05/14 - Smooth Sunday!

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I read it the whole time thinking Mindsparks and if it is something of that pay level broken up, then it's doable. He said some of them are hard and buried in forums, so one would expect to start at 50 cents plus per hit if you're digging that deep. A penny a pop, raised to 3 for hard ones and no pay for not found, that'll sink him quick. But who am I kidding, the TO will tank, but if it's qualled people will do it just because they have a qual.

 

Today's Projected Earnings: $34.38 (Exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.10)

Spoiler: Today's Projected Earnings - Requester Breakdown

Requester	HITs	Value
UserBob	1	$9.40
Patrick Nicholson	96	$8.64
BIU NLP	100	$4.00
The Marsh Lab	1	$3.00
Jeffrey Du	50	$2.50
edina	2	$1.20
Marco Meyer	1	$1.20
Biyun Hu	1	$1.00
Nathaniel Swigger	1	$1.00
Research Group	1	$0.66
John P Taylor	1	$0.50
YouTube Artist	5	$0.40
Research Z Lab	1	$0.30
Samuel Gershman	1	$0.25
J Berman	1	$0.25
OCMP46	1	$0.08

Be back later. Hopefully something more than $5/hour drops.

 

I think that's the second account he used according to my research. The one before that was like Sophie something (don't quote me, I'm bad at those guesses). People said those two got banned. The one he uses now is the James account.

 

I remember people talking about that HIT - supposedly it was a huge mess, the TO was a disaster, and the whole HIT was just horribly guided and a mess. Probably one of the worse requesters on mTurk.

 

more CAM batch pwease

 

I didn't think it was anything like Mindsparks because of the need to have variable searches. MS is painfully straightforward, its all on one website, and its just mindless click/copy/paste work. If he's expecting people to go digging through the dredges of Google cache its way closer to VRAPI than MS. I'd agree w/ the MS thing if he had a set search expectation but it didn't sound like that from the way I read it :S I wish requesters would post examples of their tasks haha!

The big thing is though if you give workers a 'cannot be found' button on a task like that you're screwed from the get-go. I've spoken to numerous reqs who have people who either outright scam it or the really smart ones (and the ones who completely destroy the entire project) lie on a certain % of HITs. So they'll do 5-6 correctly then just auto-mark 1 or 2 as 'cannot be found' and enjoy a "free" 20% pay bump

Weeding those out is incredibly difficult with variable search tasks, and doing so guarantees your TO is going to get tanked anyway (RIP Eitan).

Just try to imagine VRAPI w/ a "can't be identified button" - so many people would use it and then folks like you going over those answers would probably laugh and reject 90% of them immediately hahaha.

 

Yes that is it! Thanks! Yes, I got in on their 2nd batch as a manager ( after the original mess) and did very well for 30 minutes of work.

I "caught " the James hit this week and sent it back when I saw what it was.. way too much work for a "maybe".

 

Title: Miscellaneous(~ 900 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Meghan [A36AYES47ZRR96] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 2.67] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 10] [ToS: 0] TO 2: Not Available Description: survey Time: 30 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.25 Qualifications: Inc: [19-43120] has been granted; Location is one of: US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.10​

I know it's probably a dummy HIT, but still. 4/5 pay

 

Has AP been slow? I requested a payment to my bank account last night and it's still pending.

 

dgis got to actually moving faster earlier today, then went back to slower than a snail moving thru molasses

 

Yes, I've been waiting about 18 hours longer than I normally do for my money to post.

 

That and some other issues. They commonly ask for Paypal information to send payment there, and some people mentioned that they ask for that and other information in the shared documents where people bid on the jobs or something. So, everyone who's a part of the document can see your Paypal, MTurk ID, and whatever other info they require you to share. The three TOs I found are riddled with different concerns.

 

prob be Monday

 

maybe mothers day messed them up