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Using MTurk to spam upvotes for Quora
- henning 16y agoThis guy will get more attention from being written up on Techcrunch than he would from his hare-brained spamming scheme. Good job giving him undeserved free publicity, TechCrunch.
- Andrew_Quentin 16y agoHis publicity is the side effect. I think letting us know of this kind of tactic and the problems associated with sites like Quora and possibly Hacker News and other social sorting websites was worth the disbenefit of the undeserved publicity.
- code_duck 16y agoTechCrunch simply cannot stop posting articles about Quora. There have been three or four a day for the past week... I'm not sure why, exactly. Want to get on TC? Do something related to Quora this week, not matter how insignificant. They will publish it.
- theklub 16y agoThey do this with a lot of websites, whatever they think is hot at the moment?
- citricsquid 16y agoquora instant?
- timf 16y agoThis dilution/abuse problem in voting sites (HN too)... I'd rather see each user getting a view of votes - a customized view where there is more weight given to votes coming from a user's direct and secondary networks. In general there seems to be a lack of customization for what a user thinks is signal (by way of their own votes and who they choose to pay attention to) and not what the whole community thinks is signal. That doesn't seem to ever work quite right when the population gets too big.
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- Joakal 16y agoAnyone heard any good stuff from this: http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html ? That stuff is ancient and I can't find any working examples outside of papers.
- sanxiyn 16y agoReputation is factional: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/uberfact-ultimate-social-verifier.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/uberfac... Apparently this is expensive to compute, but there must be some way to make it work.
- shalmanese 16y agoeasiest 50 cents I ever made.
- pluies 16y ago"Someone has already made reference to the Mechanical Turk HIT under the answer in question. And the answer has been “collapsed” because of the policy violation, which means that no matter how many upvotes it receives paid or unpaid it won’t show up. Repeat offenders of Quora policy are warned and then potentially blocked." And now to get rid of competitors, just open Mechanical Turk HITs to upvote their answers, report them, and watch them getting banned.
- trotsky 16y agoI guess Larry will have to wait 12-18 months for "Promoted Answers".
- numbchuckskills 16y agoTechCrunch has lost its mojo.