network of about 200 freehost domains that all use the same signup scripts and backend... So doing the work once gives me 200 more domains I can abuse (no I'm not telling you the host

). Back in the day I used to spam the crap out of the 0catch family of free hosts - one signup script worked for 70+ domains in that group of hosts. I estimate I made around 6 figures spamming porn on 0catch before those domains got a blanket penalty. Total hosting cost = a couple of hours making the sign up script (I wasn't so fast at bot creation back then - now it would take me 10 mins to do a host of that difficulty).
There's no shame in not being a coder and in fact many of the richest spammers I know (6 figures+ a month) can't code for shit. However those people also treat their operation like a real business rather than a one man show, and you won't see them doing any of their own shit by hand; as soon as a process is established, it's either automated or outsourced so aforementioned spammers can do more of what they do best, which is analysis / planning / strategic thinking.
Whether you make the automation or someone else does is neither here nor there - the main point is to get machines or cheap labour doing the tedious and boring work so you can focus on your highest value tasks (which are generally learning, researching and planning).