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Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Post by MaxGabriel »

pepijndevos wrote: post #21
pieter wrote: post #7

Might be easier to run it through Mechanical Turk

Huh? How? I googled it, and it seems to be something about freelance work?

Its 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

Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Post by aresant »

Spend your time and money to "earn" the pleasure of being more engaged & reliant on DropBox.

I bet a very high percentage of people with high referrals wind up spending ~$100/yr after burning through that 16gig.

Not trying to be a cynic - fun hack, but don't under value your time unless you want to use this as a learning experience :)

Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Post by MaxGabriel »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #29
pepijndevos wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? How? I googled it, and it seems to be something about freelance work?

Think 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.

In 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

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