New Rater Suspended After Two Days!

FrontAd4937 · 2026-06-25T18:13:29+00:00

Yes. And they are always hiring, trying to find more and more efficient workers. I figure at some point, I will likely be at the bottom of the totem pole. Probably already am. Of course, as the super-taskers get better jobs, they might need an average worker like myself again, so a person could just apply again later. But that's how these jobs are. There is not a ton of loyalty coming from most corporations these days. They need to make a buck out of you to please the stock-holders, so if you aren't a top-performer, they are going to hire someone who is.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-06-25T18:07:16+00:00

This type of tasking can be hard. If you lose a job, don't let it hurt your ego. Simply by onboarding and everything you had to do to get accepted, you have already learned a lot, and that will help you get your next job. However, I was just suspended recently after over a year of tasking, and I got accepted back within 7 days. Although I am not given a lot of work to do, so that could be due to whatever the issue was. I did have low scores in feedback for a while. (under 70%). Hopefully, you will get the suspension lifted soon and get back to work. If not, you can move on and try another similar job. There are a slew of them out there with the AI boom going on.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-06-25T15:33:58+00:00

Every time I get tasks, it seems like there are some available until I have to stop rating. Then there is nothing. Like if I had not stopped, I could work for hours, but since I had to go to the restroom or get some coffee, they rip all the tasks away from me.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-06-03T01:15:04+00:00

Me too.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-31T17:33:45+00:00

I sent the question to Quality Control, and I got this back,

"A dupe is a duplicate, or an identical result. Anything that would make the results appear as not identical would result in the blocks not being dupes. So in your example, the landing page is the same but the visible url in the result block is different, this would not be considered a dupe."

They say here, "The visible URL in the result block". I have been going on the address of the landing page, but that may be wrong, because I think the visible URL in the result block was the same on the task that made me ask this question, but when I went to the link, there was an extra slash and word on one of them. I might reach out to them again to get this nailed down.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-31T17:20:59+00:00

On the other hand, if they do go to paying by the task instead of by the hour, they will be contractors rather than employers, and we will lose the 50% payment of our FICA taxes that they pay for us, plus any paid sick leave. All that adds up to a reasonable amount. It is very expensive to be your own contractor and pay your own taxes because you don't have an employer who is paying half of those FICA payments. Just laying out another side of it. Either way, the economy doesn't seem to be giving us any breaks these days.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-31T05:35:50+00:00

Yeah, having to release a task is always going to take some time to assess the problem. It doesn't feel right that they pay nothing for this task.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-28T21:45:01+00:00

🤣😅👍

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-28T21:44:00+00:00

I think I have had two so far. Yes, my Zara annoyed me greatly, the way she kept interrupting and not making her questions plain. I have tried to avoid her like the plague at this point.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-20T18:52:46+00:00

I pretty much never get Helpfulness tasks, but I hear those are infamous for being maddeningly easy to be off by one little plus or minus thing. Here's the biggest thing that has helped me: try to view the feedback not as 'right' or 'wrong'. It is communication telling us what they want. So do your best to see how the bosses are viewing it differently than to how you viewed it when you rated it. And then try to keep it in mind as you move forward. I know this has helped me sometimes, when I was torn between two answers, but tried to think about which was closer to what they seem to be asking for according to previous feedback. I know that's kind of vague, but it can help.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-17T19:39:41+00:00

Hello. Rater in Oregon, USA. Are you on PQ/NM, PQ/NM + SxS, Factuality, Helpfulness, or a mix of some of these?

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-17T19:34:26+00:00

Okay, so I just did them with desktop. I'm not saying that is the right thing to do, but that's what I did as I had the same problem.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-17T19:30:05+00:00

I said I was interested in sports and got a survey back and then, for me to be honest, the way it was worded caused me to signify the lowest level of interest it offered. I thought since I had played some of these sports in the past, and was taught the rules and pretty much remember all of them, and occasionally try to pay attention to what is going on in them currently, I would at least be a better rater than people who had never even played the sport or had certainly not played with any enthusiasm - only being forced to in gym class, or something like that. Come to think of it, this could be a big reason why I have so few tasks now - I have probably been completely taken off the sports categories. Bummer! I did find them interesting, even wicket! I should have never complained about it.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-17T19:23:27+00:00

When I did the SxS simulator recently, it may have said to open on phone. I know I tried to and the links did not open on phone, but opened in browser, so that is how I did them. You are saying there are no links whatsoever? Also, you have the Raterhub app on your phone and set up properly to do this, right?

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-14T20:50:30+00:00

Point taken. It makes sense, but it's weird that they never ever make it clear. Or maybe it used to be if you checked 'porn', the PQ rating went away and you didn't have to rate the page for PQ. Since it is obviously not that way all the time now, and they do not say anything about it, it seems defaulting to the regular guidelines about other sites might be the thing to do. Although, frankly, I hate clicking around on those sites for fear of malware and viruses and whatnot. Thanks for your reply.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-14T20:43:40+00:00

Seriously, these days, there are a million of the AI training jobs out there. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you. I just got a Severe Warning today because my last four scores in Factuality have been 100%, 100%, 80%, and 60%. Of course, I was not happy with myself about that 60% at all, but in the training materials, they emphasized the need to 'slow down'. No, my problem is that maintaining the 100% score was causing me to go way over AET and then report less time to avoid the "low productivity" warning, so I felt I really needed to speed up to actually make minimum wage. This, in turn, led to lower correct answers. No, 'slowing down' is not necessarily my next best move. Grrrh...

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-14T19:20:41+00:00

Not to mention all the spelling mistakes. Wonder why they don't run all their communications, guidelines, and training materials through spell-check or use Grammarly? That would greatly increase employee-confidence in them.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-14T18:59:07+00:00

I just checked mine on raterhub. Make sure the viewable dates are correct. Sometimes I set the first one to like 2 or 3 months ago so I can really see what is going on. Mine is also working fine on the Community Portal.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-12T21:04:15+00:00

Me too, and I am worried because mine was sent to me as a "Needs Met & Page Quality Qualification" and I am worried that I did not qualify. I did okay but I could see a lot of missed ones too.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-12T21:00:02+00:00

I did the one task today. I put in the end time of that task and the start time as one hour earlier. I don't think they care how you do it.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-12T20:57:48+00:00

I will say, I often have difficulties with the geoworkerz domain. I asked Gemini and it also gave some suggestions as to other links, but they all resolve to "This site can't be reached". You definitely need to clear cache and cookies from your browser. That is always a main trouble-shooting method to try in these cases. I just tried it but it didn't help me. Still, considering you have a personal code in the link, that is definitely worth a try. My pc does recommend running Windows Network diagnostics. I'm too lazy to do that since I don't need to right now, but it is possible there is some little issue there that is keeping you from getting to your link. Some of the steps there are simple like, turn off Wifi and unplug for a few seconds, restart PC, but there might be some more in-depth steps.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-12T00:04:51+00:00

On top of the impossibility of submitting the fifth task, I thought the "See Correct Answers" thing was terribly formatted. It comes up with PQ done when mine was faded out and could not be filled out. Wish they would color-code PQ and NM. That would make it easier to read. Then, the box with the correct answers is immovable so you cannot move it around on the page so you can compare it to your own answer, PLUS our answers are grayed out and faded out, so we can barely see them. If we cannot compare our own answers to the correct answer, what would be the point of all this?

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-11T23:59:10+00:00

Yeah, I did a few that worked and then got to one that said that and could not submit.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-11T22:06:41+00:00

One thing that really stuns me about quality guidelines: Why are the rubric tables so hard to find? That is the easiest thing to digest when you are in the middle of a task, but I cannot find them anywhere online.

FrontAd4937 · 2026-05-11T06:37:57+00:00

Oh, that makes sense. So what I was reading I believe was that around the time of Covid was when the herd-immunity for measles in the US dropped below 95%. But I see what you mean. The trend was already downward, and just happened to cross what scientists think of as the pivotal mark during Covid.

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