01/16 - Tuned-in Tuesday!

Ok, now I will be negative.

In your experience, have you ever been benefited by someone keeping information from you? I sure haven't and I'm old as water.

-No total HITs
-Truncated history
-Snap redirects for GID/RID misses
-Simplified (dumbed down) URL references

I don't like it, not one bit, and that has nothing to do with the UI dumbing I don't like which could be chalked up to personal preference (but it's not, I know I'm right).

So far the tap is still on but the loss of information... I don't think Amazon ever really wanted the Script community and power that grew up around their original framework, and it's clear to me that Worker is a Reset on their oh-so-precious Bezomort information magic dust.

 

Does anyone else notice some weird things going on in their queue?

Yesterday, I had an Audiokite HIT in my queue, but I blocked them awhile ago, so I have no idea how it got in there. Today, I completed a survey by Jeff Foster, but in my queue the requester's name was listed as "Brandon Ferrell" -- and this is also the name that appears in my daily summary (under "Pending"). Just to be sure, I scrolled down in my Overwatch search results, and I saw the HIT listed under the name "Jeff Foster". So I am wondering if Amazon, in general, is having some glitches for anyone else...

 

Title: Short survey about advertising [ $ | $ ] PANDA
Requester: james white [A2V3OSAZ50H02H]
TurkerView: [ $5.47 / hour Low | Unrated | Unrated ]
Description: Ten minute survey about advertising and products
Duration: 00:20:00
Available: 1
Reward: $0.10
Qualifications:

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

[3D3KZYB02J4ZJTYFQ4TYF7XL15WV8U]​

 

kad knows about it, i'm sure he's working on a fix

 

Alexander Goldklank Fulmer [AG2O1CINNLO0A] Impressions of Objects(~ 3 minutes) - $0.40 | PANDA

[3VLZR8QBMU5FYZDIUVXJ4ALBELIPRV]​

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$28.80 / hour
00:00:50 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

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ETH DeSciL [A13FVLMLUTH7ND] Study on Policy Preferences - $1.80 | PANDA

[3AHPWNJ8URPRSCRFJ3K9GE1V3F9KY2]​

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$28.67 / hour
00:03:46 / completion time

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Pros:
-Requester is always pretty generous
-Approves quickly
-Always has an alternate way to submit if there is a problem.
Cons:

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Alexander Goldklank Fulmer [AG2O1CINNLO0A] Impressions of Objects(~ 3 minutes) - $0.40 | PANDA

[3VLZR8QBMU5FYZDIUVXJ4ALBELIPRV]​

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$35.12 / hour
00:00:41 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

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Title: Learn about complex systems in the world. | Accept Requester: Sydney Cognition [A21OFQ19MUOFK] Contact TV: [Hrly: $14.72] [Pay: 4.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.12] [Fast: 4.47] [Comm: 3.40] [Fair: 4.75] [Reviews: 28] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: ---] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $8.00 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes Available: 1 Description: Watch a series of videos on complex phenomena that occur in the world, and then rate statements which best describe the video. Requirements: None

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.3​

 

Your gripes are:

- A teeny tiny overlooked stat? That is fairly expensive to retrieve (counting every single available HIT in the entire system) for little value since it is inherently misleading to begin with (available to who? with what conditions? it certainly was never indicative of actual work that could be done).
- Something that is patently & ridiculously false, since we now have 150 days of history at our beckon (english is too difficult) call, and it is orders of magnitude easier to parse & access.
- Offset by the much more efficient segregation of page requests, really the only reason people don't like this is because of freeware they rely on instead of understanding the platform themselves.
- ...I got nothing I guess, I have no idea what this even means.

Trust me, you have far more power now in relation to what you had on www. You just don't know what you don't know.

 

It's a doggy dog world out there.

 

RIP.

Why didn't autocorrect highlight it, I can't be bothered to make sure I don't sound like a dumbass 24/7, where is spellchecknet when you need it.

 

oas_columbia [A3ED046HHT8WLJ] Play a ball tossing game and answer a questionnaire about your emotions for the chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card! - $0.50 | PANDA

[3S8DC08I1IF8XECTGX6AAS4U1EJJEZ]​

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$2.62 / hour
00:11:26 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:
underpaid
slow
small print

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Idiomcheck doesn't exist, unfortunately.

 

Don't worry, I had to double check, because I was like maaaaybe I've been wrong this whole time.

 

For all intensive porpoises, I hole-hardedly agree with Chris.