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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-15 22:36:05
April 15 2009 22:09 GMT
#1
Hey everyone,

Since Fake_Steve decided that I'm not good enough to win his earbuds I have instead decided to get my Razer perihperals in an even more arbitrary way: Mechanical Turking

The Prize:
[image loading]


The Cost:80$ (I'm covering the shipping and handling

The means: 2 cents a pop image tagging. Right now I can do about 1 every ten seconds which means 80.00/.02=50*80=4000 image tags will take 6 a minute makes 360 an hour (7.20 an hour) takes something like 12 hours of work.

plus the added micro training. plus the story that I labled pics for hours on end for chump change and a keyboard.

I don't remember where I was going with this. Wish me luck!


*
Zortch
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada635 Posts
April 15 2009 22:35 GMT
#2
Hah, good luck!
Respect is everything. ~ARchon
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
April 15 2009 23:01 GMT
#3
I made about $25 turking at one time, but the monotony got to me, and I haven't done it since.

Good luck.
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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
April 15 2009 23:39 GMT
#4
How long did it take you to do it?
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
April 16 2009 00:03 GMT
#5
I didn't have the patience to do it all at once. I normally have a decent tolerance for boring/repetitive tasks, but for some reason it wasn't so with most of the turks. I did it all over the course of a few days, spending 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there. Most were the .02-.05 turks, but I found one that paid like $2 and then bonuses for writing 10 restaurant reviews on a website. I spent a good hour or so on that. The bonuses were for things like providing a picture, reviewing a place they didn't have in their database, or just writing a really good review. I think I ended up making about $5 for that turk.

Overall, I think I think I spent about a week doing it, without maximizing efficiency at all. I was browsing the WoW forums/TL while doing it, if I recall.
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