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If you had the same tool that worked with a blog search API not only would I pay for it, but you could sell it to SEOs all day long. Just need to find a decent blog search API; I haven't had much luck.
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So the the Mturk worker would check the article for the email, if it's listed great, if not they might Google it?
And all for $0.03 Does that make anyone else feel a bit ick at mTurk?
But I look through reddit's "What is this thing?" subreddits to try to find what the thing is. I do that to improve my skills with search engines. (Really, try it sometime. A blurry photograph of a rusty lump of metal, with no context other than "I found this in a field" makes you think hard how to find things).
3 cents is no where near enough to make me want to do this more, or to persuade me that I'm not wasting time online, but it goes in the free money jar.
I guess there's a risk that offering money puts off more people than it attracts - more people will do something for free than if you offer a tiny payment.
Mechanical turk is abusive. It bypasses the laws that were designed to protect the most vulnerable, and it will take some time for new laws to catch up that can regulate operations like mechanical turk. Just because new services and start ups have out maneuvered the law making system does not make those services ethical. "Workers relying on such low wages and unstable employment are not likely to be able to educate t…
How in the world can you even waste your time on criticising use of a high-tech product that is available only to those with a computer and access to internet? Surely there are those who are exploited much much more than users of MT? Especially, if your own link shows that 82% of survey responders answered that the income was not essential.
This is game theory all over again. If "ethical" people wont use MT, only the bad guys will reap the benefits of the increased efficiency. Shaming people doesn't help much if the "right" option is detrimental to their incentives.
Moreover, your US-centrism is showing in full force. Don't you think that paying an Indian or Romanian 25 cents/hour is disgusting? Ok, you hired some of your friends for $12-15/h for mechanical job. So ethical. Why didn't you do that in an English-speaking part of the world where citizens live for less then $1 per day. Wouldnt it be more ethical?
If you are concerned about education of poor children: spread knowledge about moocs, help with youth coding camps, tutor people or do free seminars.
And if you are really-really concerned about the Mechanical Turk then by all means go ahead and teach people who are on MT how to earn more, that would be so much better than complaining on HN about the ethics of MT.
Are email addresses for the reporters on every article? I'd be interested to know what the stats are.
There are rarely email addresses on a particular article, it's usually a matter of tracking down the author and finding his/her email address. We ended up getting addresses for about half of the article authors.
Source is on Github: https://github.com/yahelc/emailguesser.com
I get that, but it sort of depresses me still.
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Rob, as a software engineer at google, I would not expect you to to be able to relate to those without opportunities. In fact, there is some evidence that utilizing your brain to solve technical problems can restrict its ability to empathize. Of course amazon has no gun, but that does not mean that poverty in itself is not violent. As you like science and data, here is a read for you: http://www.sciencedaily.com/rele…
FYI I am also a programmer and lack of empathy in my own life and relationships has caused me serious problems.
I've mentioned before that I would pay to use this product. If you had the same tool that worked with a blog search API not only would I pay for it, but you could sell it to SEOs all day long. Just need to find a decent blog search API; I haven't had much luck.
I've mentioned before that I would pay to use this product. If you had the same tool that worked with a blog search API not only would I pay for it, but you could sell it to SEOs all day long. Just need to find a decent blog search API; I haven't had much luck.
It is a good idea for a service, if possible please consider something like https://www.mobileworks.com/ as vincvinc mentioned below that tries to be socially responsible for crowd sourcing instead of mturk.
That said, I've actually used mechanical turk to earn money in some of my low points (was living in my car working on a startup, out of cash, crazy/long story). I didn't make US minimum wage, but if I were living in Bangladesh, for example, it would have been OK money.
"The more we can help them out by writing our story for them, the better of (sic) we’ll both be." I get that, but it sort of depresses me still.
(fixed the typo...thanks!)