The "mechanical Turk" term is not an ethnic slur, but instead an allusion
to a famous 18th-century chess-playing automaton, made to resemble the
upper body of a man in traditional Turkish clothing, mounted on a cabinet.
It was eventually revealed to be a fake automaton, operated by a man hidden
inside. The modern term refers to a human working a repetitive job, because
they are cheaper than developing a computer program to do the job.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk?wprov=sfla1>
On June 30, 2017 6:23:15 PM Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On 06/30/2017 07:24 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
Every edit was made by a new/separate user account that only ever makes
one edit. In most cases, these edits are useful (it's someone adding a
business POI) but in some cases they add the details to the wrong piece
of geometry.
I see. We had a couple similar issues in the past, presumably from some
kind of SaaS SEO tool that will automatically sign up new accounts for
users of the tool. But we might also be dealing with "mechanical
turk"(*) type of human work.
These tools tend to get more sophisticated in flying under our
collective radar, but usually not sophisticated enough to get the
tagging quite right and avoid adding duplicate data.
The addition of advertising copy in the changeset comment is something
I've seen a lot (often duplicated or amended by a note or description tag).
I wonder if downloading a changeset planet and feeding all changeset
comments to some sort of Bayes filter could help identify more problems.
Bye
Frederik
(*) Where I live this term would be considered really offensive towards
those who do this kind of work but it seems to be the normal term in the US?
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