05/14 - Tuned Tuesday!

And there she sat, in her weathered, brown chair, with squeaky wheels, the sunlight barely shining through her window. Her tap-tap-tap on the keyboard, now increasingly ached with carpal tunnel with each tap-tap-tap. She slowly navigated to her PANDA (an archaic term, meaning "trying to catch a HIT") just to discover, it had turned the dreaded, horrifying color purple. Which, in mturk terminology, means she has just lost her job. C-Sats Inc., performed one of the most dirty, underhanded, insulting tricks a requester could do: Joan has been blocked from completing another C-Sat task ever, ever again. With a defeated sigh, she rolls her squeaky chair away from the dusty, cluttered desk. She makes her way through the dark, cold room. What was once an inviting spare bedroom, now a torturous dungeon in which she performs her menial tasks. She'll return tomorrow, hoping, just hoping, she might get another qualification for another $6/hr requester, so she might be able to buy that new black chair, with brand new wheels. Wheels that don't squeak in disgust of the horrors it has supported her through on this evil, selfish, opportunistic, offensive platform.
(Curtain.)

 

Fin.

 

Justin Berg [A1VVMP86F8GP7D] Categorizing Musicians Survey (~20 Minutes) - $2.50 | PANDA

Generous

<24 hours

Excellent

$17.31 / hour
00:08:40 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:
Had some issues with the submit button after completing the task, and contacted the requester. Received a quick response, and instructions on how to proceed.

Cons:

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) >= 98; Location EqualTo US;

To read Justin Berg's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Thanks I hate it.

 

Some of us in that 75% wish we didn't have to rely on mturk in addition to a full time job.

But I'm also not doing terrible...I mean, I hope I'm not. Some of my hourly is much slower than others because I'm old and slow, has nothing to do with the other job, lol!

 

BioNLP at UMass Medical School [A1N8UKWFP9RA6X] Answer a survey about what words you know and answer questions based on a short paragraph.text - $2.75 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$14.62 / hour
00:11:17 / completion time

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Pros:
accurate progress bar

Cons:
Not fun

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 90; PastVocabularyTesters DoesNotExist ; Location EqualTo US;

To read BioNLP at UMass Medical School's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

https://turkerview.com/requesters/A3RXXNTGSUSTQ9-siddharth-suri
*sorts by lowest hourly*
omg those poor workers

 

I have research that says that I should make up stuff to continue to get grant money.

 

rip @dan

 

The top review is literally $3/hr diatribe out of his book.

And you people tell me the points for writing are a bad idea

 

New Requester Profile!

Chan Thai [A3VF2REZLN6H1V] Survey about Food Brands - $0.75 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated

$9.93 / hour
00:04:32 / completion time

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Pros:
Takes less time then estimated, mostly easy.

Cons:
Repetitive and somewhat tedious.

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 95; Location EqualTo US;

To read Chan Thai's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

You need to work your SEO magic so that his TV page actually comes up when you google his name.

 

Possibly make a .01c task on mturk to help

 

@ChrisTurk

 

No way I can compete w/ all the crap he self publishes sadly.. only that thing would do it is a massively long winded blog post Grinching about his stupid book

I can, however, just change TV's homepage to be a picture of this image

 

MSPS Complex Human Data Hub [A31EO81GH4ZF5T] Mx_1 rating task (~15min) - $2.50 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$75.00 / hour
00:02:00 / completion time

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Pros:
This was straight fire. Likely the best thing I have done in forever given what is being asked and how long this took.

Cons:
there aren't more of these

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location EqualTo US;

To read MSPS Complex Human Data Hub's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Everyone like this post so that this shows up when you google ChrisTurk.

 

MSPS Complex Human Data Hub [A31EO81GH4ZF5T] IR_1 rating task (~15min) - $2.50 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$52.02 / hour
00:02:53 / completion time

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Pros:
Sweet hourly. I honestly dont feel this could take much longer considering how easy it was to realize what was a good answer, and what was bad.

Cons:

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location EqualTo US;

To read MSPS Complex Human Data Hub's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Everyone is raging, and I realized I could use Bearnie's face for gifs.

 

These guys just spammed up everyone's scraper, though?