08/28 - Monday

Guessing your brute-force attempts were about as subtle as using a hammer to fix fine china?

 

lol I scraped their servers until I found it

 

Title: Did you vote for Clinton or Trump? | PANDA Requester: Andrew R Timming [A1VVSRTNE5T4AG] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 1.67] [Fair: 3.67] [Comm: 1.00] [Fast: 5.00] Description: Answer some questions about your beliefs and who you voted for Time: 20 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.05 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US;

 

Haven't we already settled this back around November 8th and then for the last 9 months that have followed? Not to mention that TO is looking sparse and varied.

 

Is there a script for Takashi that puts the picture into the hit so you don't need to go to the link?

 

For me it doesn't load a picture and there are no options. I should really start learning to code.... Thank you though.

 

Title: Install and Test a New Tool for Turkers | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Ali Alkhatib [A2XJMS2J2FMVXK] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 3.67] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 7] [ToS: 1] TO 2: Not Available Reward: $0.25 Duration: 3 hours Available: 1 Description: Not Available Requirements: None

Seems more than just a little sketchy from inside the HIT window:

Install and Test a New Tool for Turkers
We're working on a way to make it easier for communities of specialized workers to do complex work for more money by sharing these groups between requesters, and making it possible for workers themselves to reject tasks that don't follow the rules that the community sets.

The system we're building is called "Vitae". It uses a Chrome extension to annotate your HIT list, and eventually it'll be able to aggregate your work history so Vitae can say that you're an expert at image tagging tasks, transcription tasks, tasks for academic institutions, etc...

We'd like you to install Vitae, give some feedback on getting started, and (hopefully) use it for a while as Vitae-enabled tasks show up on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Tasks that use Vitae will only be accessible to Turkers who have the Chrome extension installed.

Important: the chrome extension will use your worker ID, your total number of approved HITs, and your total number of rejected HITs from the Dashboard. If you are not okay with this, do not accept this HIT.

 

The perfect hit for @DikDik

 

It's part of Dynamo it seems, so guess its going to be yet another way to make a more antiquated and convoluted mousetrap for qualifications and task assigning to 'good workers.' I seem to remember a parable about a foolish man building a house upon the sand.

 

I just realized that I have been up for over 30 hours now...

I guess that is what stupid amounts of tea will do to someone.

 

The concept is interesting, too bad the HIT itself is hot garbage

 

Ah yes, the organization that pushed the "anything over $6/hr is a-ok" campaign -_-

 

Hence the parable.