02/01 - Wonderous Wednesday!

Title: University of Maryland Website Study (Longitudinal study: <5 min/wk 4 weeks up to $10) | PANDA Requester: UMD [AD2393HBWYI6R] (Contact) TO: [Comm: 5.00] [Pay: 3.17] [Fair: 5.00] [Fast: 4.33] [Reviews: 6] [ToS: 0] Description: University of Maryland would like you to test out a website. Time: 4 weeks 4 days HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: None

 

Oh, you meant that 10,000....
I thought you meant 10,000 of the interests hits.
My bad.
Carry on.

 

Title: Survey on Predicting Behavior(~ 15 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Adam Hahn [A3VDEAS9T52P3W] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 4.44] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: 5.00] [Reviews: 9] [ToS: 0] Description: $1.50 for a 15 to 20-min.-study on predicting behavior Time: 45 minutes HITs Available: 28 Reward: $1.50 Qualifications: Exc: [29584-28995] DoesNotExist ; TP Panel: 234912493 N GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Location In US;

HIT posted from Mturk Suite v1.3.7​

 

I feel like I've done 10k of them.

 

He wont. The relevant code is:

Code:

function sendit(tf, pd, symbol, sid)
{
if (is_preview_mode())
{
alert("Sorry, you need to accept this HIT in order to start the survey. Please tap the Accept HIT button to get started.");
return;
}
if (!math_captcha(current_seed))
{
return false;
}
var sendit_url = "https://yp83etk8d5.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod?oid=59&sid=" + sid + "&tf=" + tf + "&pd=" + pd + "&symbol=" + symbol + "&source=MechTurk&contestid=0";
if (ie == "")
{
$.ajax({
url: "https://yp83etk8d5.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/ie?Method=getpredictorid&ExternalIdentifier=" + get_worker_id(),
method: 'GET'
}).then(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
ie = data;
if (ie)
{
$.ajax({
url: sendit_url + "&ie=" + ie,
method: 'GET'
}).then(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// Done function
console.log("response with new ie " + ie + " is " + data);
successful_transmissions[sid] = pd;
update_progress();
},
function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// Fail function
update_progress();
}
);
}
});
}
else
{
$.ajax({
url: sendit_url + "&ie=" + ie,
method: 'GET'
}).then(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// Done function
console.log("response is " + data);
successful_transmissions[sid] = pd;
update_progress();
},
function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// Fail function
update_progress();
}
);
}
}

Essentially on your first vote it grabs your worker ID from the HIT and submits that to his application and returns some history of your work w/ him or whatever data he has tagged w/ your workerId, then submits your vote data (0/1, 0/1, SYMBOL, Unique # Identifier) w/ your worker data for that and all subsequent votes. Each successful submission (the post & response) triggers an addition to the successful_transmissions variable and carries forward.

It is entirely possible that sometimes the request gets sent and processed by the API server and occasionally the script fails in the response process, but highly unlikely and for anything more than 2-3 is probably impossible.

There is no way to "fix" this. If his application is unresponsive only he can fix it, the only thing the force submit script does is tell his script to piss off and send the results to mTurk, where he can retrieve them later. But for his application's purposes (probably processing your data for predictwallstreet) you blank him by doing that.

I know I'm beating the dead horse here, just want to be explicitly clear on whats going on. By all accounts the dude does not give a crap and wont reject for it, but I think its really, really important to explain whats going on so people don't think that script is actually "fixing" the issue. There is always a chance he goes back through and blocks people for submitting a bunch of blank data when he needs votes for his stupid website, or bounces from the platform entirely because folks are using a script they don't understand beyond "It makes me free $$$$$" to force submission through his checks.

 

Another HIT to worry about accidentally returning when I'm dumping a queue's worth of "no tasks available" Pins.

 

That's my.... mom?

 

They're gone already anyway

 

Title: Transcribe Product Details from Product Image - First HIT $2.00 bonus | PANDA Requester: Matt Garner [A3E68Y3V2QD0IE] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 3.78] [Fair: 4.40] [Comm: 4.67] [Fast: 4.71] [Reviews: 21] [ToS: 0] Description: Update product brand, name, and package size from product image Time: 20 minutes HITs Available: 5 Reward: $0.13 Qualifications: ShopHero Grocery Product Image Transcription Qualification v1 is not less than 1; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.3.7​

 

I only took 187 of them

 

i won't be recommending that script to anyone anymore. had no idea he wasn't getting the data if it was used

 

"Have you voted for our January sHIT Poster of the Month award?"

 

290

 

Isn't posting hits the least shit posty thing that you can do on these forums?

 

I only took 75