“Recently, the RWW team was tipped off that Amazon's Mechanical Turk is currently being used for activities that are somewhat less than honest. Although they may stop short of being "fraud" in the legal sense of the word, they are certainly dishonest and unsavory. Specifically, it seems that some people have decided to use MT for ill-gotten social media gains - that is, they are paying people to bookmark, Digg, Stumble, Slashdot, etc. their web page or web site.” source...