Just had a thought (you know that’s dangerous).  I recently signed up to beta test a service that is paying us to get folks to fill out a captcha – of course that captcha has advertisements in it.  I’m not sure how long something like this will last, but it’s a great way for brands like Coke or Pepsi to brand themselves.

I’m setting it up on some of my main stream sites to make a few more bucks a day – but it got me thinking about how else we could use our visitors and the need for captcha filling to work for us.  Usually I need content even more than I need the dollars

You see – we quiz them.  Let’s say that they want to use a service of ours, and/or get a freebie.

Step one:  Ask them to write a short paragraph on Golden Retrievers.

Step two:  Ask them to verify if something someone else wrote appears to be a valid paragraph.

Step three:  Once what they have written is “approved” by someone else they get xyz.

No dang clue if it would work, and what they are getting would have to be pretty good for this to work.  You would probably also get plagarism, etc… but it’s something that you could certainly try.  Mix it in with something viral like forcing a twitter or something and you could fill up a large database with content over time.

Wouldn’t take a whole lot of programming skills either.  Great excuse for you to go learn PHP/MYSQL.