[patrickphilips]

'In retrospect, it might have been foolish to assume that every member of an anonymous crowd would act according to our best interests.'

In my experience with crowdsourcing, most people actually will complete your task honestly and genuinely. Some may not understand it, but they generally just give back noise and cancel each other out. You'll almost always get a few malicious people though, even if their motivations aren't as straightforward as this case.

If you forget to account for this adversarial subset of folks, eventually you're gonna get got. Very cool story/use-case though.