Comments on: How to Use Amazon Mechanical Turk to Have Articles Written

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:30:12 +0000

B.C.,

I do not know why you state that people who use this method for articles are plagiarizing. If someone pays to have an article written, then the person writing the article gives up rights to the article when he/she accepts payment.

This is how many article writing companies work, including such places as oDesk, TextBroker, FreeLance, and so on. Unless the writer demands credit for writing the article, then there is nothing wrong with paying someone to write articles and publishing them as your own.

Rochelle

By: B.C.

B.C. — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:18:13 +0000

Don’t you have to give CREDIT to the author on your website??? Otherwise it is plagiarism, pure and simple. I don’t care if you did pay a nickle for it!!! If the author agrees to ghostwrite, that is different. But if a writer expressly tells you I am not giving full rights and I expected to be given credit, then you need to honor that. WRITE YOUR OWN CONTENT OR HIRE A PROFESSIONAL. Plain and simple.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:43:44 +0000

Stevie,

Kindly provide proof to back up your claims that the majority of AMT workers “whore out their services for 1% of what they are worth.”

Amazon Turk is a portal where people can willingly go to earn money. Potential workers there have the freedom to accept, or not accept, any job that they may qualify for. If they find something of interest, they can choose to do that job.

Job requesters can pay whatever they are willing, but if too low, may find that there are no workers and they will have to adjust their offerings higher. I don’t see where anyone is being “taken advantage of” with AMT.

Rochelle

By: Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:35:55 +0000

As a requester on amazon mechanical turk, I find it disturbing that anyone would exploit the talents of another for as little as .05 cents. The fact that a person would even work for that wage shows just how utterly desperate he is. How unfortunate that an American would take advantage of the poverty of another to save a few dollars while he makes a comfortable living.
Workers on AMT don’t do it for “fun,” as many would like to believe in order to justify their unethical behavior. Statistics show plainly that the majority of AMT workers have succumbed to our fractured economy and have little choice but to whore out their services for 1% of what they are worth. Shame on those of you who think that this practice of paying sweat shop wages to any human being, whether from here or abroad is acceptable or even palatable.

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By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:26:52 +0000

Dom,

As I understand it, you are giving away your rights to the article if you submit it. If it is as good as you think, keep it for yourself and submit it to an article directory (assuming you have a blog related to the article).

Rochelle

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:02:01 +0000

I just wrote an article for Amazon Turk, and I’m sitting here contemplating if I should submit it or not.

I love what I’ve wrote, and I hate to think that my “great” (at least to me article will be credited to someone else.

How do the copyrights work with Amazon Turk? Am I selling the copyrights or am I just authorizing the buyer to use my work?

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:55:19 +0000

Jeff,

Never heard of it.

Rochelle

By: Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:50:21 +0000

Rochelle,

Have you used CyberHub for articles?

Jeff

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:05:27 +0000

Jeff,

Re: Requesting articles – I don’t know if it really matters how many you request at any given time. I’ve requested as many as 20 at once. I didn’t get them all, but I got most of them. It probably depends on whether one person does them all (and either does a great or a crappy job on them), or multiple people answer your requests.

Re: Elegant Themes purchase from my link – Much appreciated : )

Rochelle

By: Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:58:20 +0000

@Alice
So, I think what I’m hearing is it’s probably NOT a good idea to request a lot of articles at one time. Still, I’ve got to give them a try. Thanks for the timely info as I have a number or sites that need steady supplies of content I no longer have the time to write myself.

@Rochelle
The Elegant themes are awesome! I don’t know if the cookie is set but I’ll make sure to use your link when I buy this week.

Jeff