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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by user24 on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @06:16AM (#2304567)
looks like there's a need for a mturk preferred worker aggregation service.
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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by patio11 on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:02AM (#2304709)
Seriously, for being a fire-and-forget API to the lowest possible level of human tasks, it requires a heck of a lot of hands on management, including arguing with identifiable people over two cents. (YOU DIDN'T SAY TO TURN OFF CAPS. I wish I were exaggerating.)

I ended up writing off five hours to goodwill when I did a project with a $100 turking component for a client. To use a line favored by my old Indian colleagues: if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Lesson learned.

Next time I will just find a freelancer with a high tolerance for repetition.

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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by todayiamme on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @09:26AM (#2304891)
>>>Next time I will just find a freelancer with a high tolerance for repetition.<<<

Can you shoot me an email when you do?

I have the ominous feeling that it will be mind numbingly boring, but nonetheless money is money.

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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by davidu on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:31AM (#2304667)
it's called crowdflower.
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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by wizard_2 on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:23AM (#2304739)
These guys constantly prove they know how to manage the kinds of problems Turk and other sources bring to the table.
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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by pault on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:15AM (#2304642)
Until someone uses mturk to spam your ratings.
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Re:Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk by barefoot on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:59AM (#2304703)
Does this actually happen?
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