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Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by j2d2j2d2 on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:36AM (#2015337)
I had good success stopping cheating by using images of text instead of actual text. Typing in a foreign language is not trivial if it's not something you're used to doing.

I used a python wrapper for pango-view to generate the text. I have a python module for this here: https://github.com/j2labs/pyango_view

Nothing complicated about what I'm doing but the github page shows how nice the text can really look.

Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by j2d2j2d2 on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:37AM (#2015346)
It might also be of interest that I recently posted a gist that shows how to post some basic mechanical turk tasks using Python's boto library.

https://gist.github.com/740267