[newrenowhore]

Just want to chime in as a regular requester here - mTurk is a major part of our business, and we've found that treating mTurk workers with respect (answering their emails promptly, communicating with them on forums, giving a fair pay rate) results in extremely high quality work that we can verify as high quality.

Our trick is to give a slightly lower base pay rate and then give bonuses to workers who provide higher quality work so they're more likely to come back. We watch our turkopticon ratings very closely to make sure we're doing right by them.

There are a lot of bad requesters and a lot of bad workers, but if you know how to use it the work can actually be immensely valuable. As a requester, having workers voluntarily post your HITs to forums and /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/ tends to drive the largest number of high quality results.