03/15 - Woolly Wednesday

I'm still not understanding how the error issue could be related to DOS protection being triggered or something similar, cus when I get the error, I turn on my page refresher for every 5 secs till the site loads... if it was being triggered by catchers doing too many requests or whatever, then it wouldn't make any sense that I can refresh until it loads

 

Wow, 3800!? I ran mine at 3000 earlier and I thought that was too slow. I haven't tried completely turning off my Finder yet. Usually, I just tweak my main timer, search and ham timers, but with little success the last few days. So I work on Prolific as much as possible now.

 

UPenn Researcher [A2M70XENI0CWIR] Behavior Survey (4 minutes; $0.40)(~ 4 minutes) - $0.40 | PANDA

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$8.94 / hour
00:02:41 / completion time

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Pros:

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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; cbabc011 DoesNotExist ; rhsnlk98 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Exc: [-317364109-408843] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

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Chia-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University [A1APLO386FOFPP] **Require Both Smartphone and Laptop/Desktop** Online Shopping Survey(~ 4 minutes) - $0.55 | PANDA

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$11.93 / hour
00:02:46 / completion time

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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-877045014-408850] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs <= 100000; cc55e628 DoesNotExist ; SurveyGroup [7280] DoesNotExist ; rhsnlk98 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location In US;

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Jan Landwehr [A151B2PYXEA86N] Study on Social Interactions(~ 6 minutes) - $0.73 | PANDA

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$9.81 / hour
00:04:28 / completion time

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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; rhsnlk98 >= 100; Exc: [408648-408059] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 85; Location In US;

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I wonder what the chances are they are attempting to address people who are blind catching all the hits, like some of those catchers that have popped up that just pull everything in as fast as possible. Or even just regular catchers

 

I am on a hot spot. I have never had the issue.

 

I was just thinking maybe enough reqs have complained about overall low quality of workers and they are trying to do something to address the complaints... but you're right, its unlikely that Amazon even cares

 

Not that this helps diagnose the issue, but I know that I can cause the error to happen anytime I want. If I go into the main MTurk queue, and perform a few/several right-click + Ctrl accepts of a hit, it will cause the website to give me the error. I did it for science, and shits and giggles! Yeah, that's it!

 

I find that I don't seem to get any PREs with just Forker and PCM. But...I also notice that many HITs never show up there or sometimes just appear after they are gone. For some strange reason, PickFu and Product Pinion never show up at all on Forker...which is why I have to turn on Finder if I want any of those (btw, PickFu has made their time limits longer after I had mentioned in an email to them about the server issue making it harder to try to do their HITs - they actually wanted to know if there were problems occurring).

 

I may have to try my phone's hotspot and see if there is any difference.

 

For people who have done theturker HITs, you may want to check to see if you've been rejected. Two people thus far have come forward saying that their HITs are being mass rejected with the insulting reason of "Con Artist" even if they've sourced all the information they wanted in the first place.

 

Dan Calacci (MIT) [A2CFLAVF2YNI3P] 1 minute pre-screen for study about you and e-commerce for a longer main study (4-7min)(~ 1 minutes) - $0.40 | PANDA

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$32.73 / hour
00:00:44 / completion time

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Pros:
• Paid screener

Cons:

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: rhsnlk98 >= 100; Exc: [13103343-408936] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

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Dan Calacci (MIT) [A2CFLAVF2YNI3P] Study about you and e-commerce (4-7min)(~ 5 minutes) - $1.50 | PANDA

Fair

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$18.31 / hour
00:04:55 / completion time

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Pros:

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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Inc: [19-408924] Exists ; Exc: [409513-408924] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

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Wow, that's definitely the worst rejection feedback I've seen

 

I was running MTS catcher and Finder. Finder had no PREs. Catcher runs 'em up. I was getting nervous and stopped it. I had it going much faster though so that might be why. I never did figure out a good speed.

 

Why give rejection feedback when you can just take free work and call the people working for you stupid instead? Works every time.