Archive for May, 2010
Why Mechanical Turk will fail and how to save it
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Mechanical Turk has been a topic that a lot of people are talking about, however having been in the Beta status for five years it has almost no improvement in the interface and business model. Having been working on it as a worker and also as a requester (alright, I go ahead and admit that I also tried to submit garbage to the requesters just to test if they can catch me, you can also call me a former scammer), I focused on observing the “society” of MTurk and in this article I am going to talk about why this (I mean, Yes, Mechanical Turk) will fail and how it can be saved. The take home message of this the article is: Crowdsourcing is an economical issue, not a technical issue, the team should focus on a better interacting schema between the Turkers, the Requesters and, finally, keep themselves out of the game.
