I’d actually been pondering asking a question myself: What does the LW community think of choosing to do this work? Specifically, its piecemeal-and-heterogenous nature seems like it might be a way to do something faintly valuable (i.e. you get paid) with the sort of free time that one can’t get around to doing anything of high value with, and so would otherwise spend on entirely frivolous tasks. [Clunky explanation here, not sure how to improve, sorry.]
I poked around a bit on the site and I think the vast majority of ways I could spend equivalent downtime would be worth more than the pennies they offer there. Even the overhead of signing up for the tasks is too costly a barrier for such tiny payouts, and that’s if you avoid the ones that require you to pass qualification tests. Plus, the number of offers asking people to re-write content in their own words just screams plagiarism.
Hmm. Given that I pretty much don’t care about the guy’s in the video concerns or arguments, maybe I should find a better link.
What’s wrong with linking to http://www.mturk.com/ ?
I’d actually been pondering asking a question myself: What does the LW community think of choosing to do this work? Specifically, its piecemeal-and-heterogenous nature seems like it might be a way to do something faintly valuable (i.e. you get paid) with the sort of free time that one can’t get around to doing anything of high value with, and so would otherwise spend on entirely frivolous tasks. [Clunky explanation here, not sure how to improve, sorry.]
I poked around a bit on the site and I think the vast majority of ways I could spend equivalent downtime would be worth more than the pennies they offer there. Even the overhead of signing up for the tasks is too costly a barrier for such tiny payouts, and that’s if you avoid the ones that require you to pass qualification tests. Plus, the number of offers asking people to re-write content in their own words just screams plagiarism.