Comments on: Mechanic Turk API has humans answering questions http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:41:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Make You Go Hmm: » How to improve Memeorandum http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-43953 Make You Go Hmm: » How to improve Memeorandum Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:32:52 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-43953 [...] Maybe something like Mechanical Turk could assist with: weeding out and/or penalizing authorities that make these type of bare bones “me too” posts. I don’t want to read them, they are a waste of my time. Unless it’s some sort of black or white poll, I really don’t care if Blogger A agrees with Blogger B and Blogger C if that’s all Blogger A’s post has to contribute, even if Blogger A is the most popular and linked-to blogger in the source list. [...] […] Maybe something like Mechanical Turk could assist with: weeding out and/or penalizing authorities that make these type of bare bones “me too” posts. I don’t want to read them, they are a waste of my time. Unless it’s some sort of black or white poll, I really don’t care if Blogger A agrees with Blogger B and Blogger C if that’s all Blogger A’s post has to contribute, even if Blogger A is the most popular and linked-to blogger in the source list. […]

]]> By: Smirch http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-39960 Smirch Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:14:17 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-39960 I spent a few hours with it. It seemed fun and a good way to earn a few exrta bucks. Unfortunately, in most of the pictures it is hard to find the business, and sometimes, it is the wrong block. I gave it my best, and they still rejected up to 50 percent of my submissions. I wrote to ask if the choice "none of the above" meant an automatic rejection, even when it is the correct choice, but there was no answer. In the end, working as fast as I could, I was able to finish 250 in one hour. Unfortunately, they rejected half, paying me 3.60 for my time. Do not waste your time with it! Pick up cans outside, you will make more money. I spent a few hours with it. It seemed fun and a good way to earn a few exrta bucks. Unfortunately, in most of the pictures it is hard to find the business, and sometimes, it is the wrong block. I gave it my best, and they still rejected up to 50 percent of my submissions. I wrote to ask if the choice “none of the above” meant an automatic rejection, even when it is the correct choice, but there was no answer. In the end, working as fast as I could, I was able to finish 250 in one hour. Unfortunately, they rejected half, paying me 3.60 for my time. Do not waste your time with it! Pick up cans outside, you will make more money.

]]> By: darkmoon http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36473 darkmoon Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:58:05 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36473 well.. I suppose it's strange. I look at some betas and see what others could call release candidates. Others are in shoddy conditions like M.Turk. The way I look at it... Turk should have never made it to public beta in this standing. This should have been strictly a closed beta, with a test group. It seems to me that they just throw it out to the world after they're done and hope they can gain something from it. I'm not saying that Google is any better, but much of their "betas" seem a lot more refined than this product. I suppose nowadays, it's all about first to market and not how crappy your code runs. Totally against old school thought, but hey. well.. I suppose it’s strange. I look at some betas and see what others could call release candidates. Others are in shoddy conditions like M.Turk. The way I look at it… Turk should have never made it to public beta in this standing. This should have been strictly a closed beta, with a test group. It seems to me that they just throw it out to the world after they’re done and hope they can gain something from it.

I’m not saying that Google is any better, but much of their “betas” seem a lot more refined than this product.

I suppose nowadays, it’s all about first to market and not how crappy your code runs. Totally against old school thought, but hey.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36451 TDavid Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:40:13 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36451 darkmoon - it's amazing how we expect more of beta these days than we probably should, isn't it? Beta used to mean something different than it means today. A lot of stuff being sent out as 'beta' is actually barely developer preview quality these days and some of the release stuff is what used to be considered beta. I used to not even want to review beta stuff because I didn't think it was fair to the project and nowadays it's commonplace to review beta. darkmoon - it’s amazing how we expect more of beta these days than we probably should, isn’t it? Beta used to mean something different than it means today. A lot of stuff being sent out as ‘beta’ is actually barely developer preview quality these days and some of the release stuff is what used to be considered beta. I used to not even want to review beta stuff because I didn’t think it was fair to the project and nowadays it’s commonplace to review beta.

]]> By: darkmoon http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36399 darkmoon Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:03:46 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051104/2576/#comment-36399 I played with it. While the Q/A part is a pretty good idea, the service behind it sucks. I know it's beta, but when they released it, they had no power behind it. It got Digg'd and the it was tremendously slow, as well as things that you clicked would work half the time, and not the other half. To me, betaware should be pretty much almost release ware and looking for the public to find the round of bugs that a developer/test team missed. While Mechanical Turk looks like a sound service, it totally turns me off with the beta being as shoddy as it was. I played with it. While the Q/A part is a pretty good idea, the service behind it sucks. I know it’s beta, but when they released it, they had no power behind it. It got Digg’d and the it was tremendously slow, as well as things that you clicked would work half the time, and not the other half.

To me, betaware should be pretty much almost release ware and looking for the public to find the round of bugs that a developer/test team missed. While Mechanical Turk looks like a sound service, it totally turns me off with the beta being as shoddy as it was.

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