10/10 - Super Scary Saturday

Tjololo · Oct 10, 2020

By the way: This qual is NEW NEW NEW as in I JUST made it. You no longer have your other qual. You will NEED to get this one in order to do the HITs.

SunlitSunflower · Oct 10, 2020

Tjololo said: ↑

By the way: This qual is NEW NEW NEW as in I JUST made it. You no longer have your other qual. You will NEED to get this one in order to do the HITs.
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Did you ever get back into bee farming?

Tjololo · Oct 10, 2020

SunlitSunflower said: ↑

Did you ever get back into bee farming?
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I went to a couple meetings with my HOA to try to get permission to get hives. After about 5 months of meetings, it came down to: If I wanted to have hives, I would need to start a "community apiary committee" that I would be heading. I'd need to create bylaws, find members, collect funding, run regular meetings, figure out contracts for the other beekeepers, enforcement for people not paying dues/cleaning up/etc....So no, I never got back into it XD

I've been talking to some of the parks nearby, I have a few I could keep hives at but I'd need personal liability insurance, which is super expensive. I'm still waffling about that though, but it's definitely not happening this year lol.

SunlitSunflower · Oct 10, 2020

Tjololo said: ↑

I went to a couple meetings with my HOA to try to get permission to get hives. After about 5 months of meetings, it came down to: If I wanted to have hives, I would need to start a "community apiary committee" that I would be heading. I'd need to create bylaws, find members, collect funding, run regular meetings, figure out contracts for the other beekeepers, enforcement for people not paying dues/cleaning up/etc....So no, I never got back into it XD

I've been talking to some of the parks nearby, I have a few I could keep hives at but I'd need personal liability insurance, which is super expensive. I'm still waffling about that though, but it's definitely not happening this year lol.
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That's a LOT of hoops to get bees going again. Considering how badly we need them it's a real big shame. My husband and I got Chickens *hence the chicken avatar now*. Y'all should try and get some of them!

SunlitSunflower · Oct 10, 2020

Title: approx. 20 min study ~ Evaluating social media news sources | Accept
Requester: Alireza Karduni [A10OH7MF1PZ3LU] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$8.60] [Pay=Fair] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0]
TO: No Reviews
TO2: No Reviews
Reward: 2.00
Duration: 1:00:00
Available: 1
Description: Evaluate different news accounts based on their tweets
Qualifications: Not available from queue exports.

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.13

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SunlitSunflower · Oct 10, 2020

"Less than one hour left to complete this extra survey for $0.35!"

A6_Foul_Out · Oct 10, 2020

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You have been granted the following Qualification:
- Brony, with a score of "100"

Qualifications you earn allow you to complete new kinds of HITs. Each Qualification has a score associated with it. You can complete HITs for which you have the required Qualifications and a sufficiently high score.

TKNO · Oct 10, 2020

Tjololo said: ↑

Did you miss me? Did you think I had FORGOTTEN?!

It's HALLOWEEN TIME!! And you know what that means? YES! It's TRICK OR TREAT TIME!

For those who don't know what Trick or Treat hits are, here's a little explanation in this spoiler:

For you young whippersnappers who don't remember the Golden Days of Turk (tm), I used to run a thank-you event for the community every October. Why October? Halloween is my favorite holiday, and the hits tended to be scarce around that time so this gave people something to look forward to. The way it works is simple:

I'll post a few batches per week, and I'll try to give some kind of notification around the time so people are aware. The notice is anywhere from an hour to no notice at all, depends on what I'm doing at the time. The batch would be for about 5 cents or something, not really worth writing home about, but that's not the fun part. The HIT itself consists of a button that you click. When you click the button, there's a 50% chance you will submit the hit which will auto approve in like a minute (You got a "Treat"). However, there's a 50% chance that you will get a "Trick" and the HIT will require you to return it. If you get a screen that says "YOU GOT TRICKED", return the hit so others can play. You'll get another chance another day. See "Hit Structure" for more info.

And that's it! It's a fun thing I do to give back to the mturk community. All of you have been my friends and family for so many years, it's the least I can do.

Hit structure

So in prevoius years I was able to auto-return the hits. This isn't the case anymore, unfortunately. If you get a "trick", you'll be dumped to a "YOU GOT TRICKED" page, and you'll have to return the hit. Please be a good sport and return it, I have protections in place for force submission and circumvention. If I do find out you've cheated, you'll be granted a "cheater" qual which will permanently remove you from all of my hits, now and in the future, so play nice. The hits don't pay that well, you're not missing out on much. It's for the fun of the holiday, not to make a profit.

When you accept the hit, you'll get to a page with a button that says "Click Here". Click that to play. There's a 50% chance you'll get a "Trick" and have to return, and a 50% chance you'll get a "Treat" and it'll submit itself (and approve automatically).

If the HIT submits and you get a treat, you will be ineligible for the next hit only. For example, if you win Monday, you will not be able to accept the hit Wednesday, but you will be able to accept on Friday to try again. It might SOUND confusing, but don't worry, I'm handling all of it with qualifications. The only thing you need to remember is: If you SEE a trick or treat hit, you can accept it.

How do you participate? Well I'm glad that you asked! I have a QUALIFICATION you'll need to request in order to participate. I'm going to include this qualification information in every single posting I make about these HITs, PLEASE READ IT! If you're already familiar with how things go it should be easy, but I swear every year I get people who mess it up. Please take the time to read it, you have time. Also, please don't forward the qualification information around. I want this qual to be restricted to the communities who've been so helpful to me in the past. I don't really want random people to have the qual. It helps keep the pool smaller and gives more people the opportunity to play!

With that being said, here's the qualification information:

The test is located at https://worker.mturk.com/qualifications/31RWV6EUEVXHTS6BFO0H4JW1EG9UA8 and the password is

D9D9C49B189900FB06B0358FEF49A928

Just copy that and paste it into the box and you should be good in 2 minutes (ish). That's all you need!

As usual, this is a thing I do for fun, and may break. If you run into issues please let me know, but hopefully it'll be pretty easy. I've don this several times in the past and I don't expect any problems, but just in case, be patient. Also, the 50/50 chance is actually random. This is the code I use to determine whether people are tricked or treated: $approve = (rand(1,10) >= 6) ? true : false; That means "generate a number between 1 and 10, and if the number is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, then approval is 'true'. If the number is 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10, the approval is 'false'". So there are 5 chances to "treat" and 5 chances to "trick". I could probably just do a simple binary true/false instead of a number between 1 and 10, but I like that method better.

I know I'm a little late this year but it's been rough to schedule things. I'm planning on running 3 hits per week, starting on Monday, 10/19/2020. The dates and times will be TBD (and I like being able to switch it up a bit). As usual, if you win you will be granted a qual that will make you ineligible for the next HIT posted. Don't worry about it though, if you can see the trick or treat hit, you can accept the trick or treat hit.

Finally, as usual, I'm hoping to do a bigger HIT on Halloween day as well. I usually pay a little better for that one, and put more HITs out there. If you want to donate to increase the pot, you can contribute to the pool here https://paypal.me/pools/c/8tkqnwbZjq PLEASE NOTE! Donating WILL NOT increase your chances of winning. There will still be a larger Halloween HIT, but in the past people have expressed interest in making it "bigger", so I started taking donations for that. All money donated will be going into Mechanical Turk and will be distributed as part of the Halloween HITs, I can provide proof if you really don't trust me.

Happy Halloween Everypony, and good luck!

P.S. This announcement will be posted several times over the next week. I'll try to capture everyone, but the qual information will also be posted with the HIT announcements too.
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I feel like it's 2016 and I'm back on Mturk Grind....lol

JHturk · Oct 10, 2020

Ginges Lab [A149TXZJB2OWR7] Perceptions of Gender Survey - $1.75 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated
$29.58 / hour
00:03:33 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:
No code

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 85; Location EqualTo US;

To read Ginges Lab's full profile check out TurkerView!

Tjololo · Oct 10, 2020

TKNO said: ↑

I feel like it's 2016 and I'm back on Mturk Grind....lol
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Simpler times. I'm pretty sure I've run these every year though, I might have taken a year off when they broke my auto-return logic.

Kathleen! · Oct 10, 2020

Title: Answer a reading comprehension survey | Accept
Requester: Cognation [A2RR1D2JP345Z3] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$46.11] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=1-3 days] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0]
TO: No Reviews
TO2: No Reviews
Reward: 0.70
Duration: 7:00
Available: 0
Description: Read a short paragraph and complete short survey
Qualifications: Not available from queue exports.

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.13

AlexZ · Oct 10, 2020

Good afternoon, fellow web browser users.

Kimmywp · Oct 10, 2020

Ginges Lab [A149TXZJB2OWR7] Perceptions of Gender Survey - $1.75 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated
$18.00 / hour
00:05:50 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:
no code

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 11 seconds ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 85; Location EqualTo US;

To read Ginges Lab's full profile check out TurkerView!

Terp · Oct 10, 2020

Jeffrey Jarman [AGQGZUW8HRRIV] Short academic survey about Trump's recent video - $1.00 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated
$19.67 / hour
00:03:03 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 7 minutes ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 94; Location EqualTo US;

To read Jeffrey Jarman's full profile check out TurkerView!

JanuaryRain · Oct 10, 2020

Jeffrey Jarman [AGQGZUW8HRRIV] Short academic survey about Trump's recent video - $1.00 | PANDA

Good

Unrated

Unrated
$9.63 / hour
00:06:14 / completion time

Pros:
Very easy -- watch a 90-second video and answer some questions about it. There is also an optional writing task for sharing further opinions.
Cons:

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 9 minutes ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 94; Location EqualTo US;

To read Jeffrey Jarman's full profile check out TurkerView!

Penelope · Oct 10, 2020

New Requester Profile!

NIMH-CompPsych [AGQ21VKCGELRB] TWO-DAY experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health - $10.00 $7.00 bonus | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated
$24.69 / hour
00:41:19 / completion time

Pros:
Three parts. Two gambling tasks that take roughly 16-18 minutes each and a quick survey. States the bonus is between $1-$6 in the consent form but the experiments showed $3 and $4 for me along with points earned.
Cons:
Three codes. Take screenshot before pressing space bar or it will be lost.

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 57 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Did Any MMI DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) > 97; Total approved HITs > 5000; Location EqualTo US;

To read NIMH-CompPsych's full profile check out TurkerView!

Penelope · Oct 10, 2020

Wonder if NIMH is MBDU? They have the same qual. Same survey title too. Must've changed names.

LaneyB · Oct 10, 2020

dgrochester55 said: ↑

Ginges Lab [A149TXZJB2OWR7] Perceptions of Gender Survey - $1.75 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated
$15.95 / hour
00:06:35 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:
Possibly broken and at the very least full of glitches making me go back to the same questions multiple times. Ended abruptly with no code after a page where there was nothing that could be an attention check. Submitted it anyway and contacted the requester, but feel like I am chancing a rejection. I will update either way, but would recommend avoiding this.

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 85; Location EqualTo US;

To read Ginges Lab's full profile check out TurkerView!
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I didn't get a code either. I had two scenarios to read and answer questions on and then some demographics. I submitted with ID and also messaged Requestor. Hoping for the best since it sounds like others had issues.

EssArrBee · Oct 10, 2020

Not seeing the Cotton Bowl sold out for the Red River Shootout is so surreal. It's also weird not going to the Texas State Fair too. I've been like 6 or 7 years in a row. No deep fried <insert whatever you can think of>, no chili, no smoked turkey leg, no beer garden...

TKNO · Oct 10, 2020

New Requester Profile!

Ashley [A1SE14T93UUMXW] Answer a survey about a court proceeding - $2.40 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated
$8.65 / hour
00:16:39 / completion time

Pros:
decent rate
good communication from the requester about submitting survey with the issues in it
Cons:
no code
one of the AC's asks you to select an option that isn't present

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 34 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Masters Exists ;

To read Ashley's full profile check out TurkerView!

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