[saturn]

Money quote:

> We all know that Mechanical Turk challenges the whole “Junk-in, Junk-out” dilemma and makes it more like “Always junk-out, regardless of the input process”

Couldn't be more true IMO, mturk is basically useless except for this "meta" kind of research and is a good example of a community that needed active management and positive incentives going to absolute shit in the absence of both.