People wrote Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox
So I’ve been Turking since this whole thing began, as it turns out. I remember back when MTurk first went online and the big buzz was about all the pictures that were being put up, thousands upon thousands of H.I.T.s every second, paying a penny a pop, and all you had to do was pick whether it was a building of some kind or nothing at all. Man those were the days, because when that happened, you could literally make some serious change in a short period of time. People wrote Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that assisted in making the process much easier, reformating the pages as they were displayed, submitting and automagically loading the next H.I.T. in a single click, it was truly glorious. I moved on after that into doing a lot of transcription work for CastingWords, as I type ridiculously fast and I’m accurate too. I still pop in from time to time and grab a few bucks here, a few bucks there. And some other tasks were completed over the years, some interesting, some completely outrageous with no real sense of purpose at all. It’s something to do on occasion, and it’s nice to see MTurk survives. It never really thrived, but that’s probably not the idea anyway. It’s an experiment, one could say, that’s provided benefits to many folk that might not have anything at all. Not a lot to be made, for sure, but hell, the experience, it’s good for a short story, right?
