12/16 - So Perfect Saturday!

[SarahAshlee90]

A quick thank you to @Kadauchi & others that are working on updating/enhancing scripts. You're the backbone of MTurk. If I wasn't saving up for an insane tax bill, I'd be donating to y'all.

Not going to lie, I'm a little worried the IRS is going to come throw me in jail if I come up short in the next few weeks.

 

[arcyjay]

No I have found most if not all r the same...

Interesting. All the ones I had in TurkMaster are useless now so I'm having to search for them all again.

 

[ALinAL]

Not going to lie, I'm a little worried the IRS is going to come throw me in jail if I come up short in the next few weeks.

They won't. They'll just add interest charges at worst.
(IANAL or an accountant.)

 

[Pacis Amans]

Let me be the first person on this day's page to say the worker site is a complete shit sandwich. The little nuisances and changes are annoying, but the worst thing is the loss of pandas. The fact that I can't TM or PC anything unless I've already caught it is going to cost me a lot of money. I get that their are work arounds, but that's a lot of extra work for something that was so simple. I'm officially salty.

Edit: Oh, and the fact that I can't go directly to me queue from the hit page is a pain also.

I'm also a bit annoyed at the changes, and have been spending the morning updating and figuring out work-arounds for all my scripts. With respect to Panda (I use Panda Crazy and Panda Crazy Helper), I found that if you click on the + in the HIT (for details) there's a Panda button (PC add: PANDA or ONCE buttons) there. So... I've been right-clicking Preview or Accept and Work, opening them in a new tab, and then if I miss the HIT, go back to the original HITs page I was on and expanding the detail, then clicking the Panda button there. It's worked for me so far =) Hope this helps!

 

[SarahAshlee90]

They won't. They'll just add interest charges at worst.
(IANAL or an accountant.)

I hope you are right. There's a chance I'm going to be really short, I had some large expenses this year and Mturk doesn't withhold anything.

 

[jakey baby]

I think I might leave mturk for a while.. I hate the new site so much. So frustrating to use.

 

[Req.body]

oh god those pictures are really screwing my brain:spaz:

 

[catnapped]

I hope you are right. There's a chance I'm going to be really short, I had some large expenses this year and Mturk doesn't withhold anything.

You make a payment agreement with them if that happens. They dont come for you unless you dont do anything about the bill (or default on the payments)

 

[Daniel]

Title: Decision making study 3 | Accept Requester: SmithOscar [AKL99MZHRN058] Contact TV: [Hrly: $10.62] [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 3.00] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.37] [Fast: 4.81] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 4.98] [Reviews: 74] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: ---] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $2.50 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Available: 240 Description: Decision making study Requirements: uoz DoesNotExist; Already taken DoesNotExist; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 5000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.26.3​

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[PhilGil]

I hope you are right. There's a chance I'm going to be really short, I had some large expenses this year and Mturk doesn't withhold anything.

IANAL, etc...

The worst that will happen if you haven't made quarterly payments is that you'll have to pay a small penalty. And, at the income level of the average turker it isn't going to amount to much. If you want to avoid the potential penalty, you can still make a payment before the end of the year.

EDIT: If you're talking about paying your taxes, you do have until April 15th of next year. And, as @catnapped said, the IRS will let you set up a payment plan. You're not the first person who's come up short.

 

[stuffalleysays]

Title: Identify entities in dialogue. | Accept Requester: Deep Dialogue [A1DGWH87NMS7M5] Contact TV: [Hrly: $22.22] [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: 4.70] [Comm: 1.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 32] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: ---] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $0.10 Duration: 1 hour Available: 156 Description: - Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.26.3​

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I'm only getting person A, not conversations? Anyone else?

 

[SarahAshlee90]

IANAL, etc...

The worst that will happen if you haven't made quarterly payments is that you'll have to pay a small penalty. And, at the income level of the average turker it isn't going to amount to much. If you want to avoid the potential penalty, you can still make a payment before the end of the year.

I've made a touch more than the average worker.
I dont think it will be that big of a deal but I may have to use January earnings to pay 2017 taxes. Then I start out 2018 behind.

 

[catnapped]

IANAL, etc...

The worst that will happen if you haven't made quarterly payments is that you'll have to pay a small penalty. And, at the income level of the average turker it isn't going to amount to much. If you want to avoid the potential penalty, you can still make a payment before the end of the year.

EDIT: If you're talking about paying your taxes, you do have until April 15th of next year. And, as @catnapped said, the IRS will let you set up a payment plan. You're not the first person who's come up short.

I'm almost certain she's in the "omfg that much?!?" category

 

[ChristopherASA]

Not going to lie, I'm a little worried the IRS is going to come throw me in jail if I come up short in the next few weeks.

Define "a little short" in terms of a percentage, pls.

 

[SherryNotShirley]

At least I'm making something today...in bonus...

You've received a bonus from B Masser for work related to 302OLP89DZFZ69O2PUAHXH7TJFRACG.
The value of your bonus is: $0.70 USD

 

[PhilGil]

I've made a touch more than the average worker.
I dont think it will be that big of a deal but I may have to use January earnings to pay 2017 taxes. Then I start out 2018 behind.

Someone else can correct me on this, but AFAIK quarterly payments are not tracked by the IRS. As long as you're squared up at the end of 2018 I don't think they care when the money comes in. You can still get further behind if you can't catch up, of course.

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: Quick survey about car buying | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: IL Team [A3HK1TA36RVPL4] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 2.99] [Fast: 4.20] [Comm: 2.00] [Fair: 3.97] [Reviews: 89] [ToS: 1] TO 2: [Rate: --/hr] [Pen: -- days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: -- of 0] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Description: 6 minute survey about car buying Time: 1 hour HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.20 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 90; Location EqualTo US;

 

[optipfrog]

Just reminding everyone that the admins of the forum and the script creators are working for free so please if you can donate do it ... It really does help keep the site running and allows us to make money as well. So if you have some extra money donate. click on the menu and at the bottom is a donate button.

As for the creator of MTS (Kadauchi) something most everyone uses there is a support button in the MTS extension icon If you click on the gear wheel thingy

in the upper right hand corner and scroll to the bottom there is a paypal donation spot and it looks like this .

I am still waiting on some money coming in, but believe me I have some donations in mind. I am not a full timer (even if it seems like I'm here a bunch) 2017 = $2,858.33. I have been here with you guys trying to make some spare change for things like food, my phone bill and car insurance. I know I should have been putting a percent aside, but I suck at budgeting in general. Don't give up on me yet.

I am very thankful for the people responsible for the forum and the the many people the have poured their time into writing scripts and sharing them freely. I also like the people that do the AHK stuff, even though I don't use any of that type of thing.

Without the forum and the people writing and sharing scripts my year would have been much less. I know this.

Note to self - put a small percentage aside for the future of the forum, buy one less 4 pack of half quarts a week, it will add up and you will feel good about it.

 

[C to the J]

I've made a touch more than the average worker.
I dont think it will be that big of a deal but I may have to use January earnings to pay 2017 taxes. Then I start out 2018 behind.

Worst case scenario you throw on a fake mustache and ditch town.

 

[optipfrog]

I think I might leave mturk for a while.. I hate the new site so much. So frustrating to use.

But you can still come here, no need to twurk, just come for the fun.