11/06 - Self Care Saturday

Does anyone else find it weird that buttons on the internet make the little hand cursor/pointer show up but checkboxes don't? It's started to irk me lately & idk why it's like that.. most other 'interactive' elements give you the pressy finger button

 

Especially on websites that turn them into the on/off switches



BUTTON ITS A BUTTON GIB CORRECT CURSOR

 

Is that official terminology? I learn new things here everyday!

 

Live footage of CT when reading this:

 

Anne Wilson [A194WCO8PS67EO] Short Survey on Perception of Pharmaceutical(~ 2 minutes) - $0.10 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$4.29 / hour
00:01:24 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 4 seconds ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [329465-328876] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 500; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; CR Research Group #1 >= 100; Location In US;

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Xiang Fang [A28TSIIOXK39TV] Consumers' responses to service robots(~ 10 minutes) - $0.50 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$4.27 / hour
00:07:02 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: one minute ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs <= 50000; Exc: [329443-328854] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 500; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; CR Research Group #1 >= 100; Location In US;

To read Xiang Fang's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

It was his plan all along. That article about him making $4.8 million a year was prophetic.

 

I wish I could have 1/10th the moral fibre to shit on random people I don't know while also taking a salary from.. oh no

 

yo what an actual piece of shit he wasn't @reddit when he originally threw out that hot take now I'm all fired up thanks @ceedj

 

I'd be really surprised if QBC had even over 1000 active subscribers, haha.

 

Bet that got marked as "unremarkable" too.

CALLBACK FTW!

 

Even this is an absolutely wild overestimation I don't think 1,000 people total have ever even tried the app let alone actually paid for it LOL

 

...you're apparently here a lot more than your post history lets on to be burning me this bad on a random saturday sir

 

Indeed, I think I know maybe 30 people who have it. I'd estimate 100-200 max, but I could be wildly off. It's too expensive to be useful for many people, and there's quite a few people who use a combination of other apps.

 

Discovered http://100r.co/ today - a couple (she's a writer and illustrator and he's a programmer and musician) that bought a "research" sailboat and now live on it, sailing all over the world and doing all kinds of cool quirky tech projects (and I mean really really really quirky). Am currently deep down their rabbit hole. They seem like the craziest but also somehow some of the most productive people I've read about.

 

Man I just had to do the math LOL.. If y'all think I make $250,000/yr and still post on this forum about Twitch study streams and working in a 95* office in the summer I have some serious questions to ask about how those things get reconciled

Yea it's just not really ever going to be worth it for the vast majority of folks, which is totally cool & not a problem I only crack jokes because of how nuts that dude's math was lol

 

How do I navigate this site it's in black/white with no moving pictures

 

I am unironically having a moment of realization how much I depend on UX researchers who have perfectly crafted my experience on the web and made me completely dependent on brightly colored buttons to navigate to what I actually want to find

 

Indeed. It's a convenience thing for me, but there's some people to whom $20 is like losing a couple days goal.

I have 5k pandas in PC, and a combination with other scripts worked well enough for me that I would be nearly as productive. Having everything in one spot, and a responsive and active developer was the biggest sell.

I calculated that my average was $30ish/hrly, and that over the course of the month, QBC had saved me over an hour in just swapping tabs/screens. When working 3 hrs avg each day, the lost time adds up, and it's been definitely worth it for me.

Edit: Mandatory @AlexZ