09/04 - Wacky Wednesday

Response from my MTurk contact form yesterday:

"Hi there.

Thank you for bringing the issue of Amazon Payments account suspension.

We have taken steps to remediate the problem, and want to follow up with you to check if your account is restored.

Please let us know if you are now able to access your MTurk account by replying to this email, or let us know if you are still receiving any error messages. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work to resolve this matter.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions or concerns.

Best regards,
Shane C.
Amazon Web Services"

I said mine was restored yesterday evening, but others were still having issues.

 

You know I wish to do two emoji's on this one so here is a

 

Yup! Those random six letter

 

Was looking for a wacky cat GIF, but found this instead. Just look at this adorable chonker and his cute little punch.

 

Slight update, not sure if it means anything, but my deposit went through - which by the way, is always EARLY when I'm sure something will approve overnight. Jerks. - and I am still able to accept hits, so I'm feeling slightly... unclenched.

 

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oh look....mtruck has had an accident yet again and is down. shocker!

 

when you try to find out if you can turk yet but it takes awhile because now there's a new error. but eventually you find out you're still suspended and can't turk regardless.

 

that has basically been my morning. popped on to work on my closed qual batch (which i stg, needs to get moved off AMT for reasons like this) and refreshed my payments page, was slow but worked. walked away to get something to drink, came back, opened my hit to accept and its doing that bs from last week about sorry theres a problem with that page and taking like 2m to load. just...UGH

 

Sorry, there was a problem with the requested page

 

I can still get to everything, I have a friend who can get to the hits page, but not the dash (she is not suspended and never was)

 

yup i wasnt banned or payments issues. i cant get to dashboard at all. hits if i sit and refresh a bunch of times. eventually the error goes away for maybe 2 more refreshes and then comes back (im seeing if its stable enough to actually accept any hits or not). just....ugh

 

@Jane Doe right now is just like, "I told you guys to get prolific accounts like 1000 times!"

 

its like me with usertesting lol

 

servers slow again... they were blazing fast all last week, I'm guessing that they can't handle the capacity of even a normal amount of turking anymore so as soon as people got unsuspended (which is good I'm glad people are unsuspended and I hope everyone gets it fixed ASAP) the servers slowed back down again. can they fix it without suspending everyone?!

 

seriously though y aren't u all user testing (at usertesting.com) its 10 bucks for 15 min lol

 

This made me laugh out loud because an amazon customer service rep called it “m-truck” the day other when I was trying to get my account restored