Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch in Britain [Slashdot]

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[PapaStu]

I can't wait for those doing naughty things on camera get caught...

[JSoup]

I can't wait until a few idiots band together to try and cheat the system.

[Ed Oscuro]

I can't wait until a few idiots band together to try and cheat the system.
I'm guessing this should work like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where a group of people marking things wrongly will still not beat all the legitimate answers. In that system you could get more money by simply churning out answers more quickly (which is indeed cheating) but the overall goal of the project still was met because enough people did it "right." There won't be a critical mass of players working with criminals to mark legitimate examples of lawbreaking as "crime-free," for example.

[JSoup]

I'm guessing this should work like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where a group of people marking things wrongly will still not beat all the legitimate answers. In that system you could get more money by simply churning out answers more quickly (which is indeed cheating) but the overall goal of the project still was met because enough people did it "right." There won't be a critical mass of players working with criminals to mark legitimate examples of lawbreaking as "crime-free," for example.

I was more joking at the concept of a group where one guy commits an act of minor theft while the rest of the group reports him and then they all cash in.

IE: Something that someone is likely to try, but has already been thought of by the programmers.

[badinsults]

Big brother is watching you.

[Zing]

Big brother is watching you.

Based on what I have been reading over the past years, people in the UK should be used to this by now.

[The 1 2 P]

Based on what I have been reading over the past years, people in the UK should be used to this by now.

True but on the plus side they have much lower crime rates than most other countries. In the US they have been content with mainly traffic cameras so far but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it gets taken to the next level.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Big brother is watching you.

++ungood? Magic 8-ball says, "Ask again latter... In private..."

I guess Internet Nazi's were a self-fulfilling prophesy... Kritallnacht 2K9

[Archangel]

So this is basically Night Trap 2.0?