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Might be easier to run it through Mechanical Turk
by pieter 15y ago
Might be easier to run it through Mechanical Turk
- vrikhter 15y agoDidn't think of that.
- pepijndevos 15y agoHuh? How? I googled it, and it seems to be something about freelance work?
- AdamTReineke 15y agoYou pay people to perform small tasks: in this case, join Dropbox.
- MichaelApproved 15y agoThink of it as micro-jobs. It's a service that allows you to post small tasks for a small amount of money. The pay ranges from anywhere from a few pennies to a few dollars and takes anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes to complete. I believe the parent was suggesting you post the job requesting people signup for and install Dropbox. It's a flawed idea since it violates both service's TOS.
- MaxGabriel 15y agoIn fact, 7 of the 9 specific examples of prohibited activity [1] would fit this task "HITs requiring disclosure of the Worker's identity or e-mail address, either directly or indirectly HITs requiring registration at another website or group HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something) HITs that generate "referred" site visits or click-through traffic HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results HITs that require Workers to download software" [1] https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies
- MaxGabriel 15y agoIts a service offered by Amazon where you can hire people ("crowdsource") to do simple tasks, like post a review of a service or answer a quiz or whatever. The name is based on a chess-playing 'computer' that was actually a man inside of a machine, who was outputting the machine's moves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
- bennesvig 15y agoIs it similar to Fiverr.com?