07/21 - The Tempest Thursday!

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Looks like more "improvements," some built in qualifications. I'm noping out of that. Says optional and probably won't be able to change it later.
That one actually is an improvement I think, or at least potentially an improvement. One of the big problems on mturk is people just claiming to be whatever in order to do a HIT, which makes results less reliable. Having to answer those questions through the platform ahead of time prevents people from doing that. I also don't really see any reason not to complete those. You're a lot more likely to be unable to take something by not doing them then you are to be locked out by doing them.
 

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OK, so I embarrassingly showed emotion earlier in the day so I'll update.

My visit wasn't super awesome but not as bad as I'd feared. They brought some head honcho in who kept muttering under his breath that my case was "fascinating," which was kind of hilarious to me. He came up with some good treatment options so I'm just going to be happy with that. Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. Much appreciated. I promise to be awful to everyone again from now on.
 

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Wow...I thought you must be confused, that's in your feet!...but no..no youre not. wow. And I'm sorry that does hurt! Got mine from kickboxing years ago. Who would have thought...
Nope not confused. Was confused for weeks trying to figure out how the hell I gave myself this! Then I read up on it and read some more and realized...oh shit. It's my turking posture. (Now I assume the same posture but with flip flops on so there is no pressure...lol)
 
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msn chat? what's that?
I'll be slightly less useless for ya
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mturk (the difference between this and kryssyy's link above is that her link goes to the MTC irc while this link directs you to the mturk reddit irc where he resides when he's online)
Go here sometime in the early day and look for a username "feihtality" to see if he's in there, he isn't right now but whenever I see him in there it's usually earlier.
 
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OK, so I embarrassingly showed emotion earlier in the day so I'll update.

My visit wasn't super awesome but not as bad as I'd feared. They brought some head honcho in who kept muttering under his breath that my case was "fascinating," which was kind of hilarious to me. He came up with some good treatment options so I'm just going to be happy with that. Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. Much appreciated. I promise to be awful to everyone again from now on.
Yay! Glad it wasn't as bad as you feared! But it does suck to have the head honcho geek scientific doctor find you fascinating. It's like, "Hey, I'm a person over here! Not just my condition!"
 

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OK, so I embarrassingly showed emotion earlier in the day so I'll update.

My visit wasn't super awesome but not as bad as I'd feared. They brought some head honcho in who kept muttering under his breath that my case was "fascinating," which was kind of hilarious to me. He came up with some good treatment options so I'm just going to be happy with that. Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. Much appreciated. I promise to be awful to everyone again from now on.
 

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anyone have a time on this?
Title: Academic survey on business practices | PANDA
Requester: Jeremy Bentley [A24EQW6XHMX00G] (TO)
TO Ratings:
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★★★★ 4.92 Generosity
★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness
★★★★★ 5.00 Promptness
Number of Reviews: 16 | TOS Flags: 0
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Description: Approximately 5-10 minute study on how people evaluate business decisions. You will be paid $0.75 for completing the survey.
Time: 8 hours
HITs Available: 1
Reward: $0.75
Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 100;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 98
 

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OK, so I embarrassingly showed emotion earlier in the day so I'll update.

My visit wasn't super awesome but not as bad as I'd feared. They brought some head honcho in who kept muttering under his breath that my case was "fascinating," which was kind of hilarious to me. He came up with some good treatment options so I'm just going to be happy with that. Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. Much appreciated. I promise to be awful to everyone again from now on.
:heart: you and you know it.
 

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what is this

Profile Tasks available:
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That one actually is an improvement I think, or at least potentially an improvement. One of the big problems on mturk is people just claiming to be whatever in order to do a HIT, which makes results less reliable. Having to answer those questions through the platform ahead of time prevents people from doing that. I also don't really see any reason not to complete those. You're a lot more likely to be unable to take something by not doing them then you are to be locked out by doing them.
I'm also thinking that this helps Amazon have more hits that are invisible to most people and therefore fewer server requests on scrapers etc. Less total server access requests = happier back end folks.
 
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anyone have a time on this?
Title: Academic survey on business practices | PANDA
Requester: Jeremy Bentley [A24EQW6XHMX00G] (TO)
TO Ratings:
★★★★★ 5.00 Communicativity
★★★★ 4.92 Generosity
★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness
★★★★★ 5.00 Promptness
Number of Reviews: 16 | TOS Flags: 0
Submit a new TO review
Description: Approximately 5-10 minute study on how people evaluate business decisions. You will be paid $0.75 for completing the survey.
Time: 8 hours
HITs Available: 1
Reward: $0.75
Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 100;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 98
I think it was around 5 minutes when I took it earlier, but don't quote me on that. :)
 

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I'm also thinking that this helps Amazon have more hits that are invisible to most people and therefore fewer server requests on scrapers etc. Less total server access requests = happier back end folks.
have you seen their TO's yikes.
 
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Dag nabbit Amazon! Two captchas today and I've only done 14 hits. I've only returned the two I've captcha'd plus 2 others I decided not to do. That does not equal 35!
 
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OK, so I embarrassingly showed emotion earlier in the day so I'll update.

My visit wasn't super awesome but not as bad as I'd feared. They brought some head honcho in who kept muttering under his breath that my case was "fascinating," which was kind of hilarious to me. He came up with some good treatment options so I'm just going to be happy with that. Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. Much appreciated. I promise to be awful to everyone again from now on.
Glad it went ok. I don't think whatever it is understands who it is messing with. You are going to kick it's ass and probably banish it to a hell-dimension.
 

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I'm also thinking that this helps Amazon have more hits that are invisible to most people and therefore fewer server requests on scrapers etc. Less total server access requests = happier back end folks.
If these three short surveys result in less server request rate errors, I'm all for it.
 
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