4 ms·
I often see "social media" sites hiring users (via Craigslist's writing section or Mechanical Turk) to create accounts and engage in some baseline level of part
by pie 17y ago
I often see "social media" sites hiring users (via Craigslist's writing section or Mechanical Turk) to create accounts and engage in some baseline level of participation. I know there's the old chicken-and-egg issue when working toward critical mass on a community site, but something about hiring scads of primarily-disinterested users seems a little dirty and dishonest to me.
- gommm 17y agoIt depends on your intent if it's only hiring those users to get some first users or if you hire them to have a baseline level of participation so as to get feedback and find bugs you wouldn't find otherwise....