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"Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog."

I'm still laughing :) wth! (My fear is that this might actually be sustainable with ads.)



This is basically the plan of The New Yorker, but with (probably) 1000s of people.


Can you elaborate?


If you don't follow this, you are in for quite a treat. Enjoy:

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/contest#finalists


For about a week a few years back, I ran a twitter bot that did essentially this for tweets powered by mechanical turk.

I enjoyed waking up every morning to an often strange political message posted by my "bot".

@CrowdWisdomBot if anyone is curious :)

Doing it with cat photos is far more clever.


I agree, that was an eye-opener example




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