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February 2017 • Mark E. Whiting, Dilrukshi Gamage, Snehalkumar S. Gaikwad, Aaron Gilbee, Shirish Goyal, Alipta Ballav, Dinesh Majeti, Nalin Chhibber, Angela Richmond…
Crowd workers are distributed and decentralized. While decentralization is\ndesigned to utilize independent judgment to promote high-quality results, it\nparadoxically undercuts behaviors and institutions that are critical to\nhigh-quality work. Reputation is one central example: crowdsourcing systems\ndepend on reputation scores from decentralized workers and requesters, but\nthese scores are notoriously inflated and uninformative. In this paper, we draw\ninspiration from historical worker guilds (e.g., in the si…