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I can't help but imagine unscrupulous bot programmers going through every possible survey and answering them quickly with garbage. Or if they monitor expected times doing parallel instances while waiting long enough to look like a human. High volume low value junk ruining things has a long history with the internet.

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Sadly there is disincentive to report bad workers on MTurk. You can block them through the MTurk system which rightfully puts their account at risk for termination. BUT Amazon sends them an email identifying you as the blocker, which causes them to go write terrible reviews of you on worker sites, which reduces the supply of workers for your HITs. So the ideal way to handle it is block them from your HIT server so at least they can't do YOUR HITs again and never report them.

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