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Title is incorrect. This is not on Mechanical Turk. Tasks like this are not allowed on MTurk as per TOS. The original tweet author says so on the thread.
by taneem 7y ago
Title is incorrect. This is not on Mechanical Turk. Tasks like this are not allowed on MTurk as per TOS. The original tweet author says so on the thread.
- maxheadroom 7y agoCorrect, the immediate reply from the author was: >heads up that this is NOT from @amazonmturk! black hat SEO/shady reputation management techniques like this are strictly against amzn's policy. this is from a competing micro task site The title makes it seem like intentional click-bait, given this.
- wnevets 7y agoor its just another kleenex situation.
- reaperducer 7y agoI didn't read it as being part of MTurk. "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service.
- tomnipotent 7y ago> "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service. In the context of crowdsourced labor, it absolutely implies Amazon.
- LocalH 7y agoThe title as presented on HN says "Mechanical Turk", not "mechanical turk".
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