aim of the microworkers.com as a project was to aid brokering crowdsourcing campaigns. As the article explained,

> *In crowdsourcing platforms, there is perfect meritocracy. Especially in systems like Microworkers; age, gender, race, education, and job history do not matter, as the quality of work is all that counts; and every task is available to Users of every imaginable background. If you are capable of completing the required Microtask, you’ve got the job.*

The campaign templates on the landing page of the platform are great sources of inspiration for what could possibly be achieved through crowdsourcing: participating in market research, captioning documents and video, categorizing images, testing websites and applications, and so on. The fact that the majority of public campaigns visible on the platform are mostly employing controversial promotion techniques does not seem to be the result of the platform design or intentions.

@Hirth2011 investigated microworkers.com in order to compare it to the much better understood Amazon Mechanical Turk [@Paolacci2010; @Buhrmester2011]. They correctly identified a main difference between the portals: the payment mechanism. At the time, it was basically impossible to use MTurk without a US-based credit card, while the microworkers website allowed payments to be made with Moneybookers 