12/18 - White-out Wednesday!

Wow! You did a really good job on those!!

 

"Certainly it can't be as bad as TV shows" he says, before being greeted with hands down the stupidest fucking bot checks of 2019.

 

I've been keeping up on mturk twitter a bit since the article you wrote a response to a little while ago.... some of the things I read about bots

 

Yeah, that whole standing up thing from basically anywhere but full standing is getting more and more challenging. I have to force myself not to groan or say "oof!" half the time because I refuse to give into that. Yet. But I will. Sooner than I want, lol.

 

Oh, um... I have already given up, so I think your'e doing fine

 

Title: Investigating recognition memory (~15min) | PANDA
Requester: MSPS Complex Human Data Hub [A31EO81GH4ZF5T]
TurkerView: [ $36.10 / hour ]
Description: We will present you with a list of items, afterwhich you will be tested on your memory.
Duration: 180 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $2.50
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100,
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95,
• Location EqualTo US,

[3O5YJYPUSX1FXDOHZKQHWBP845IKOX]​

 

@A6_Foul_Out can confirm there is no way you've seen the worst of it.

My personal fav is the researcher who was SPECIFICALLY RECRUITING INDIAN WORKERS and kept Grinching about "bots" in her open ended questions. MULTIPLE TIMES. FOR MONTHS.

 

No experiment link

 

I've almost replied to a few of these and it would be my first twitter post . I'm using one I made up to take part in a hit. Now I have Amazon watching me lol.

 

It says I've already done their experiment in bright yellow box. Not sure what it shows up for others.

 

Still haven't posted anything, I got that after I liked a few of yours.

 

Title: Answer a survey about refugees | PANDA
Requester: bimbisar irom [A1AVV7DKMZP7BX]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: 20 minute survey about refugees
Duration: 60 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $1.00
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs GreaterThan 100,
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95,
• Location EqualTo US,

[3CVHT3IKTXQXBDLTGO7XIZULP3D0RP]​

 

Honestly I try to help as much as I can but it's the same as reddit.. sometimes it's just not worth even trying to make a comment. Once you recognize that not every single problem can be solved it's less stressful/frustrating more hilariously infuriating

 

For a fair self critique: a req asked me to fix their uni affiliation

I have a proper irb form, it matches their uni, it's not on any of the conflict lists, and it's still not working so really who am I to judge b/c I'm just as dumb as anyone else on the planet b/c I've been staring at this for 20 minutes now with not even a clue

 

Had a similar realization today as I was responding to a requester's email explaining fair pay for the third time They seemed receptive at first, but like if you don't think you're pay is shit, I can't force you to get it either

 

Yep. Gotta pick your battles. I try to help people around here if I think I know what I'm talking about, but I'm a lot less willing on other platforms. I appreciate that you're willing to get out there. Even here sometimes I get the I'm entitled to your help vibe and .........

 

it's no use, the "getting up" noise is going to come out sooner or later, whether you like it or not

oof away

 

Still every time I see bot used as a substitute for bad turker, I just

 

Title: Categorize which books are about a given subject | PANDA
Requester: BookAuthority [A3L0EB1WCR7F9A]
TurkerView: [ $4.44 / hour ]
Description: Go over a list of 50 books, and help us identify which books are about a given subject. Most subjects are related to business / technology / science.
Duration: 180 Min
Available: 2
Reward: $0.15
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs GreaterThan 10000,
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95,
• Location In AU, CA, GB, NZ, US,

[34YHZZ9RB3JHHOITR77K7NC99A35EY]​

 

On the flip side, I've seen academics argue they shouldn't even use the term "Turker"

And then I'm like.. maaaaybe we've gotten too far off track in the wrong direction btw @NBadger need you on the TV rebrand as well, can't use this name anymore