Monday, January 10, 2011

How Not To Be Influential? Quora Spam On Mechanical Turk

There's has been much discussion in the past couple of days about how Quora can handle its recent explosive growth, avoid becoming a Yahoo Answers (i.e. full of nonsense and spam) and scale with grace. As further evidence of a growing success problem, Google's Head Spam Avenger Matt Cutts points us to the above evidence of Quora fraud through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Ironically the above Human Intelligence Task (HIT) involves voting up Internet marketer Larry Genkin's answer to the very popular and highly contested question "How do you become influential?"

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