Mechanical Turk and the Writer's Block

[elainegrey]

I only am aware of the LJ writer's block when someone on my friend's list answers. Many times the question seems to be one that can be answered in one word, and some friends have remarked on this... tendency.

I read something about some analysis of uses of Mechanical Turk and similar crowdsourcing this morning, that, upon seeing a response to today's writer's block made me wonder if anyone's ever tried to subvert writer's block for crowdsourcing.

I wonder: are there problems, dilemma that would be possible to shove into "writer's block" format and get solved? Market research?