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A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn

Masters of Scale

CHAPTER

The Capture Experience in Crowd Horcing

louise wanted problems that were just the right complexity. They had to be too complex for computers, but easy enough for humans to do in a few seconds. The incentive is just this intrinsic thing. It's a blocker, and they have to do it. Those captues only took ten seconds to do, but even a ten second blo er is frustrating. And frustrating your users is never good. There's another problem with recapture. Users were actively helping achieve something, arguably something for the greater good, but they may not have been aware of it. When they found out, well, they weren't always thrilled.

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