Re:How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me
by xerophyte12932 on Friday October 24, 2014 @01:10AM
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>In any large, anonymous group, there will be a certain number of assholes. Of course it didn't work. Ask anyone involved in running an IRC channel, or an MMORPG, or a factory.
My favourite example: Twitch plays Pokemon
Or just versioning and the ability to revert, like Wikipedia has.
Probably better is something like tasks.hotosm.org's "Done" and "Reviewed" approach, and requiring accounts.
Obvious vandalism attracts a ban quickly.
They would need huge amounts of versions and then need someone manually to observe. With a single attacker would be easy, though.
if they could do the matching they would have not needed the human force.
Given the problem they were solving (reassembling images shredded into strips) they needed something where, when two strips were put together by a human, a program decided if they matched closely, and, if so, locked them together for further editing. That would constrain the workers to make forward progress. You might need an unlock capability if there was a false match, but that should take the cooperation of several people.