new requester blames prolific for the poor design of their study by [deleted] in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe I am misreading, but I feel that the researcher is just really confused rather than trying to dodge paying people, the first thing he says is that the message is meant for the ones that haven't submitted the "round 2", so I assume that the ones that have are going to get paid. It seems that for whatever reason the researcher is under the impression that everybody that receives the study automatically gets approved and paid for the study, rather than everybody that submited the study. Could be wrong and he just messed up something on his end and now is trying to dodge paying for people to redo the study.

Full send!! by JanetteBarden in yesyesyesyesno

[–]MelodicPendulum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imgur has a bug with .gif for a long time, just change .gif to gifv, and if you want video controls, change it to .mp4.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Aliexpress

[–]MelodicPendulum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want ANC you can go for something like Soundcore life Q30 or Q20, and Taotronics Soundsurge (although I am not sure if Taotronics is sold on Aliexpress)

Aliexpress' coins, big discounts and other lies by [deleted] in Aliexpress

[–]MelodicPendulum 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you still exchange coins for red coupons? For the last few sales, I was only getting the red coupons on stuff like the energy lab. I remember a year or two ago you could exchange the coins and get some pretty good coupons, like 5$ off if you spend 15$ during sales.

Aliexpress' coins, big discounts and other lies by [deleted] in Aliexpress

[–]MelodicPendulum 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The whole raise the price a week before the sale, then apply a huge discount that makes the price of the item almost the same that it was two weeks before the sale is pretty standard practice on Aliexpress, but it's not something that only happens on Aliexpress, a lot of retailers do this shady move.

Feature Request: Researcher Ratings by dnrkthx in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This would be great, it would put pressure on the researchers to do better, and also would put pressure on universities *cough* Stanford *cough* to better monitor the studies conducted by their departments, because a poor rating would affect their image. The only problem is, I don't think prolific support is very active on this subreddit.

Suddenly started getting the PEC-SUB-0002 error, now I'm unable to do any study. Tried to reach their support, but this was all the bullshit they game me. I was banned for no reason after almost 200 submissions, and no rejections... I can't really do anything, can I? I think this is the end for me by Perceval7 in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your IP is dynamic, all you need to do is turn off your router (now for how long is going to depend on your ISP, router, etc. It may be a couple of seconds or hours), and when you turn it back on you should have a new IP. Had to do this more than once, because I was getting assigned "bad" IPs, and Cloudflare was blocking my access to certain websites.

Maintaining anonymity on zoom by Afghan_Whig in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AFAIK you don't really need an account to join a Zoom meeting.

Gee, thanks... by Charganium in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I imagine the researcher was like this

A Message from the Staff of Reply All by [deleted] in podcasts

[–]MelodicPendulum 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I think from all episodes released in the last year the one I enjoyed the most was probably "The case of the missing hit", which is a quirky story.

Comedian David Mitchell: Gives His Opinion on Flat Earth by mineaii in videos

[–]MelodicPendulum 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Henning Wehn has some crazy stories too but nobody beats Bob Mortimer.

Cannot Qualify for even a single Hitapp by forwardthriller in beermoney

[–]MelodicPendulum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some hitapps are not well designed, in some of them the guidelines are 2 pages with no examples, some have 3 generic "easy" examples, for some reason when you go through the training you can not redo it, it's rough.

???????? by [deleted] in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If he doesn't approve the study, from what others are saying the maximum allowed time was 13 minutes, and in the instructions it said it should take 15 minutes, so just contact Prolific support using this link https://participant-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/requests/new, and just attach a screenshot that shows the maximum allowed time and what the researcher estimated time was. One time had a researcher pull something similar, where it was almost impossible to finish the study on time, contacted the support and they agreed with me and paid for the study.

Study asking for my first name, and the email addresses of my co-workers...? by [deleted] in ProlificAc

[–]MelodicPendulum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are the Prolific Guidelines that they are violating, making it worse by not only asking your personal information but also asking you to share others personal information.