Thank you for taking the time to look at the website -- especially considering it's still under development.
We felt we should say something about the reason for the website, its purpose, and its potential.
Mturk has been increasingly competitive for workers for quite some time. Mostly those who mastered the high-powered use of a few key browser extensions -- kept running constantly -- have been the ones to make decent money. The announcement of the tremendous fee increase made it clear that something had to be done to empower requesters and workers. Their interests are aligned, and together they have the ability to make the online mechanical workplace about them rather than the platform websites.
We hope to provide informative, helpful, discussion-provoking content that furthers these aligned interests of requester and worker. There is no reason there can't be a competitive marketplace of mechanical work platforms that compete against each other by offering better service at a better price to requesters and workers. There are already some alternatives website, and we hope to foster awareness and realization of the potential they offer.
Soon, we hope this website will serve as one of many pillars helping to support the community of requesters and workers everywhere.
Thank you much,
The SLiM Staff
We felt we should say something about the reason for the website, its purpose, and its potential.
Mturk has been increasingly competitive for workers for quite some time. Mostly those who mastered the high-powered use of a few key browser extensions -- kept running constantly -- have been the ones to make decent money. The announcement of the tremendous fee increase made it clear that something had to be done to empower requesters and workers. Their interests are aligned, and together they have the ability to make the online mechanical workplace about them rather than the platform websites.
We hope to provide informative, helpful, discussion-provoking content that furthers these aligned interests of requester and worker. There is no reason there can't be a competitive marketplace of mechanical work platforms that compete against each other by offering better service at a better price to requesters and workers. There are already some alternatives website, and we hope to foster awareness and realization of the potential they offer.
Soon, we hope this website will serve as one of many pillars helping to support the community of requesters and workers everywhere.
Thank you much,
The SLiM Staff