I have something personal against spec work, and this site seems to be all about it. It's sad that this kind of behavior is becoming more standard. But, what can one do if not educate future professionals not to take it.
Google just launched prizes.org
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#53I really doubt that this is Google property. If it was, the first thing to expect would be to sign up/in with my Google account.
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>Prizes.org is offered by Slide (part of Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, USA).
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#55I signed up, and submitted an answer to a "contest"... it's pretty active, so I've now received like 30 emails spamming the hell out of my mailbox every time someone else submits an answer.
After the first 10 I disabled everything that seemed like it would cause these emails, but no change.
This sucks, please fix.
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#56This seems fairly exploitable. I post a question, and wait for answers. I create another account and answer it. I pick my own answer as the best answer, and I lose no money. I gain the information that others gave me for free.
You could say the same thing about Adsense. Stick some adverts on your website and make money by clicking on them.
Google's the worlds leading expert in click-fraud, I'm sure they can figure out if you're doing this.
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#57I think google just completed an ownership transition of this domain, and the old site remain on the air
http://who.is/domain_archive-org/prizes.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20071217101136/http://prizes.org/
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#58Screenshot when logged in: https://img.skitch.com/20110704-j2fdjyed367jcehytnqfp5mea4.p... Initial thoughts and observations: 1. It's 'Stack Overflow for the common (wo)man' with cash instead of reputation. 2. Alternative pitch: "99designs meets Yahoo Answers." 3. The top prize available at the moment awards $50. 4. The sign-up process could be a lot better. Prompting sign-up via twitter/Facebook, then prompting for…
re: 4, that is because of the namespace collision between fb and tw. ie. if I signin with my fb username and then somebody signs in with a tw account with the same username
It's not just for collision prevention. It's so that prizes users have their own login, should fb/twitter OAuth be down.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free. Perhaps it is this model they are trying to defeat. If an answerer has the opportunity to earn real money for their time, it might be theorized that they would opt for that over the karma systems. It makes sense for a greater br…
There's also the risk that small amounts of money make it less likely for experts to offer their opinion. When I'm selling my time for $250+/hour, I'm not going to put any time into a contest with a $50 (or even $250) prize; but I'm more than happy to share it for free in the right community (like HN). This is the same offline. I'll gladly give up an afternoon to help friends and family with their micro businesses, b…
Why everyone thinking about professional use cases? They did not use the term contest for nothing. For things like picking a name this could be great.
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#60This is a Google offering that only allows Facebook and Twitter sign-in. That's a bit odd; perhaps it exists for the purpose of getting people to opt their Facebook/Twitter info over to Google? More evidence for this theory: here's what Prizes asks for via Facebook Connect: …name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone… Prizes may access my dat…
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