2010
DOI: 10.1145/1869086.1869100
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Ethics and tactics of professional crowdwork

Abstract: Paid crowd workers are not just an API call---but all too often, they are treated like one.

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“…Much of the research focuses on (minimum) incentive schemes, how to deal with bad work and spammers and so on. Whilst not denying these are important issues, crowdsourcing tools tend to be somewhat biased towards the needs of the enterprise often to the detriment of the worker [3]. However, as with outsourcing we do not believe that crowdsourcing is necessarily a negative work model, it can just appear that way because, with some notable exceptions [e.g.…”
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“…Much of the research focuses on (minimum) incentive schemes, how to deal with bad work and spammers and so on. Whilst not denying these are important issues, crowdsourcing tools tend to be somewhat biased towards the needs of the enterprise often to the detriment of the worker [3]. However, as with outsourcing we do not believe that crowdsourcing is necessarily a negative work model, it can just appear that way because, with some notable exceptions [e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…with a known correct output) throughout the task can be used to both judge worker quality (and weed out spammers) and provide feedback enabling genuine workers to improve. Whilst AMT provides means to rate workers' reputations, there is no equivalent means in the tool itself of rating work requesters [3,11] despite the problem of unscrupulous requesters being well known. To compound this inequality, workers' reputations are harmed if work requesters reject their work.…”
Section: Crowdsourcing Literaturementioning
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