Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam.

Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by iwwr on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:31AM (#2015641)

Last I checked, MTurk still accepted only US credit cards. This puts a dent in the potential size of the ecosystem.

If the purpose is dirt-cheap labor, they should open up the door to markets where $cents matter.

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Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by thetable on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:18AM (#2015801)

I'm pretty sure I recently used a non-US credit card to pay for MTurk. They require you live in the US, but they don't seem to verify that.

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Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by iwwr on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:16AM (#2015889)

They verify for valid zip codes and they prune false addresses from time to time. You have to lie to Amazon, or know someone in the US.

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Re:Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. by eru on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:58AM (#2015972)

You can work from everywhere. You just have to have a US credit card to pay somebody.

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