Open forums are the friend to scamming workers and the enemy
to Mturk.
When hits are posted publicly for "anyone" to see,
it is just that, anyone can see them.
There are people who do not care about the quality of their
work and think that having a 95% approval ranking is good.
Others use automated programs to complete hits and work
until their account is banned.
There are even others who run sweat shops with rooms of
computers and people working nonstop on hits looking for hit information.
Open forums like reddit and mturkforum are the scourge of
the internet.
They are the ones who make this hard for everyone. Although
in recent months Amazon has been working hard to eliminate these problems, they
still exist. When a fair requester paying
gets hit by these cheaters and thieves, you see the good work disappear
from honest workers.
That's what sucks about forums. Open forums are one of the
worst enemies of Mturk.
Anyone who is a
member of one of these forums is contributing to the decline of the workplace
and encouraging this kind of detrimental behavior.
