Life is grand

Having recently been hit by spam bots on this site and finding the automated solutions to be ineffective it struck me that a Comment Turk is in order. This would be a system that makes use of human comment moderation, farming it out through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Plugins could easily be built for WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger et al which submit suspicious comments to a queue on Mechanical Turk. People can then come along and approve or reject the comment, being paid a cent per moderation. With the reputation system on Mechanical Turk you could largely get around spammers gaming Comment Turk.