10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill.

Re:10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 d... by davidw on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @11:55AM (#313643)

Hrm. Still seems weird to me. I post here because it's pretty explicit that I do it for my own reasons. If I were to make 2 cents per post, that would make it somehow demeaning for me, I think.

It does appear to work though, so maybe that's not a valid concern for many people. I wonder how exhaustible a resource people like that are, though. If MT were to become more widely used, would it fall off a cliff as the supply of people doing it "just for the heck of it" dried up and they are forced to ask for market rates?

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Re:10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 d... by hugh on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @01:09PM (#313758)

Things do seem more boring when you're making money for it. Does this effect have a name?

I'm reminded of the first time I ever went to a casino. After an hour of exploring and putting the occasional dollar in a slot machine, I was about five dollars down. "Oh well, I thought, five dollars for an hour's entertainment is pretty good value!". Then on the next machine, I won ten bucks, and found myself thinking "An hour's work for five dollars? What a gip!"

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Re:10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 d... by shaunxcode on Thursday September 25, 2008 @08:05AM (#314770)

workers remorse.

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