03/30 -Throuple Thursday

Might try to give TurkGuru a look soon... problem is I will have to cancel QBC to do so cus money is that tight, and I've grown dependent on it. Afraid if I cancel I will start having the problems others are having when its time to re-activate, if needed.

QBC has been generally good for me, although the processing usage is quite high at times. I am getting worried about the general lack of presence regarding continued support since doing this work is how I pay for everything

The sleep feature in QBC is also extremely useful

 

first thing, open your dashboard and set your minimum dollar amount. then, your search rate. I'm using 15 sec but it really depends on your other things running.

 

what's the sleep feature?

 

I set mine to 1 second because turking has become a secondary site for me now and I don't get much so I need it to try for everything it can and I can just sit and forget.

 

oh, so there is a free trial? right click reqs in mts finder and select guru to set up your favorite requestors. Especially for ones like Noah and Remesh that have several req ids.

 

You can set QBC to "sleep" for any given period time, 5min to however many hours, and then leave QBC running and it will actively monitor hits/catch stuff based on how long the hit timer is.

So if you set it to sleep for 1 hour, it won't try to catch any hits with a 10min timer. Once you come out of sleep, it will automatically create catchers for any hits still available that you missed. You can also specify your favorite watchers to ignore the sleep feature, something I use frequently to avoid really annoying hits - set it to sleep for 3 hours and then it will only try to catch the good stuff that I have specified to ignore sleep

 

The other feature I really view as a necessity at this point is Push Notifications... there are 3 apps you can use with QBC to send push notifications to your phone when new hits come in, when a fav req posts a hit, etc.

This is a feature I can't easily live without

 

I feel like there are only a handful of us obsessive types that would regularly use that but it sounds awesome. I get so irritated when I think I'm in the mood for something only to realize I'm about to return a $12 hit.

 

The main advantage people use the sleep for is setting it to 8 hours while sleeping over night... wake up in the morning to a queue full of hits (not lately tho)

 

yeah but I've also heard y'all Grinch about irregular sleep and forgetting and losing $

 

My life is too unpredictable for 8 hours of sleep. I have horrible arthritis that cuts my sleeping at one time time and people like me so when I feel like peopling, I have an active social life.

 

yea I just defaulted to 8 hours in the example... but even aside from overnight, I use the sleep feature constantly. Making dinner, doing chores, running to the store, feeling pissed off at Jesus, etc.

 

I don't know wtf 8 hours sleep is lol. I sleep like 5. I'm probably going to die sooner than later I'm sure

 

I've always been a very heavy sleeper and its extremely hard for me to function on small amounts of sleep. Whenever I have normal jobs and I end up getting like 4 hours of sleep regularly, its f'n hell. I feel optimal at about 10 hours of sleep on a regular night. There's been some research showing everyone has different needs for sleep, some need very little, some need the average amount and some need a lot.

I wish so bad that I could function on smaller amounts and it always bothers me that I feel like crap without a lot, but that's my body

 

do you have sleep apnea?

 

Well that Prolific run was good while it lasted. Now it's dry again.

 

Today was crazy!

 

Honestly I don't know what I might have since I haven't had health insurance or seen a doctor in over 10 years... since I just got health insurance from the govt, I plan on asking about this when I get around to making an appointment. There are several related things I wonder about

But its been like this my entire life, even when I was young, so I don't think its something commonly related to older age or anything. Although its maybe even more pronounced now

Really interferes with my weed smoking, cus if I smoke a lot, it makes my sleep even heavier

 

I'm glad our goading made you finally ask for a handout j/k for real though. sleep apnea makes peoples sleep not productive and so they end up requiring more. Schedule a checkup ASAP!

 

With TurkGuru tho, I'm guessing there's no way to enable push notifications? That's the other really huge feature for me. Being able to get notifications of caught hits or when the good hits post is a game changer... enough so that I actually purchased a push app and I never buy apps