Anybody else confused about the $2 tasks that we get on here? The slider suggests how interesting we find a post, but the instructions and buttons seem to hint more that we should be ranking how "legitimate" the post is. The whole thing seems a bit nuanced: - I could find something interesting that is also 100% lifted off the web - I could find the text of a post interesting, but the image might be lifted off the web because the topic might not be something the user has the ability to provide a visual of themself - On the contrary, I could find a legitimate post boring AF. There's also no quick button to search Noise with, so I might be ranking a post that somebody stole from somebody else. On top of this, I'm not sure if the slider is to help identify bad actors, or if it's training an AI to market better posts for me to see or what.
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That is one point that I have wondered about this---something uninteresting to me could interest someone else. I tried to make my judgments as impartial as I could.
I guess just do the best you can. I frequently get fooled by someone who has stolen content from someone else. Since I don’t want to verify that each and every post I read is unique by doing a Google search, I just have to trust folks not to cheat.