Finding Great Domain Names with Mechanical Turk
domainpigeon.com
domainpigeon.com
Maybe a good check would be :: Does this sound like a swear word in your language?
A Swedish guy at EuroDjango con said the Finnish chosen domain http://muutu.com is a very bad swear word in Swedish.
* Checking pronouncability values are correct
Is there a sanity check step?
Can you inspect some results to check that the Mechanical Turks are not just piping in /dev/random to the results?
There are however plenty English words that resemble or is profanity in Swedish, we don't really take notice. Like kiss is the word for urine in Swedish, yet people don't raise eyebrows or giggle (or really notice) when they watch a romantic English movie or anything.
$std_human_interval=45
while true; do
sleep $std_human_interval
curl "http://mechanicalturk/answer?value=`random_gen`"
odOn a different note, I'd prefer it if Twitter names weren't mixed in with domains in the default view - perhaps it's just me, but my first priority when browsing domainpigeon is finding domains. The fact the site can be incredibly slow makes this worse, as switching to 'domains only' can be painful.
How many people trust their credit card information to a site with slow response times.
Finally I would say that your response to the slow site was rather disconcerting as well. You seem optimistic, like it's no big deal-- When users are having trouble using your product you need to sound concerned and proactive, not lazy and optimistic.
It is a big deal--half the posts in this thread are about how slow the site is. Even now when I load the home page it occasionally says page not found. I'm losing visitors and missing out on potential customers.
99% of the time Dreamhost is fantastic as the site doesn't receive enough traffic to be a problem. Unfortunately, its the 1% that's the most important and we're seeing the results of that right now.
Provided that you do something about the problem before your users become irritated at the response times...
I've been working with Dreamhost to fix the Internal Server Errors, which plague the site. Next time no shared hosting.
The 4 multiplier comes because as you said, each individual task is fairly unreliable for quality. He's testing each individual domain name across 4 people (not the same 4 people each time).
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link href:
http://www.domainpigeon.com/domains?length=6&sort_by=pro...
error:
Oops! That Page Doesn't Exist
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
Please contact support@domainpigeon.com if you have any questions or concerns.
If you get a page load error, just hit refresh in a few seconds.
Lesson learned...