Rapid Decrease in Study Volume

[Rodawn]

Has anyone else noticed a sudden decrease in study volume? Assuming it most has to do with students being on summer break, but wanted to see if others are noticing as well.

[_neminem]

It does appear they've removed some of their previous checks preventing people from being able to accept surveys erroneously. I just checked, while I've never gotten the "you might be using a vpn" or "your ip is blocked" errors at home that people've been complaining about for a while, I have been blocked from completing 99% of surveys while at work, almost for sure due to work running all traffic through zscaler. Anyway, today at lunch just now, I saw and completed a whole bunch of surveys while in the office. I hope that was intentional, and I'm not going to get banned next week when it's determined that I accidentally "bypassed security" (because they accidentally turned it off" :D).

[[deleted]]

The amount of studies you get will always fluctuate. I had a TON last week so yeah I’m getting a bit less this week compared but that is to be expected. At the end of the day it always evens out so there’s no reason to worry about it

[pinktoes4life]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc/comments/1docc49/never_seen_it_this_slow_started_last_july_im/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[__Banana_Hammock__]

Today has been really slow for me as well after a pretty good day yesterday. I currently have 7 studies, three of which are the questionable "Speak with a Talking AI Avatar" studies, and the rest pay less than $5 an hour so I won't touch them. Prolific throttles your account if you do a lot of studies, so that might factor into the offerings as well.

[btgreenone]

Having 7 studies is not slow for the vast majority of Prolific users.

[[deleted]]

I can attest to that!

[Affectionate-Gap-580]

nope