One thing we learned from launching FaceStat is that if you let users upload images, they will upload something inappropriate.
It’s not a trivial problem to solve. Machine learning algorithms aren’t good enough to be trustworthy, but users expect their images to be available immediately. FaceStat doesn’t have enough volume to justify hiring a person to sit around the clock checking every uploaded image. But even if it did, there has got to be a better way right?
With a little help from CrowdSifter, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a perfect solution. Through its simple REST and JavaScript API’s, CrowdSifter makes it incredibly easy to moderate user generated content.
We’re really excited about this product, and hope others will find it as useful as we have. In fact, we will moderate 1000 images from your site for free.
Watch a one minute video of CrowdSifter in action after the fold.
CAUTION: this video contains brief and pixelated nudity…
Daniel Riveong
Hey Guys,
So I’m curious: Are you approaching white-labeled social networking community companies about this? I can imagine a need for moderation management tools like this one (if they don’t already exist via some other competitor)?
If you can create a deck on it with sample case studies (or even scenarios), I’ll be happy to forward it other social media consultants and agencies.
Additionally, if there’s a way to do this with some sort of API between the social network/community and CrowdSifter (with some sort of usage-based payment) that would be “rockin’” as the kids say these days.
Lookin’ forward to the MacBook Pro competition. I’ll be training.
Daniel