Outsourcing reviews with Mechanical Turk

15 Nov. 2009

People appear to be gaming review systems through Mechanical Turk. Here is a specific instance: someone is asking to buy positive reviews on vpgames.com in this shot.

Just after a glance, vpgames.com doesn't seem like the kinda place I'd buy games from anyway, but it's interesting to find the marketplace on Amazon. This particular Human Intelligence Task (HIT) is reachable here :: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=4YJM16ZMR0V2XPZ0NWKZ