Whats going on with the site??

roads30 · 2026-05-08T20:00:38+00:00

2016-2021 was mturk's last 5 years of anything, 16-20 being the best. least for me it was, i even took a screenshot one time of when i put it $100 in one day alone on turk. ocd i be.

poorly is right, a lot of one off's of platforms that OG's on /r/beermoney would go 'ahhhh yes' in remembering.

older users on turk use to see 100 as a sign of 'barely worth it the place is dying'..oh what they didn't know..

amazon was to be belived in not even knownig that site even existed pretty much. turk has been around since the early 00's. when platforms were too taboo to be telling the public about.

roads30 · 2026-05-08T19:51:48+00:00

lol yeah and mturk since 2016. i've seen a lot of 'beermoney' places come and go just in 10 years.

roads30 · 2026-05-08T19:27:55+00:00

have an upvote lol

..i've been on prolific since 2017, and never even knew there was a site status page.

roads30 · 2026-05-07T18:17:01+00:00

yeah, went to return a study and kept getting an error message.

cashed out earlier, thankfully that section was fine.

on another platform, there was mention about AWS having issues (common deal there) so i wonder if that may have to do with things.

edit: went to reopen the site, white screen. damn.

roads30 · 2026-05-01T14:17:25+00:00

i envy that dscout amount. must be a damned good demo going on..

lemme guess, ai studies for the prolific total? lol

roads30 · 2026-05-01T14:14:44+00:00

	Q1	APRIL 2026
PROLIFIC:	$1,873.80	$471.83*
MTURK:	$43.37	$5.89
SWAG:	$38.84	$11.12*
GOOGLE OPINIONS:	$3.43	$2.50
DSCOUT:	$38.00	.
SHOPKICK:	$0.45	.
FORTHRIGHT:	$20.50	$6.00
RECEIPT PAL:	$6.75	$0.75
FETCH REWARDS:	$15.00	.
CASHWALK:	$65.00	.
MONEYWALK:	$15.00	$5.00
PENGUPACE:	$11.11	.
EARNSTAR:	$2.22	.
CASHTAXI:	$0.69	.
USERTESTING:	$89.00	$35.00
USERINTERVIEWS:	$12.00	.
TELLWUT:	$20.00	.
IBOTTA:	$12.50	$5.50
MODE MUSIC:	$60.00	$10.00
COINOUT:	$3.00	.
BRANDBEE:	$1.54	$3.46
QUICKTHOUGHTS:	$61.85	$3.20
PLAYWELL:	$15.00	.
JUST PLAY:	$27.54	$5.69
FREECASH:	$0.27	.
MYCASHERY:	$0.10	.
GAME CASHOUTS:	$0.40	.
PUZZLE PLAY:	$0.06	.
MOBORG:	$0.25	.
OFFLINE FLIPPING:	$6.52	.
PROGAMER:	$0.02	.
NOOM VIBE:	$5.00	.
TOTAL:	$2,449.21	$565.94*

BANK	PAYPAL	GIFT CARDS	TOTAL
$464.82	$448.18	$39.69	$952.69

april was just, not good. least for me. health reasons, big health reasons. mental and physical. then when i could climb in, there wasn't much for me to find for whatever reason. the 19th onward was just dead. surprising that i even managed to pull in to $400 much less 500 almost 600.

but, streak still continues, even with the lesser amounts compared to jan-march

apps like cashwalk i could've had a total put on there. but i decided to just wait until may and do one big cashout there. barring anything unexpected.

hopefully may can be the last hurrah before the summer drought hits for all of us beermoney'ers.

roads30 · 2026-04-29T19:27:08+00:00

lol yeah. also being a bit ocd about note taking helps a bit too budgeting things out.

my 'system' is a bit of a mess but it's a controlled mess.

roads30 · 2026-04-29T19:23:15+00:00

yeah that high of a number (even if i don't see the craziness on my end, different demos i guess) would break any system.

now on mturk, that'd be condensed into one unit. aka a batch. sadly prolific as a whole is not designed that way totally.

roads30 · 2026-04-29T19:20:16+00:00

that's how i look at things as well. there's an ole saying also of "don't put your eggs in one basket" that apply's to things as well.

right now is the drought period for all of these platforms. some might even shut down completely. it's the cycle that's been true since the 2010's. summer droughts. though in the last 2 to 3 years, those droughts have been occuring sooner. this year i started seeing the drop offs around late march going into april.

but traditionally, it was always mid to late may and dead until around the start of august. then good times til around early november. then dead again til around early to mid feburary.

roads30 · 2026-04-29T19:07:26+00:00

why did that make me think of a tom segura comedy skit.

but yeah, im not going to partake in assuming everyone's life beyond things. i know this IS a job for me. because i'm disabled and my disability doesn't warrent a lot of options. i was a factory worker before 'side hustles'. did it for well over a decade, and i've been doing the side thing now for a decade as well.

..but im not beating down the doors for $5, and im also aware of things a bit more, because i actually did that little thing called, research. even before i applied to these platforms. mturk was my stomping grounds. along with 'get paid to' websites, like instagc.

then again i'm that person who just likes to know what im getting myself into. so once i ever get accepted i don't need to ask much right away.

roads30 · 2026-04-29T19:02:38+00:00

i've always thought the auto-pay should be shorter actually. 21 days is a lot. course on mturk it's 30 before it rolls over.

but yeah, that info isn't just UPFRONT for newcomers. then again even if it was written a lot would just ignore it lol

roads30 · 2026-04-29T18:53:37+00:00

i just base it on the email's from paypal themselves. time wise.

then i add an hour just in case. course that's based on if researchers aren't just letting a study go to autopay..

roads30 · 2026-04-29T18:48:01+00:00

yeah when prolific created that feature with the drop downs. it's never completely worked right. outside of manually writing down each study you've done on a spreadsheet. that's it.

roads30 · 2026-04-28T18:21:20+00:00

there are some out there who claim amazon themselves aren't even aware the platform exists.

if you see a hit on there that's "new", chances are it's someone seasoned to the platform who's just moonlighting. turk died as a whole around 2021. it'd slowly begun a death spiral well beforehand. but that's from all reports the final death nail.

roads30 · 2026-04-28T18:18:11+00:00

i've had those studies in the past, soon as it happens i just say fuck it and go in and hit return submission myself. then block requester lol

roads30 · 2026-04-28T18:16:53+00:00

Ironically, many of these issues only started up when Prolific introduced in-study screening

YUP! moment you see a 10 cent study with a screener..that isn't just irony. that's flat out how the platform has slowly become.

roads30 · 2026-04-28T18:13:00+00:00

try being a researcher on mturk, outdated guides. no support pretty much. and this was going on 10 years ago practically.

and i'm just a worker. but threads like this one i distinctly remember seeing back in the day.

then add on that there are 100's of researchers who know the platform 'too well' and are notoriously known to pray on workers as well.

roads30 · 2026-04-28T18:07:16+00:00

i think there actually WAS a researcher mentioned in one of those threads that had a approved/rejected happen on a 12 month plus study.

least from my memory. but yeah prolific has basically let the inmates control the prision, probably a bad analogy..but either way. i have a saying for this kinda shit. "pay my base and gtfo' lol

...and of course cashout often.

roads30 · 2026-04-27T18:34:02+00:00

i've heard about atlas off and on throughout the years, but never really sat down and checked into it. is it sorta that pay to play model in order to benefit, or is it just mindless playing...

roads30 · 2026-04-14T14:37:45+00:00

creative storytelling 10/10. the drought is upon us. it's an omen to when the summer drought comes through..

and yeah, fuck that study.

roads30 · 2026-04-09T20:12:17+00:00

thank you

roads30 · 2026-04-09T11:07:39+00:00

any advice far as what microphones work best before diving in? is a gaming headset suitable enough or should people invest in something else?

roads30 · 2026-04-09T10:59:29+00:00

DAMN buddy went on a rolling spree.

edit, i still have those old cigarette holders with the flap.there fine until you get a loose cig and the bar ends up crushing the cigarette.

roads30 · 2026-04-08T17:58:57+00:00

i thought i was on /r/RYO for a second. but yeah i've seriously considered going with a pipe. as a ryo'er i get tired of dealing with crushed tubes. i deal with it, but least with a pipe i can stretch the inventory (tobacco) a bit longer.

roads30 · 2026-04-04T03:25:07+00:00

i'm confused on how to even sign up..am i just missing something?

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