I am interested to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative crowdsourcing as compared to competitive crowdsourcing. When would you choose one over the other?
I am not quite sure it is possible to say generally. Do you have a particular purpose of this crowdsourcing?
It really depends on your audience and research objectives.
I have had great success with both approaches.
I'm typically using collaborative crowdsourcing when the topic is not polarizing. For example, using crowdsourcing to develop ideas for all different applications of a technology.
Use competitive crowdsourcing when the topic is polarizing in nature and has a critical number of supporters/detractors. For example, you have a limited set of resources and are trying to identify the most effective use for it.
In both cases, very important to consider the audience and demographics. Use competitive crowdsourcing only with a very motivated audience.
Overall, collaborative crowdsourcing has more use cases. Use competitive crowdsourcing in targeted situations.
No, this is a general question, Alexander. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches? If you used crowdsourcing in a project which one of these approaches did you choose and why do you think that was the best choice for your project?
Thank you Merrill and Jeremy for your answers.
I am interested to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative crowdsourcing as compared to competitive crowdsourcing. When would you choose one over the other?
Think to understand the advantages & disadvantages of Collaborative Crowdsourcing vs Competitive Crowdsourcing are to define the 2 terms & with some use cases:
Collaborative Crowdsourcing - the completion of a task by decomposing into sub-tasks & assigning the sub-tasks to different individuals / groups of individuals with different skillsets to complete the sub-tasks. This approach is in collaborative mode for all individuals / groups of individuals instead of in competitive mode. Examples of collaborative crowdsourcing include several IT projects like Open Source that develop Linux OS / Linux variants, OpenStack that develop Cloud Computing IaaS etc. You can also refer to this link for an article:
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1497-ikeda.pdf
Competitive Crowdsourcing - the selection of the best task(s) by getting individuals to share their tasks contributed so that they can compete among each others in order for their task to be selected as the best task(s). Examples of competitive crowdsourcing include:
Thank you both for your useful answers. The articles are very interesting.
Please refer the following paper
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10911359.2018.1432438
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