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Thanks for the feedback!

The tech team at EFF is pretty overloaded all of the time; we've hired outside contractors before but this is a project where it seems more efficient (and potentially more fun per person) to crowdsource. The same goes for HTTPS Everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere), a browser extension that I maintain where almost all of the 10,000+ XML (ugh!) http-to-https upgrade rules are contributed by volunteers.

I think EFF is in a rare position to experiment with crowdsourced programming tasks, because (most of) our contributors don't have any incentive to game the system and deliberately submit low-quality work, which decreases the usefulness of results you get from money-driven crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk. This particular experiment was far more successful than I predicted, which brings up the question of whether there is a systematic way to make crowdsourced web development effective.