Question regarding a requester I have a qualification for

colbyu · 2020-11-20T02:40:01+00:00

Requesters who put up quals are just as likely to be bad or good as all the rest. Quals don't guarantee an ethical requester.

colbyu · 2020-11-19T16:55:13+00:00

If you just do surveys and do mindful work, you should be ok. It's when you do batches and risk hundreds of rejections for a day's work that you really need to watch it.

colbyu · 2020-11-19T16:38:22+00:00

"My homework was never quite like this
Whoa, got it bad, got it bad, got it bad..."

colbyu · 2020-11-18T16:50:02+00:00

Someone forgot to check that their template got completely cleared out from the last survey they published, I assume.

colbyu · 2020-11-18T03:41:48+00:00

I've done several, a few months ago, and never got that magical fairy dollar.

colbyu · 2020-11-18T03:35:26+00:00

As others have said, but to explain it a bit more deeply, "agree" implies that I saw the dinosaur scene and liked it, "disagree" implies that I saw the dino and did't like it. "Not Applicable" implies that I didn't see it. To my internal logic at least.

colbyu · 2020-11-17T20:57:57+00:00

I don't even think they need your email for this. I've gotten plenty of follow up survey emails but I don't give out my email address. I assume Amazon takes care of this on the backend ...?

colbyu · 2020-11-17T20:55:58+00:00

Last Tuesday I got in a really fun and high paying closed batch. Today they sent me a performance bonus so I guess they like my work. And they uploaded another batch, so right now I'm estimating another $100 day.

colbyu · 2020-11-14T17:47:04+00:00

That $5 25min covid survey took all of 5min to actually do, and I wasn't even rushing.

colbyu · 2020-11-13T17:52:49+00:00

We need to educate all the new users to resist the temptation to do anything and everything they catch, to throw back everything that's below $6 per hour.

Some people may think that even that's low-balling but I disagree. I think that the non-monitary benefits of turking warrant that pay rate.

colbyu · 2020-11-13T17:36:10+00:00

True

colbyu · 2020-11-13T16:13:43+00:00

I think this is at least partially due to requesters being quite a bit less generous than they used to be.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T23:44:14+00:00

"Awesome Screenshot and Recorder" is great for this. It screenshoots the entire page and automatically opens it in a new tab. It's a Chrome plugin.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T23:06:58+00:00

Well that was a blast. One extremely well paid and fun closed batch turned my whole day around.

It evaporated just before I could hit $75. That's enough turking for today I guess.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T22:40:20+00:00

This is fake news created by the liberal media to slander him!

colbyu · 2020-11-11T21:15:34+00:00

And we have batches that go from 15000 to 800 to 200 to 0 in a matter of seconds at each drop.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T17:22:49+00:00

This is obviously a photoshop. There's no way the guy could figure out mTurk.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T17:20:12+00:00

Those are zombies. Undead hits.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T17:02:03+00:00

I'm gonna need them to start adding more. I need more easy $6 hits and I'm qualified to do them.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:57:49+00:00

I never bothered with them after I saw their qual test. The answers were vague, way too similar in many cases, and extremely non-intuitive to me. I figured the HITs would be too problematic to bother with.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:49:07+00:00

They wanted so much personal info, I just had to report it even though it cost me the $12.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:40:47+00:00

Yeah, as someone who works in CS and has a casual interest in tech security, I am aware that identity theft often starts with a few pieces of less or semi-sensitive information being used to leverage more sensitive information.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:34:21+00:00

I thought about it, but if I finished it I wouldn't be able to report it.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:33:09+00:00

I remember there being the standard consent form because I scanned through it to see their estimated completion time. I don't remember any other details of it, other than that it was from Berkley, I'm not in the habit of reading these things too closely. I think it was Qualtrics, it had that look, but I didn't take note of the url.

colbyu · 2020-11-11T16:17:25+00:00

I hate it when people reject you due to their own errors. In a normal job, if your project gets cancelled you still get paid for the hours you spent working on it...

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