01/04 - TurkerHub Thursday - Best Of 2017 & Changes for 2018

Howdy do folks!

So sorry for being late on this but not being in town wasn't in the game plan for EOY stuff. Seems site traffic was pretty dead anyway so maybe a good thing.

TurkerHub in 2017
2017 was pretty much epic for TurkerHub. Our community has flat out exploded, and I'm fairly confident saying we're now the most active mTurk community despite being the youngest by far. The features on this site & its extensions are helping to build a much more positive & profitable ecosystem around the mTurk platform and I'm super stoked about reviewing the growth of this site for this post.

Excluding December data (which heavily skews the metrics because of the massive influx of people from the worker transition) we've grown massively this year:



Which is cool, but not super unexpected for a brand new site. The nice thing is that its been a very steady, consistent growth across the year:


In any case, I just want to say thank you & I appreciate everyone who hangs out here. Its very rewarding to take a look at the site and see the data behind the growth that is apparent every time I log in and go "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!?" so hopefully the snippets above are interesting to y'all as well. I feel like the adoption of this place by users from all pieces & parts of the mTurk community is amazing positive validation of the great things we do here, so love y'all AS ALWAYS

Aaaand of course I'm even more excited for 2018 with TurkerView really starting to take off & all the general improvements and room for growth both sites have in store as they become more mature, polished websites (say 5 facebook prayers for every line of code I go back and re-write this year, please).

Now on to the meat & potatoes...

Best Ofs 2017 Edition

Most HITs Posted / Noms Received for '17
# HITs	Noms	Member
4,325	32,384	@BadPanda
4,020	18,933	@WimpLo
3,933	25,652	@Randomacts
3,082	22,055	@gurlondrums
2,789	15,257	@laby
2,272	21,205	@Confirmed Robot
2,126	18,705	@Salamander
1,749	19,264	@MNHammer
1,658	14,816	@lefty
1,548	9,845	@SAJ

Funniest Posts of '17
Title	Ratings	Member
Welp I have to de-mod you for this its been fun BadgerBro	35	@NBadger
TurkerHub Training Video	27	@SeDuCeR
I believe this happened	23	@Girl Polar Bear
We legit haven't seen him since	22	@Bobby
Thanks, mTurk!	21	@slothbear
May this joke die with the new year (...pls?)	21	@Melting Glacier

Most Useful Posts of '17
Title	Ratings	Member
Chrome 57+ Throttling	17	@Kadauchi
Backups, backups, and more backups	13	@Cosmo
PC <-> OW Handshakes	13	@ceedj
Intro to mTurk Scripting	12	@Ethraiel
Usertesting Guide	10	@lefty

The final tally is going to be a little bit different because so many of them included a bunch of people here, not just any one singular post. I'd say its a testament to how awesome our community is when it comes together for stuff, honestly, and I'm a fan of recognizing everyone involved

Most Loved Community Moments of '17
Title	Ratings	Member
Adorable Mod in Training	59	@GreenMachine842 @jessers @leafs4_cup @Buzby @Jesicu @Hummingbirdee @Celtic Lady @laby (to my knowledge only one of these people actually had anything to do with creating a baby, but then again I can't prove this so )
Cotton Anniversary	53	@jdzane @Buzby @NBadger @SamAnt
A Year on the Hub	44	@NBadger @lefty @angel @jessers @WimpLo @ThisPoorGuy @GoldGuardian@Tripsa @laby @Hummingbirdee @knottypiper @jamer @Celtic Lady @Buzby @Girl Polar Bear @GreenMachine842 @gurlondrums @jdzane @Jesicu @Melting Glacier @Polar Bear
Mental Illness Awareness	35	@humbleturker
A Fitting Success Story	32	@CheshireKitty

Finally, A Note On 2018 Awards
I just want to note some probable changes for 2018's Awards stuffs:

Instead of doing monthly awards, which largely rules out a lot of folks who can't dedicate a huge amount of time to what is often a 'side gig' type of platform, I'm (barring convincing arguments against this) going to move all awards to weekly honors. I'm hoping this lets more folks not only get involved but keep everything more fresh/time relevant.

To balance it out for the folks who are around a lot the Members section of the site will be extended w/ "leaderboards" of sorts for # of total badge honors (or whatever you'd like to call them) so you can still build up the positive reps across time.

All of them will rotate weekly instead of monthly now and will be included in the Monday stats threads. In lieu of weekly voting (...nightmare IMO) it'll probably be a balance/combo of HITs/Reviews Posted & Noms/Reviews for Gem Poster, the weighting on which I'll adjust over time like I did for most of the awards as I finagled my way through what worked in 2017 lol. Probably wont be doing weekly monetary awards out of sheer laziness (jk - in reality I don't think the money ever was a huge motivator for folks [which is good] and farming it week-in/week-out seems weird, if I wanted to do that I'd just go base pot split across folks by % of contribution not winner-takes-all. But most of all mixing reviews & money is territory I'd like to not venture into, and with the pandas now attached to the TV exports I'm straying away from it ASAP).

TL;DR:

 

And happy birthday @Girl Polar Bear ... I think. Maybe. Not real sure if that's accurate or if @ThisPoorGuy paid you $10 for the MG birthday treatment

 

Could've sworn it was the 4th though

 

...

you saw NOTHING.

 

https://gyazo.com/10ab3efa8b446f1cb58adf4ec643b2a1
Sent to The Turk Times sucka

 

If you haven't updated your computer in the last 12 hours or so you should go check for updates...

https://meltdownattack.com/

I don't feel like doing a write up on it again but intel shit has a huge vuln so you need to update yo shit.

Windows 7 / 8 prob will have to wait until update Tuesday.

Windows Vista and older get fucked lol

AMD chips are mostly not affected by this but just update yo shit and you will be fine.

 

Bravo to all. Glad I was around for all but three of the posts. @GreenMachine842 I'll make sure to be around the next time you birth a baby. I was (most likely) nearest to the birth anyway so that's neat.

 

@Girl Polar Bear

 

I don't want to leave the 01/03 version of this thread but I must sleep.

 

Title: Answer questions about performing customer service. | Accept Requester: Zel - Business [A33M0S84H9THBG] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 4] [ToS: 1] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $10.00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Available: 1 Description: This test assesses principles and core subjects of customer service applicable to entry- and mid-level customer service roles. Requirements: Masters Exists; Location In AU, BR, CA, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, JP, KR, US; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 50

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.0.11​

 

Title: Examining the Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Medical Decision Making(~ 18 minutes) | Accept Requester: Satia Marotta [AS8XZMLCHXWMW] Contact TV: [Hrly: $16.34] [Pay: 4.50] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.10] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 12] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: $16.77] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $3.00 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Provide your impressions of hypothetical candidates for organ transplant. Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; TP Panel: 234912493 N GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [40376598-69234] DoesNotExist; Location In US

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.0.11​

 

For real today or like the other 364 days?

 

Every day is her birthday.

Happy birthday @Girl Polar Bear