# kaal:claim:3128900-013

**Claim.** Signup and approval processes in centralized micro task systems are invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear, and they function as market entry barriers for micro task workers.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- centralized micro task systems

**Source quote.**

> Finally, micro workers in centralized systems are faced with invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear signup and approval processes that create market entry barriers for micro task workers.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 1 Problems in Centralized Mechanical Turk, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `381d72e85d976e2af852e8ec3bba87bc6a05ccb3349a2c3dd6f9e64de96ab4b0` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202018%20-%20Decentralized%20Mechanical%20Turk%20Through%20Verified%20Reputation.pdf

**Failure mode.** Onboarding entry barrier  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** corporate-governance, consensus-and-security, decentralization

**Keywords.** onboarding, entry-barriers, privacy, centralized-platforms

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-015

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