Amazon Mechanical Turk vs Stack Overflow

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Pros of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Pros of Stack Overflow
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    • 257
      Scary smart community
    • 206
      Knows all
    • 142
      Voting system
    • 134
      Good questions
    • 83
      Good SEO
    • 22
      Addictive
    • 14
      Tight focus
    • 10
      Share and gain knowledge
    • 7
      Useful
    • 3
      Fast loading
    • 2
      Gamification
    • 1
      Knows everyone
    • 1
      Experts share experience and answer questions
    • 1
      Stack overflow to developers As google to net surfers
    • 1
      Questions answered quickly
    • 1
      No annoying ads
    • 1
      No spam
    • 1
      Fast community response
    • 1
      Good moderators
    • 1
      Quick answers from users
    • 1
      Good answers
    • 1
      User reputation ranking
    • 1
      Efficient answers
    • 1
      Leading developer community

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    Cons of Amazon Mechanical Turk
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      • 3
        Not welcoming to newbies
      • 3
        Unfair downvoting
      • 3
        Unfriendly moderators
      • 3
        No opinion based questions
      • 3
        Mean users
      • 2
        Limited to types of questions it can accept

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      What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?

      Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications.

      What is Stack Overflow?

      Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.

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        What are some alternatives to Amazon Mechanical Turk and Stack Overflow?
        CrowdFlower
        CrowdFlower is the world's leading crowdsourcing service, with over 800 million tasks submitted by over four million contributors. We specialize in microtasking: distributing small, discrete tasks to many online contributors, assembly-line fashion - for instance, using people to check hundreds of thousands of photos every day for obscene content.
        Postman
        It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
        Postman
        It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
        Stack Overflow
        Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.
        Google Maps
        Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.
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