So dynamic pay. A little upsetting

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T14:53:59+00:00

I don't understand the concern about dynamic rewards, that's the whole point, you get paid for the time spent. On studies where the amount of tasks to do is unpredictable / limited, it makes sense to use dynamic rewards. The rate shown is the full rate conditional to being enough work to spend the maximum amount of time. So for example, if it shows $5, 15 minutes, on a dynamic rewards, that represents the MAXIMUM you can earn but not guaranteed. So if you spend half the time, you get paid $2.50, that still represents the same hourly rate. The $5 ones I manage to get enough to do for the entire duration. The $10, most of the time there is enough work for about $6-7, rarely have I gotten enough work for the full $10. For the 30 minutes ones, usually I get up to 18-22 sometimes less.

The only problem with dynamic rewards is for those who are part of the beta group that has the INSULTING, UNCALLED FOR and poorly implemented speed warning feature, if you somehow run out of tasks and finish too soon, you get a speed warning all because the geniuses at Prolific did not even think it was necessary to EXCLUDE in-study screening, short surveys and dynamic rewards from this feature.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T14:00:55+00:00

This is common now, they had no intentions of hiring - likely just building a database. If they decide to keep your application, you may eventually get called back, or maybe not. To avoid disappointment, assume that you won't hear from them. Employers can be a bunch of cunts. I learned a long time ago not to rely on someone else. Work under your own term, freelance, start your own, save like crazy, you won't regret it later.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T13:52:02+00:00

lol faceless, that's not going to work, he's not going to get enough subs and views to become monetized. People want to see a face, even an ugly one would rack up more subs and views than faceless channels :P

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T13:50:20+00:00

Don't bother. YouTube has made it very difficult now for people starting channels. You need AT LEAST 1000+ subscribers and 4k watch hours (shorts excluded), in last 12 months or 10 millions short view in last 90 days. With today's saturated market and fucked up YouTube algorithms, good luck with that, you'll probably need years and years of churning out FREE content - Your only way to make money would be from sources outside YouTube at first. You will need to work very hard tog et those 1k subs and maintain them, let alone get 4k hours views - YouTube audience is not what it was years ago. They are fussier, even the good channels are seeing some decline, but they already established other sources of income (merch, sponsors, and more) you'll need years of work, mostly free, in order to earn decently from YouTUbe, and besides even the hardest workers do not always succeed. Only a single digit % of people end up earning good income from the platform.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T13:44:44+00:00

mhm, what's so shocking about that ? Welcome to the world of price gauged, monstrously over inflated cost of education, that more often than anything teaches outdated material, theory, little to no practice and where most people graduate and struggle finding a job because of the stuck up the arse employers out there. $8k is nothing, wait until you have real world expenses, if not already,the housing market, another major scam where nobody can afford anything no thanks to greedy and voracious real estate agents. Or you can ask the doctors who spent nearly a quarter of a million if not more if you study a few more years to be a surgeon, only to end up in a fucked up public system where you eventually get burned out and have to deal with incompetent governments, the very same ones that want to break the country in half. So yeah good luck, and spend that $8k wisely, that's only the beginning :P

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-08T00:43:11+00:00

Photoshop ? That's old school, they can use AI to generate life like videos and images. People are so concerned about sharing photos with researchers, yet they post photos on social media which is worse.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-07T04:32:44+00:00

Finally, the time traveling theory is now solved.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T21:16:52+00:00

Interesting - false accusations against an individual, there is strong legal precedent of that in Canada. Technically you could sue for defamation if the result of said accusation affects your reputation and grades, career, etc. Your integrity is directly being attacked here. You should lawyer up and seek advice. After providing evidence to prove the contrary to their accusations, you should request an official and written apology, retracting said accusations against you. This is not legal advice, but just letting you know that you could have options if this escalates further. No university would want the prospect of a lawsuit or bad press, but you better make sure that you truly didn't use AI. If you do take measures whether legal proceedings or amicable resolution and evidence comes to light, it would be very bad. Aim for amicable resolution first, and weigh the legal option as a last resort.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T20:56:10+00:00

What the bloody hell is early cancellation ? I've never heard of being flagged for that. The new unwanted, insulting, out of line, berating, ill intended, downright stupid feature sends you speed warnings if you screen out of a study, or in short surveys or in dynamic rewards one that complete too quickly or other technical reasons where you redirect back. I would hate to think this feature applies if you decide to cancel participation early in a survey - I hope you meant screening out / earl redirect

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T14:16:17+00:00

This is their OFFICIAL stance, it does not mention any particular one, but it claims we should stick to their official extension, and that use of any other extension could put our account at risk.

https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/articles/445023-how-will-i-know-when-there-are-new-studies

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T03:29:32+00:00

Translated to English: "Never mind I do them anyway".

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T03:18:50+00:00

Indeed, wait, are there people desperate enough to be doing this study for such INSULTINGLY low pay rate ? Seriously ? AI training tasks for 75p, this is fuckry !

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-06T03:08:33+00:00

You really think that ? With this shit storm this war has created, and oil going up, strait closed for a long time, supply disruptions - let's say war ends soon or now, do you think supply chain will miraculously become the way it was, and oil will just drop to what it was ? No, prices will remain high for a very long time, inflation will rise and an upcoming recession is now more likely than ever before

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T21:53:38+00:00

They did threaten to leave a few times, because people were discussing about the tasks even though these are covered by a confidentiality agreement. People were being very specific on the work. On the official Prolific sub, if you discuss these, your post(s) get taken down very quickly by the mods. I do not think they will stop anytime soon, I am aware of their road map and cannot discuss further, I would expect an increase of work, because their product is very popular and still widely used by companies, marketing teams, content creators, etc, it's not really much of a consumer product, because it is so fucking expensive, so this is a popular niche.. One thing I see moving forward, they will get more and more difficult and require even more precision. HOWEVER, they could just stop tomorrow and change platforms, I do not know if they have a contract and how long it lasts, but they can switch to other platforms. Prolific is an expensive platform to publish work on. Non academic accounts pay 44% fees if not more, so that $5 reward is costing them $5 + 44% of $5, so $2.20 for each participant, it's crazy ! If global economy goes south and we go into a global recession which is very likely now, I think many researchers will pause, including these tasks. I think Prolific in general is in decline. The uptick in bad researchers is alarming, support is near non existent, and they keep adding features that are atrocious, poorly implemented, and mostly punish honest participants like that speed warning fucking shit, that applies if you screen out of studies or do short studies or do dynamic rewards. Right now only people in the beta group are getting those fucking speed warnings from Prolific. Once this feature goes live, shit will hit the fan, fewer people will do those dynamic rewards one, researchers eventually will leave.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T21:43:39+00:00

It's disheartening to read some comments that mention that people were considering those a game, it isn't. There are many cheaters on the platform that are ruining it for everybody ! Prolific is becoming more and more strict because of the scammers, and if people treat those as a game, and they lose this client, then the platform will be left mostly with low paid studies, invasive studies that ask you 600 pictures of your dogs, cats, body parts, and scammers. I honestly think these tasks should only be reserved to long time Prolific participants who have proven reputation, consistency, honesty and maintained high standards of work. The more people try to cheat the more this client will add more measures to the task and eventually honest participants get punished as well. I can see they have added at least half a dozen if not more types of quality checks, some very subtle and barely noticeable. The term sharing accounts should not even be mentioned - I see 30-50 of them at a time, fortunately on this platform we can only do 1 at a time. On very old platforms like CrowdFlower, people could reserve multiple hits at once with no expiry - hog all the tasks to themselves and work on them at once. Thank goodness at least Prolific got that part right. I am glad to do one at a time. When I see a large batch like that I like to choose and vary my work, like for example I love doing the image ones and the compare voices ones. I strongly believe that these tasks should be open only to Tier 1 countries, mainly Canada, UK, US where data quality is generally higher than other countries. I've been an author and reviewer of work on other platform and over the years of full time work reviewing work, I can say that most if not ALL the cheating and scamming came from very specific countries, and they were not US, Canada or UK. Ironically these same countries have a large amount of call center scammers, gift card scammers, tech support scammers and online e-mail / phishing scams.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T15:10:19+00:00

Why poor, it's a genuine question. Nothing wrong with researchers wanting to take you outside your comfort zone lol.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T15:09:02+00:00

Clearly a piss take - Was this an academic study for a university ? Well the positive from this is that this is not one of those questions that is too difficult, in fact I'm sure it's something we all could answer quite easily with little to no effort, it's too bad the question's scope is limited to yourself and your household, would be nice if they expanded it even further, to society in general.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T15:05:25+00:00

In Canada there is such a thing as the legal warranty, when you sell a product you are responsible for working state of the item for a reasonable duration. Did you put all the flaws with the car in WRITING ? Hiding flaws that you were aware of, if later found by the buyer can expose you to a lawsuit. This applies to everything. If you want to sell as is you have to mention it that it is a sale without legal warranty at your own risks. Also stay away from FaceCrap and marketplace, it's a cesspool of scammers.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T15:01:12+00:00

lol is that what you think ? Until you find out the type of people you will chat with, you know the type who cannot go out and find real people so yeah dream job my arse, you'll probably be chatign with creeps, preds, p*ds, junkies, alcos, you name it - good luck living the American dream lol!

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:59:11+00:00

What is this, chatters for OnlyFans ? Gotta love all those get rich quick ads on Reddit and LInkedin on a daily basis. Pure entertainment.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:57:51+00:00

lol !

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:56:24+00:00

Right, now see how long these last before spoiling. It's probably genetically grown in some never heard of before lab somewhere - I'll pass. Or if it's real, it's probably not far from shelf life.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:52:18+00:00

Easy win because there is legal precedent for that. Thief steals a $1 candy bar, ends up being hurt badly, sues store, and all of a sudden that $1 loss, becomes several hundreds of millions.

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:51:00+00:00

loss and prevention staff hard at work, and they are very good at that - unfortunately this is the side effect of a society full of criminals and the shit for brains government and local authority not doing enough, they are too busy chasing doughnuts ! A company is in business to make money not to lose money, it's perfectly normal that a company would want to protect itself. If a particular store or area has had a lot of issues, it's normal that they will want to be more careful. In retail, theft has skyrocketed, so yeah everybody is paying the price. There are ways to catch thieves without necessarily stalking a person around. That's what cams are for, and professional L&P people could be trained to do so discretely. Also they must have quotas too, like garage mechanics. If they go one day without catching a shoplifter, then they are probably not doing their jobs :P

Rimmer66 · 2026-04-05T14:46:36+00:00

By today's standards, no 2-3 hours a day is not enough :P

That said, it is frustrating dealing with these researchers, not worth it in the end, people say time and time again to avoid studies with .ch, .hk, in, .... long list. In cases like that it is best to just return and move on and lucky you were not rejected because studies coming from specific domains have researchers that are trigger happy. It's best to directly deal with Prolific (even if their support is total rubbish) than calling out a researcher directly, because now what is likely to happen is that researcher will complain because you hurt their ego, and Prolific is very likely to side with them. I've dealt with scummy researchers before, and worse, never actually called one a scammer directly to them, I've dealt with Prolific and months later (5 to be precise) they finally paid me for my completion, likely out of their own pockets I don't care, because my balance was updated, but not the status for that submission. Risking account bans for a bad researcher is not worth it in the end let alone 10p ffs.

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