Making good Turk tasks is a science in of in itself. Figuring out the incentive is the key, and sometimes you have to think a bit out of the box. We actually

Making good Turk tasks is a science in of in itself. Figuring out the incentive is the key, and sometimes you have to think a bit out of the box. We actually used turking at my company for some really nutty stuff, logo generation. Basically we'd give people a URL and ask them to generate a 160x40 logo for it. We had some base rules, like the background had to be solid, have no scaling artifacts etc.. We assigned each logo to five people. Our reward was essentially this: - anybody who met all the rules, got .25c - the best of all that met the rules, got a 50c bonus It took a few days for people to get the hang of it, but after that we consistently got excellent results, with some really creative stuff coming back. Yes, we were paying up to $1.50 for the logos, but we weren't using them for every site, only the really popular ones, and having it automated made it worth it. Every day we spent maybe 60 seconds picking the best logo of five submissions for a few dozen sites, everything else was automated. The product that used these by the way is NewsRoom, a pretty sexy RSS reader available on Android. All the logos you see for sites there were generated by Turkers. Anyways, finding the right equation for that task took some experimentation, but I was impressed by the results in the end.