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How often do you turk from a mobile device (phone, tablet, etc)?


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You run up to 150 PANDAs simultaneously!?

Even 5 is too many. 1 to 2 at once is good, 3 should be the maximum.
You wanna here something funny.. I havent caught a hit all day.. I run a bunch and I catch more and I have no pre's I run a few and i end up with a bunch of pre's
 
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Is there a way to make MTS quieter than my other chrome tabs? So I can watch TV but also not get INCLUDE LIST MATCH FOUND BLAHBLAHBABALHBALHBALHB in the middle of it?

I've tried volume mixer but it's always just all the chrome windows in one
I've always used firefox for me watching stuff and chrome to do work stuffs.
 

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Title: Short 5 minute research study(~ 5 minutes) | Accept
Requester: MPR Lab [AI2G5V8H1U52N] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$[color=Steelblue]13.06[/color]] [Pay=[color=Mediumslateblue]Good[/color]] [Approval=[color=Steelblue]~24 hrs[/color]] [Comm=[color=Mediumslateblue]Good[/color]] [Rej=[color=Steelblue]0[/color]] [Blk=[color=Steelblue]0[/color]]
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Reward: 0.50
Duration: 30:00
Available: 50
Description: Participate in a research task
Qualifications: Exc: [448075622-144739] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; SurveyGroup [2120] DoesNotExist ; Location In US
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I've always used firefox for me watching stuff and chrome to do work stuffs.
I wish my brain worked like yours for simple solutions like this
 

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I wish my brain worked like yours for simple solutions like this
I just always assumed everyone did that. That's how I've set it up since I first started.
 
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Title: Consumer behavior study - 4 minutes(~ 4 minutes) | Accept
Requester: Research Lab [AX1P7C9CDZMBQ] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$[color=Steelblue]12.40[/color]] [Pay=[color=Mediumslateblue]Good[/color]] [Approval=[color=Steelblue]~24 hrs[/color]] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=[color=Steelblue]0[/color]] [Blk=[color=Steelblue]0[/color]]
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Reward: 0.40
Duration: 1:00:00
Available: 89
Description: Watch three 30-second videos and answer multiple choice questions
Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [145329-144740] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US
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TO: [Pay=[color=Mediumslateblue]3.00[/color]] [Fast=[color=Steelblue]4.56[/color]] [Comm=[color=Mediumorchid]1.00[/color]] [Fair=[color=Steelblue]4.56[/color]] [Reviews=18] [ToS=[color=Mediumorchid]2[/color]]
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Duration: 1:00:00
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Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 96; Location EqualTo US
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Title: Survey about current events | Accept
Requester: Lauren Ortosky [AP2VTUHW2MOQJ] Contact
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Duration: 2:00:00
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Description: Short survey on online discussions of political ideologies
Qualifications: Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 85; Location EqualTo US
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You wanna here something funny.. I havent caught a hit all day.. I run a bunch and I catch more and I have no pre's I run a few and i end up with a bunch of pre's
Okay so you still have a little way to go towards understanding how all this works... The PREs begin to occur when you or one of your scripts begin to access MTurk faster than once time every 1 second. PANDA Crazy is designed to automatically prevent PREs from occurring so it will regulate itself to access MTurk only once every 1 second, and PREs will only occur if you change the timing of PANDA Crazy to run faster than once every 1 second or you doing something else like you rapidly complete a bunch of 1-click HITs (A9s) while PANDA Crazy is simultaneously running PANDAs.

Anyyway, the point is if you have 10 PANDAs running at the same time, then PANDA Crazy will not be checking for all 10 of those HITs every 1 second. Instead PANDA Crazy is going to check for the 1st HIT that you've PANDA'ed, and then wait 1 second before it checks for the 2nd HIT you have PANDA'ed, and then wait another second before it checks for the 3rd HIT that you've PANDA'ed...

So essentially, when you are running 10 PANDAs at the same time, PANDA Crazy is only able to check for each of those HITs once every 10 seconds!

So imagine that I have accepted a $10 HIT that you really, really want to catch so you have a PANDA running for it. Now imagine that I have run out of time and need to let the HIT expire. When I return the HIT, it is available again and you are already running a PANDA to catch it...

...but you're not the only one running a PANDA for the same HIT. Imagine 1 other person is trying to catch the HIT at the same time and they have a PANDA running. This is the only PANDA that they are running, but you are running this PANDA and 9 other PANDAs at the same time.

Since your PANDA for this HIT is only able to try to catch it once every 10 seconds, then the other person will catch this HIT instead of you.

Now imagine if the $10 HIT expires from my queue and is returned at 12:51:07PM, then the timing will work out like this:

12:51:00PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:01PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:02PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:03PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
12:51:04PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #5
12:51:05PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #6
12:51:06PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #7
12:51:07PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #8 - I return $10 HIT now
12:51:08PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #9
12:51:09PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #10
12:51:10PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:11PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:12PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:13PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
12:51:14PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #5
12:51:15PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #6
12:51:16PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #7
12:51:17PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #8
12:51:18PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #9
12:51:19PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #10
12:51:20PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:21PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:22PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:23PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
etc...

I really really hope that makes sense to you why running too many PANDAs at once really puts you at a disadvantage when trying to compete with other Turkers when trying to catch HITs.
 
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Title: Select the most interesting, relevant, and overall best dialogue response. | Accept
Requester: Katherine Stasaski [A11GT30VYXMIHB] Contact
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Description: Select the most interesting and relevance dialogue response as well as the best overall response.
Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Location In CA, US
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Okay so you still have a little way to go towards understanding how all this works... The PREs begin to occur when you or one of your scripts begin to access MTurk faster than once time every 1 second. PANDA Crazy is designed to automatically prevent PREs from occurring so it will regulate itself to access MTurk only once every 1 second, and PREs will only occur if you change the timing of PANDA Crazy to run faster than once every 1 second or you doing something else like you rapidly complete a bunch of 1-click HITs (A9s) while PANDA Crazy is simultaneously running PANDAs.

Anyyway, the point is if you have 10 PANDAs running at the same time, then PANDA Crazy will not be checking for all 10 of those HITs every 1 second. Instead PANDA Crazy is going to check for the 1st HIT that you've PANDA'ed, and then wait 1 second before it checks for the 2nd HIT you have PANDA'ed, and then wait another second before it checks for the 3rd HIT that you've PANDA'ed...

So essentially, when you are running 10 PANDAs at the same time, PANDA Crazy is only able to check for each of those HITs once every 10 seconds!

So imagine that I have accepted a $10 HIT that you really, really want to catch so you have a PANDA running for it. Now imagine that I have run out of time and need to let the HIT expire. When I return the HIT, it is available again and you are already running a PANDA to catch it...

...but you're not the only one running a PANDA for the same HIT. Imagine 1 other person is trying to catch the HIT at the same time and they have a PANDA running. This is the only PANDA that they are running, but you are running this PANDA and 9 other PANDAs at the same time.

Since your PANDA for this HIT is only able to try to catch it once every 10 seconds, then the other person will catch this HIT instead of you.

Now imagine if the $10 HIT expires from my queue and is returned at 12:51:07PM, then the timing will work out like this:

12:51:00PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:01PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:02PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:03PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
12:51:04PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #5
12:51:05PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #6
12:51:06PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #7
12:51:07PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #8 - I return $10 HIT now
12:51:08PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #9
12:51:09PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #10
12:51:10PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:11PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:12PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:13PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
12:51:14PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #5
12:51:15PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #6
12:51:16PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #7
12:51:17PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #8
12:51:18PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #9
12:51:19PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #10
12:51:20PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for $10 HIT
12:51:21PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #2
12:51:22PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #3
12:51:23PM - Other Person's PANDA for $10 HIT - Your PANDA for other HIT #4
etc...

I really really hope that makes sense to you why running too many PANDAs at once really puts you at a disadvantage when trying to compete with other Turkers when trying to catch HITs.
I feel like I should give you a Crowd Pleaser banner just for this post. Thank you for taking the time to help.
 

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Title: UMN WebSurf Experiment | Accept
Requester: Rebecca Kazinka [A2T8GLXRGVA783] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$null] [Pay=Unrated] [Approval=Unrated] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0]
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Reward: 5.00
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