01/26 - Spoopy Saturday!

[Kadauchi]

On MTS and contacting a requester:

Expected Error: Strange... something is not right The provided website address is not valid. Below are all HITs available.) This error is only saying that the group id is wrong, not that the message has failed to send. The error happens because of the method used to contact the requester. MTurk requires a group id to send a message to a requester with this method, so a fake one has been used YOURMTURKHIT. When you send a message, MTurk will redirect you back to hit group that you contacted the requester from. Since MTurk Suite is using a fake group id, it fails and displays this error.

 

[4ourfuture]

Title: Dot Motion task (up to $3.00 bonus) [ $ | $ ] PANDA
Requester: NCCLab[AOP3M93Z8HP0]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: Judge the motion and color of a swarm of moving dots.
Duration: 06:00:00
Available: 1
Reward: $6.00
Qualifications:

• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95,
• Location EqualTo US,

This is still floating around.

 

[Daniel]

Title: A Test of Meaning - approx. 15 min. - earn $3.00 on average | Accept Requester: Scott Savage [AT7J2F9ANIQTG] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay=5.00] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=5.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=6] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 3.00 Duration: 1:00:00 Available: 1 Description: We invite you to take part in a research study because you are an Amazon Turk worker located in the United States and who is willing to complete this task for money. Time Allotted: approx. 15 minutes. Reward: $3.00 on average Qualifications: Masters Exists [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.6​

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2:47 $64.40 hourly
Wow

 

[aveline]

Feelsbadman. I'm glad I wasn't there to do their HIT. If this hard block actually counts against you even after he removes it, that would be really bad.

It doesn't really work like that. Requesters only have one type of block at their disposal (besides using quals to block people) and they generally have to enter a reason when they block someone. Blocks can happen for any reason, such as to prevent someone from retaking a survey, to limit the amount of HITs someone can do from a particular batch, or to just deal with someone that has been submitting poor quality work. So when Amazon sees a person accumulating a lot of blocks, they can look at the reasons for the blocks to determine if any action is necessary. I would imagine they can also look at context, like if a requester unfairly decides to block every person that did their HIT, when making their decision. I think the only blocks that you really need to worry about are the ones that come from subbing poor quality work.

 

[A6_Foul_Out]

this is why throwing out “you should block everyone” all willy nilly is dangerous advice. especially to a requester who doesn’t know how to work things out on mTurk 100%. he’s getting there, but not all the way yet

that stanford requester is incompetent.

he doesn't know what he's doing. This was back when the work was the fire 90/hour answer the questions batch.

he doxes people in email chains exposing peoples names/emails.

somebody REALLY needs to be supervising whoever is on that requester account.

 

[Sondi]

Title: Simple 15-Minute Task for $2.00(~ 15 minutes) | Accept Requester: Martin Abel [A33HVWBJO0P3WS] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: [Hrly=12.00] [Pen=null] [Res=null] [Rec=100%] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 2.00 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 12 Description: Transcribe a few short receipts to earn $2.00 in no longer than 15 minutes Qualifications: Exc: [-2027230569-125580] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 50; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.6​

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Time: 07:55
Hourly: $15.13

 

[HelloHello]

Title: An idea generation task | Accept Requester: Petronella [A1ZJYTUT3A80MX] Contact TV: [Hrly=$15.27] [Pay=4.07] [Fast=null] [Comm=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=1.53] [Fast=2.08] [Comm=2.50] [Fair=3.17] [Reviews=45] [ToS=0] TO2: [Hrly=0.00] [Pen=1.00 days] [Res=0%] [Rec=0%] [Rej=1] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 1.90 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 1 Description: In this survey, we would ask you to generate ideas for a new product Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.6​

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[theturkscribe]

PE $3.91

 

[Windir]

 

[aveline]

:grimacing:

 

[lil queen trashmouth]

Snow is really coming down again... guess I won't go to the gym

 

[Nikoratos]

This is the second time today that I've been doing a HIT and considered the possibility that what they're actually studying is how mundane and completely unremarkable media content needs to be in order to get an Mturk worker to abandon a task once they've passed the halfway point.

 

[Nikoratos]

Snow is really coming down again... guess I won't go to the gym

Why go to the gym when you've got a perfectly good driveway to shovel?

 

[Concise]

Hi, I'm bleary eyed and almost awake. Content Research periodically puts up qual hits when they want to add new workers to the mix. Then you have to do a set number of them. I can't remember exactly how many. Chris is usually pretty savvy about all of it, so I'm not sure why he is saying there are a lot of them up if there aren't any. When the qual hits have come up in the past, they showed up on whatever script I was using to search requesters even though I'm not qualified for them.

That is also what I observed, thus I am confused by the response. I've already put a time chunk into this, so will focus on paying work. I appreciate you sharing your success with this requester in the past @Turtlefemm . Maybe things will sort out.

 

[Kennedy]

Afternoon everyone! Just checking in and avoiding paying bills and finishing taxes by pretending to be busy on mturk.

 

[Concise]

Victorias

 

[Concise]

This is the second time today that I've been doing a HIT and considered the possibility that what they're actually studying is how mundane and completely unremarkable media content needs to be in order to get an Mturk worker to abandon a task once they've passed the halfway point.

Can relate.

 

[aveline]

 

[teal4life]

Thanks for feedback. It took 3 years of annually emailing STR11223344 to get the qual... so it worked there. With a little persistence. Sometimes it's been so long since you qualled for something, it's hard to remember how it was done.

Yes, I felt the same about your STR qual.

 

[aveline]

Title: Demographics survey | PANDA Requester: Panos Ipeirotis [A3DL93QTPE513P] (Contact) TV: [Hrly: $22.85] [Pay: 4.52] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.42] [Fast: 4.68] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 4.92] [Reviews: 64] [ToS: 1] TO2: [Hrly: ---] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Reward: $0.10 Description: Demographics survey Requirements: