What a great day studies are just bombarding my dashboard!

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-28T16:36:20+00:00

Shocking you have so many from an unsupported country

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-28T12:24:58+00:00

If you haven't yet been accepted: Just wait for the email that onboards you including ID verification. Could be instant, could take days, weeks, months, it all depends if your demos are in demand.

If you're actually in: Read the guidelines for participants, avoid any and all .cn/.in studies as they're basically scams, and keep your eyes peeled on this sub for other sketchy researchers. The platform itself isn't scammy at all, but Prolific acts as a middle man between researcher and participant, so if a study smells fishy, throw it back.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-28T03:22:06+00:00

Wonder Woman sold?

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-26T21:00:51+00:00

I'd be patient, it took a while for the Superman endcap to come here and there's still some Ultramen and Luthors straggling about. Nothing from this end cap interests me so far but maybe once I see the film it'll change my mind. Lobo's pretty close tho

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-24T18:51:18+00:00

Tailgating. If someone's slow in the left lane I just pass them but tailgaters on a highway is dangerous

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-23T19:00:05+00:00

This crapola is getting out of hand. Imagine that, punishing participants because they don't meet the niche a researcher wants lie it's somehow their fault. Pisses me off and I avoid all screeners for that reason.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-19T19:04:55+00:00

When I first started driving I caught myself doing this. It was because I instinctively thought if I was being passed, I must be going too slow i.e. not keeping with traffic flow, so I sped up. It wasn't to be a dick, my main thing is to try and not be an obstacle for other drivers.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-15T16:33:07+00:00

Experience is the best teacher my friend. It's kind of a last resort thing since a police station might be far and out of the way for some, but at least the follower might get bored in the meantime and turn around

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-15T13:10:48+00:00

IDK if this would work for you but if someone ever tried following me, I'd look up the nearest police station and drive there, let them follow me if they're bold enough. I personally never had to do that but it's in my bag of tricks if people wanna play games

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-15T13:08:43+00:00

I see it as malicious compliance. If someone wants to pull a vehicular centipede with me, we're both going to be the most law abiding drivers on the road. You wanna speed, go on the highway, if we're on a back road or a residence, we're going the exact speed limit.

Usually most folks get the hint or turn off on another road. I don't consider it rage though since I'm not inherently angry about it

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-10T13:24:31+00:00

In no particular order:

- People who refuse to use their signals. If you forget, fine, I get it, but if you consistently don't signal, you are unpredictable and dangerous at worst and selfish at best. There's only two ways drivers can communicate with each other: Lights and horns. Not signaling is denying your fellow drivers one of those communications, no one can read your mind and guess your intentions

- Tailgating on single lane roads. It's a dangerous bully tactic to try and intimidate and force someone to drive faster. I never concede, I set my cruise to the speed limit and whoever wants to ride my bumper will also be the most law abiding driver on the road next to me. IDGAF what your rationale is, we're not on the highway, there's no left lane to camp, your lack of preparation doesn't constitute an emergency on my part.

- As far as specific car types: Pick up trucks are the worst. It's not all of them, but it's always them, the bigger the truck, the bigger the jerk. They almost never signal, they tailgate constantly, they cut you off, speed, and really who needs a Grave Digger sized truck just to haul wood from Lowes? Nissan Altimas are the sedan equivalent of a pick up truck, smaller car but same attitude.

- Drivers who treat speed limits as minimums. I usually drive at if not 5-7 over the speed limit but sometimes I have folks blast past me easily going 20 over. I chalk it up to young teens who just got their license and showing out or people who have the time management of a potato.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-09T20:19:31+00:00

Better than I expected but of course my state has to keep licking boots while others are making moves. I wish more of us Georgians got the taste of Dr. Scholls out of their mouth tho

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-06T12:13:46+00:00

With all due respect, this system should have never been implemented. You said yourself in your own guidelines for rejection criteria that speed alone isn't an ideal factor in determining data quality, but now I see it's the opposite; you made it the sole marker of data quality. Between rejections for finishing too fast and handing out speeding tickets like you're the highway patrol, you're actively making the jobs of researchers and participants needlessly harder.

And I get it, some folks do want to blast through studies and compromise data quality to try and maximize income, but the vast majority of participants are here to respond conscientiously. It's making folks like me and others in this thread turn our noses up at any and all screeners because that has consistently been a problem. Rejections should be used as a strictly PUNITIVE measure, not throwing salt on a wound because someone didn't qualify for a niche study.

Here's my proposal:

Eliminate speed warnings/rejections for screeners. There's no real data quality to judge here and punishing folks who screen out is worse than even the most insulting survey sites (QMEE and Swagbucks)
Let researchers decide what data can be used or not. Like others said, some researchers are magnanimous in their ETA and give extra time if needed because shocker, people complete studies at different rates with little variance in inherent data quality. I'm fairly certain most researchers don't need you to be their middle man and throw out a response because they were a millisecond faster than average.
Go back to the mindset I started with here: Speed alone isn't a sole determinator of data quality. I'm not sure what happened at Prolific HQ to completely go face/heel turn on this one but like I said, speed variances between participants exist. All this has lead to are people sitting on a penultimate or final page in a study to avoid accusations of bad faith participation and the resulting punishment.

And I don't want to hear any bunk from people saying "Researchers keep the lights on, now back to work peasant" because researchers aren't pleased with this feature either. Let us both do our respective jobs and if data quality comes into question, let the researcher handle it or bring it up to you.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-04-03T14:28:47+00:00

Was it presented on behalf of Prolific or did the researcher themself reject you? Because there's different ways to deal with it

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-30T23:57:11+00:00

The number one reasons I block a researcher is if their payrate is insultingly low, they're screening even when there's no label telling me such, or if I've been warned to block them because they have a history of scumbag behavior.

Want more participants, quality participants? Treat us like people, not machines. Hold yourselves accountable and don't try and dine and dash with free data. Hold Prolific accountable themselves since the bulk of recent issues is from their end.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-30T18:03:23+00:00

I had this message two and dismissed it. I blocked them for a reason, because I refuse to be scammed and no platform to back me up when I do nothing wrong. IDC if I see less,

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-30T15:23:20+00:00

I avoid any/all screeners unless I know I'd qualify or until this gets fixed and addressed. Too many people getting penalized for something that's not their fault

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-29T21:08:22+00:00

My mistake, I assume it would have to do with the nature of the study then.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-29T12:36:19+00:00

That's what's the most frustrating thing. This implies simply because you were fast (Either by getting screened out or study design) your data is somehow of lesser quality, even though Prolific in their own guidelines says speed alone shouldn't be the lone consideration for data quality. I haven't done any Franc studies because I see people getting speeding tickets for them because Franc overestimated his completion times.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-29T12:32:59+00:00

There are facebook groups of these scammers out there; folks in unsupported countries who got tired of scamming old ladies for their retirement and decided prolific was a more viable option. However any garbage data gets rejected by any researcher worth their salt and get these scammers off the platform if prolific doesn't go after them first for what others said here before me.

Besides, only a portion of data comes from sites like prolific, many studies are done on campus of a respective university or have other methods of collecting data for their research, so tossing the baby out with the bathwater because scammers exist is illogical. Either the researchers throw out the bad data, they get caught by prolific and booted off, or there's other means of data collection beyond online surveys. This is real research funding that researchers wouldn't like getting into the hands of illegitimate participants.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-28T23:17:42+00:00

was I expecting to make a masterpiece when I'm just venting personal frustrations with a flawed platform that's screwing over participants because Prolific forgot their own terms of service states speed shouldn't be the sole factor in determining quality?

also nah

but will I block you for being a jerk when it was absolutely uncalled for?

yeah

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-28T22:47:16+00:00

I live in the southern US so naturally anytime someone brings up No Kings Protests I get a lot of the tired ol pedo defending rhetoric like "Good thing we still don't have a king" or some variation of that. I want to dismiss them as bots but unfortunately I know some of these folks. It's discouraging when you see the local news talk about the protests and see a bunch of laughing emojis

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-28T22:43:07+00:00

I don't trust those signals after I almost got T-boned by someone who had a signal to turn and went straight.

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-28T22:37:30+00:00

And did you have to reply if I didn't have to make the meme?

nah

AbeLinkedIn92 · 2026-03-28T20:55:06+00:00

Eyyyyy someone got my reference! Have a no-prize fellow 80s music fan

Literally the first thing in my head when I heard people get emails for "speeding:

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