I run few websites and am thinking about using HITs to boot strap social marketing and promotion of new sites. I am thinking about facebook likes, tweets, comments on my blog etc. Is it worth doing on mturk or should I take this elsewhere?
It's very worth doing. It may be against Amazon's TOS, but it doesn't stop other requesters from doing it, and, if you pay well enough, it won't stop us from doing it.
Are you talking for articles? If it's articles, would there be multiples? Or is this just a one time deal?
Aren't you from India? How did you manage to create the requester account? Until recently, they were not accepting non-US requester accounts as well. Did they changed their policy now?
I did nothing out of the ordinary. I simply clicked login as requester and was allowed to create a HIT. I have not created any HIT yet so won't know where it ultimately leads.
Paying for facebook likes is not only unethical, it violates Amazon's Terms of Service. Maybe try microworkers for this type of scam.
I don't see how paying for likes is a scam. Hate to break it to you but just about every major site does it.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-common-practice.html "Yeah, I know some people say that cheating on tests is wrong. But we all know that everyone does it, so it's okay."
It's a scam on mturk because the requester agreed to not publish: "HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion" https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies And when the requester gets caught " (ii) your remaining Prepaid HITS balance (if any) will become the property of Amazon Mechanical Turk."
That's a pretty source link, thanks for sharing -has nothing to do with what we're talking about though. Don't you have a shitty blog to post to?
His post is directly related to yours chrism77 - your argument is a fallacy and he was calling you out on it.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=scam There, if I pay for a FB like or get payed to like something on FB - what is being taken from somebody? Nothing. Whether it us unethical solely based on Amazon's TOS is a whole different matter; and in any case the only person that has anything at stake to lose is the requester. I've done HITs that were approved and payed that were far more sketchy than liking something on FB.
Companies give gifts for liking their pages. nvidia was giving Metro 2033 keys for free for liking their fb page. So if what OP is doing is unethical then why is this ethical?
I'm not sure about what the going rate here would be, since as stated it is against TOS. I know microworkers was mentioned earlier. They are mostly jobs similar to this and I do work there too (you take what you can get). However, people typically as much for this type of work at microworkers as requestors here do for surveys. This is the type of work that I only do at microworkers and people pay between 10-50 cents per job, my average being about 30 cents or so per job. I personally rarely go under 20 cents since there are usually a fairly decent variety of 30-40 cent jobs but a lot of people have been posting 10-12 cent jobs lately, so you may be good there as well. I'd post there if you're worried about TOS. (I hope its not against forum rules to talk about other places like this. I'm new, please forgive.)
It is unethical because it is misrepresentation (also a violation of Facebook TOS, FWIW). Suppose a site/picture/product has 7 people that like it, based on the FB likes. Then the owner comes on mturk and pays 500 people to like the page. Now the page has 507 likes. Now people *think* that 507 people like this page, and make their buying decision based on so many people liking the page/product/service/picture or whatever. But really only 7 people actually like it. It is unethical because the user agreed to abide by Amazon's TOS when they created their account. They also agreed to abide by Facebook's TOS when they created their account. They then chose to disregard the terms that they agreed to in order to game the system. (See chrism77's definition above)
Interesting how this shifted from being a TOS violation to a matter of personal ethics. This is the same sort of bullshit reasoning I see on MMO forums about cheating the game. I can’t believe this is still unlocked.