09/20 - Toum Thursday

[thedorchannel]

As a vagina scientist, have you seen the movie "teeth"?

I have not, but i'm intrigued.

 

[ThatsNotMyName]

I have not, but i'm intrigued.

 

[Strokemymagicalbeard]

I have not, but i'm intrigued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata ill just leave this here

 

[thedorchannel]

must... resist... urge to google

 

[Kennedy]

Nevermind.

I didn't pay attention. I didn't think there would be attention checks on it!

 

[thedorchannel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata ill just leave this here

i mean, with 2 sets of teeth, wouldn't lunch be twice as fast?

 

[lolkatB]

I'm not good at these current pins

 

[Strokemymagicalbeard]

i mean, with 2 sets of teeth, wouldn't lunch be twice as fast?

Hey if you want your sausage to be lunch, whom am I to judge.

 

[thedorchannel]

ok im pissed at myself. I had a 5 minute usertest worth $15.00 ready for me to do, but I realized I left my ipevo camera at my parent's house cause I was over there working yesterday.

I'm hoping all these crazy mtc posts put me in a working mood.

 

[aveline]

There would be zero chance for a successful lawsuit from workers, just mentioning that kind of fucked up the dude's whole comment and resulted in me . Amazon could potentially sue for defamation but chances of that being successful would be pretty much zero as well.

I think it's also kinda silly to expect a researcher to sacrifice their data quality just so turkers continue to have stuff to work on. If a researcher is getting trash data from somewhere, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that they're going to warn other researchers. Whether it was actually bots subbing that data or people that aren't native English speakers (like many have suggested), it doesn't change the quality of the data that they're receiving. We're all aware of the trash work that often gets submitted by people on this platform. It's inevitable that requesters are occasionally going to react to it.

 

[sinon]

Nice read. I can't believe some requesters think bots take surveys.

The frustrating thing is they seem to all be conflating duplicate IP addresses as an immediate sign of 'bot' activity.

This just puts legitimate workers who happen to live together in the line of fire. Some other requester is advising in the comments to outright reject duplicate IP submissions because "if they aren't a bot they will email you." It seems like there could be a much easier way of handling this kind of thing on their end, through their own survey qualifications, if they can't stand the idea of people from the same household doing the same work. It honestly feels like some requesters have no idea what they're doing and can't be bothered to use the tools at their disposal via requester accounts to fix the problem.

IP addresses aren't a fair way to judge whether someone is a bot or not, and the fact that they have stirred the pot with other requesters over that bothers me...

 

[katarina]

This Max fella is responsible for me eating bland ass salad for the past few weeks just so I can barely pay my bills. Max, if you're reading this, you owe me a steak dinner.

 

[themildone]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata ill just leave this here

 

[Knight]

Title: Reputation and Corporate Social Responsibility | PANDA Requester: Robert E. Overstreet [A2YE5PZV0SHXJ8] (Contact) TV: [Hrly: $30.05] [Pay: 4.95] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: 0.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 0.00] [Reviews: 2] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: $21.429] [Pen: 1.00 days] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Reward: $2.50 Description: Give us your opinion about a company's reputation following an adverse corporate social responsibility event. Requirements: Masters Exists; Location EqualTo US; Completed Reputation Survey DoesNotExist

this is about 4:30

 

[BskiCHI]

I think it's also kinda silly to expect a researcher to sacrifice their data quality just so turkers continue to have stuff to work on. If a researcher is getting trash data from somewhere, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that they're going to warn other researchers. Whether it was actually bots subbing that data or people that aren't native English speakers (like many have suggested), it doesn't change the quality of the data that they're receiving. We're all aware of the trash work that often gets submitted by people on this platform. It's inevitable that requesters are occasionally going to react to it.

It also seems he is a requester that wants people to spend 60 mins for 50 cents on his survey and then wonders why he is getting crap quality answers. So who is wrong?

 

[theturkscribe]

Little late, but here I thought it was just me. I thought, for all my teens and 20s, I'd die by 25 - as it turns out, it isn't good for impressionable teenage girls to be left alone with too much swoony Victorian poetry. I seriously thought I'd be like the Lady of Shalott, floating down the river in a boat.

Now I'm 38 and wishing I could borrow a tardis to go back and smack the stupid out of myself.

LOL and yes. Here here.

 

[NemoRolls]

this is about 4:30

I'd let it cook though
"I also reserve the right to reject an invalid reponse, which is typically indicated by the survey being completed too quickly, no variation in responses, and/or missed questions."

 

[Theta Carinae]

I've been checking out his posts
https://www.maxhuibai.com/blog/archives/08-2018
doesn't much look like libel to me lol. pretty cut and dry.

I thought you were 14.

 

[C to the J]

Just got these in the mail.
Ordered it for Mia for Christmas since I'm trying to raise a vintage baby.

Little does she know I'm about to play with these while she takes a nap in the other room.

 

[TSolo315]

I don't really know that much about law. I'm curious now, do you mind explaining why it wouldn't work out?

In general, defamation lawsuits are very hard to win. You have to PROVE that the person in question 1. Made a false statement regarding you. 2. It harmed you in some meaningful way (significant loss of profit.) 3. That the person in question made the statement knowing it was false, or made the comment completely negligently.

Seeing how the comment was made about Amazon's platform, not you personally as a contract worker, you don't have much of a case. Amazon could potentially say that the comment hurt their profits, but would probably struggle to prove it was completely untrue (multiple submission from the same IP), or that the comment was made negligently.

I'm definitely not an expert at this kind of thing either so take everything I say with a grain of salt.