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= Problems =
== Concerns ==


Participants
-Surveillance / control
- Alienation
:: - People are not connected to the world
- People are not connected to the purpose of the job
- Moral valence
- Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency)
- Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior
- Personally bearing high risk
   
“Employer”
-  Disclosure
- Reputation
   
Platforms
-  Spam free
-  How much liability should they bear
Systemic concerns:
- Motivation (kill time, fun, make a living)
- Disclosure
- Race to the bottom
- Exploitation of workers
:: - Standard labor law
:: - Profit mainly away
:: - Child labor
- Addiction
- How to keep the work from hurting people / the internet
- Demographics
- In house employees losing jobs (but counterbalanced by more innovation?)
-  Low quality of work
- What about when governments do this?
==SOLUTIONS==
- Taxonomy
- FTC: Full disclosure (for content providers) of paid opinions
- Safe harbor – notice and takedown
- Best practices - focused at who?
- Crowd-owned platforms
- Technological/plugins
:: - 'Real Name' analogue 'Real Purpose' for disclosure
:: - Categorize employers
- Volunteer filtering
- Social tools (live chat etc.) for alienation
- Platform interoperability for reputation portability
- Plugins like Turkopticon for reviews of tasks

Revision as of 19:01, 14 January 2010