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- t3hmyth, on 08/29/2008, -2/+15Dugg for the reference to "The Turk"
Not enough people know about cool chess history... - electricwaffles, on 08/29/2008, -1/+14Never gonna work on Digg. Those users get spam-buried to high hell.
- heynoop, on 08/30/2008, -1/+10this is not 'fraud'.
this is not illegal.
this is how business is done on the internet.
you may not agree with it, but it clearly works as they are still doing it after all these years. you should be mad at the idiots who click spam links as they are the ones giving companies reasons to spam the ***** out of you. - borez, on 08/30/2008, -1/+8"Amazon's Mechanical Turk"
...Sounds bloody dangerous - Mothrog, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6Spam != fraud. Buried as inaccurate.
- MtheoryX, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6Digg has its own HIT working away everyday...burying spammy comments and submissions. And it's free.
- AngelaQ, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Even the "real jobs" on the site only pay about $1 an hour by the time they are completed.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Please, this is SO different than someone twitting their latest submit and asking for diggs?
Personally, since this came from an SEO/SEM company I think they're just peeved that their regular black/grey/polka habits are less effective than paying a AMT to do the same thing.
Buggywhip, meet horseless carriage. - jayrok, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4Kaiser Soze?
- Corvida, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I agree. I don't see it working on Digg either.
- RNEMESiS42, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Well, duh? That's what it's all about. The money is good!
- lukas88, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3This is awesome. I just put out a HIT for writing haikus for a penny each.
- lukas88, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2By it "works" you mean that people have made money doing it. At the expense of the overall quality of the internet and the sites that are exploited.
Besides, it is against the turk ToS, so technically it is all of the above that you just listed. - doctechnical, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3So there is some midget hiding in the Amazon servers, gaming the system? JPGs or it didn't happen.
- thesandmcmahon, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2This ***** is going to become self aware and kill us all.
- eeemart, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2they made a robot of jason statham's character from snatch?
- madeingermany, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1It's only American, if politicians sell their votes to lobbyists.
Selling the people's votes is very un-American! - seobro, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I have been on Mturk and seen the stumble me for a penny and DIGG me for a penny hits. Is that what we have come to?
- drgirlfriend, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Newbomb Turk??
- dopste, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Why because someone doesn't know something you put more weight on than yourself? Or because you think if you don't know it by now they will never understand it? Grow up dickweed, most people I know stopped being like that after age 14.
Thanks for the link though ;) - completerobot, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyser_S%C3%B6ze
- georgemandis, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Quality of the Internet being lowered? Was there some golden age of Internet use I missed where spam and crap didn't abound?
- waydee, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1like johnny five with a kebab knife...
- V1ncent, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Spammers go soggy in milk
- heynoop, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Right, of course people have made money doing it, because this form of 'advertising' apparently works. If not a single person clicked on spam links do you think companies would still be sending spam? It would be a waste. There would be no point.
I agree that the overall quality of the internet has been lowered due to the ones doing these things (that's obvious), but they wouldn't keep doing it if people weren't suckered in by it and gave them reasons to keep doing it. - plup, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1LOL, shut up, I can kick your ass in real life.
- c0linarcher, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Let me give you an example:
Take a look at craigslist classifieds and you will find ads that say "advertisement processing" or "professional typist" needed. The ads ask you to send $15 to someone via paypal in return for "training materials". These training materials are generally 3 pages someone typed up on Microsoft word which give the responder oh-so-valuable advice on how to create similar ads that would entice fellow suckers to send you $15 (or whatever price you think you can convince people to send you) in return for similar training materials.
Thats why i say this is distinctly American (I am too btw) - dopste, on 09/19/2008, -0/+0Probably, in that case sorry about the dickweed thing. I don't want to be hurt
- completerobot, on 08/30/2008, -2/+2It's Keyser.
- rachieheather, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0Mechanical Turk - aside from this digg and bookmark fraud seems like a good idea - but it pays less than minimum wage - does not sound reasonable at all for the reputable tasks they list.
- c0linarcher, on 08/30/2008, -3/+3How refreshingly American
- havelava, on 08/30/2008, -1/+0Sooooo somebody likes scrubs?
- KloroFormd, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1Not funny.
- graemee, on 08/30/2008, -3/+2Sounds like you need to go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
- pstadler, on 08/30/2008, -3/+1This new site, the Intelligence Exchange, has launched with a similar concept to Mechanical Turk -- but screens all its problem submitters. Generally, they're only looking for companies with large problem sets. So, the tasks on the site can be monitored more effectively. Check it out at: http://intelligence-tools.com.
- plup, on 08/30/2008, -9/+1For the ignorant ***** out there, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk -- I hate every one of you, ***** *****.
- NotOptium, on 08/30/2008, -12/+4Yeah. Digg is great.
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