12/07 - Freetown Friday!

[Timuks]

First solid day in weeks. Feels good.

 

[hockeyfan87]

Another $5 day here... Wish there were some decent batches to do.

 

[Peachy]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from Kellogg eLab for work related to 3PKJ68EHDOZF5ABX0ADA7HLAZ37JHW.
The value of your bonus is: $3.00 USD

The Requester included this note:
Thanks for participating in the News Assessment Game with Real Time Labs.

Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk!

 

[Merovign]

Remember how I said TamperMonkey wasn't crashing? WELL IT IS NOW!

Also, the ONLY C-SATS I've caught in weeks were caught midway through the jiggle task and timed out.

 

[Dark Jade]

Batch!


Chris Chan

 

[cb456]

Title: Attitudes Survey(~ 4 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Stanford GSB Behavioral Lab [A3OSXTUM1QEXNY] (Req TV): $13.96/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.27] [Fair: 4.40] [Comm: 3.44] [Fast: 4.13] Description: In this study, you will be asked to report on your thoughts and attitudes towards issues in America today. Earn $0.40 for 4 minute study. Time: 30 minutes(s) HITs Available: 112 Reward: $0.40 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US;

 

[cb456]

Title: Native speakers of ANY language, make 20 short recordings. (20181207_CW) | Accept Requester: Acme Data Collection [A3A1AJ4RPLTOLY] Contact TV: [Hrly=$23.07] [Pay=4.81] [Fast=null] [Comm=1.00] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.87] [Fast=4.24] [Comm=3.00] [Fair=4.69] [Reviews=131] [ToS=5] Reward: 1.50 Duration: 1:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Please answer a few demographic questions, then record yourself saying short phrases. Qualifications: Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.5​

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[alk69]

How can that Kolodny HIT be still up? That makes me wonder if someone knows more than we do.

 

[Merovign]

All'y'all seein' a lot of hits I don't, even with my filters turned off...

...hmmm.

 

[thedorchannel]

Title: Complete the webform | PANDA Requester: John Curtis [A3R47YDW5W16IE] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: Complete webform - outline any issues completing, send us the final url you get after submitting Time: 300 HITs Available: 66 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Masters Exists

2 min for a dolla. can only do 1

 

[Jerami]

ARRC Coming back in 3. Not qualified.
If you want to PandA.

 

[ChristopherASA]

Careful peeps. Jonathan Pirc is posting HITs. He tends to disqual on the last page of his HITs.

 

[catscratch]

Hey I'm Cat and I'm new to turking. Today's my third day and right now I've made about $18 total and I made over $10 today. I've been working for at least 4-5 hours for the past 3 days starting around 9:30am EST. My first day I downloaded Turkopticon.

This morning I downloaded and used HIT Finder on MTurk Suite and I set my minimum for $0.40. A few times today I went down to $0.10 just to see more results. Right now I'm at 127 approved hits and 54 pending.

It feels it's slow today and I ran out of surveys and other things to do. Is it because I'm under 500 approved HITs? And how can I be more productive? because 5 hours for around $10..sheesh...

 

[JenniLeigh]

2 min for a dolla

Damn, your usual rate is a buck fiddy.

 

[TSolo315]

Hey I'm Cat and I'm new to turking. Today's my third day and right now I've made about $18 total and I made over $10 today. I've been working for at least 4-5 hours for the past 3 days starting around 9:30am EST. My first day I downloaded Turkopticon.

This morning I downloaded and used HIT Finder on MTurk Suite and I set my minimum for $0.40. A few times today I went down to $0.10 just to see more results. Right now I'm at 127 approved hits and 54 pending.

It feels it's slow today and I ran out of surveys and other things to do. Is it because I'm under 500 approved HITs? And how can I be more productive? because 5 hours for around $10..sheesh...

Starting out sucks for everyone. There is a pretty significant learning curve. Reading this is a good place to start: https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/your-first-1000-hits.23/

Just keeping the forum on in the background and keeping up with the main thread will help you figure out what's worth working on, but it will take some time.

 

[lobo925]

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[Merovign]

Hey I'm Cat and I'm new to turking. Today's my third day and right now I've made about $18 total and I made over $10 today. I've been working for at least 4-5 hours for the past 3 days starting around 9:30am EST. My first day I downloaded Turkopticon.

This morning I downloaded and used HIT Finder on MTurk Suite and I set my minimum for $0.40. A few times today I went down to $0.10 just to see more results. Right now I'm at 127 approved hits and 54 pending.

It feels it's slow today and I ran out of surveys and other things to do. Is it because I'm under 500 approved HITs? And how can I be more productive? because 5 hours for around $10..sheesh...

My first day was a month and a half ago. I've had $2 days and $30 days, I have yet to have more than that. For most people this is not "job money" though there are some things you can do:

Be there early (I can't do that for various reasons, at least most of the time).

Upgrade your tools (HITScraper is an example, but they're all imperfect, and they don't do much until you customize them).

Learn. Keep learning. This is a good place to do that. All kinds of help in various sub-forums.

The last few days have been terrible for easy batches (fast HITs you can do lots of in a row), and you *need( something like PandaCrazy for those. Most of the good ones are even out of my reach, they require certain things (like 30k hits under your belt, or qualifications).

The qualifications are the big barrier and they tend to come with time, learn to keep an eye out for them, some of them get posted here when they arrive.

Edit: There are people who have $100 days but it takes a while to get there and it doesn't happen every day. "A while" means a while, unfortunately, there's never a guarantee.

 

[Jerami]

Hey I'm Cat and I'm new to turking. Today's my third day and right now I've made about $18 total and I made over $10 today. I've been working for at least 4-5 hours for the past 3 days starting around 9:30am EST. My first day I downloaded Turkopticon.

This morning I downloaded and used HIT Finder on MTurk Suite and I set my minimum for $0.40. A few times today I went down to $0.10 just to see more results. Right now I'm at 127 approved hits and 54 pending.

It feels it's slow today and I ran out of surveys and other things to do. Is it because I'm under 500 approved HITs? And how can I be more productive? because 5 hours for around $10..sheesh...

During probation, any money is good and $10 is pretty standard. But, definitely gotta start with the basics. Everyone I know started by also making $5-$10 a day during probation(my best was $16 in 12 hours) It's not like starting a job where you make the same in training as you do when you're trained up. Think of it more like running your own business.(I think lemonade stand but, whatever) But, right now, you're starting a new business, in a new field, with tools that you aren't completely familiar with yet.
Unfortunately, but most importantly, a LOT(most) of your time during probation(10days) should be spent learning, so that you'll know what you're doing when the flood gates open and you can do as many HITs as you want(up to 3800). And, when you're learning, while trying to make money, most of the benefit that you're going to get is in the form of qualifications and skills that you will be able to use to make real money down the road, not cash. But, there is a reason that a lot of people end up here from r/beermoney. That's about the amount you make until you get your feet under you, so to speak.
Best suggestion is to read what @TSolo315 quoted and the links from that post. The information found there will be invaluable and will give you the foundation on which to build your turk business, making you more productive in the long run, and more adaptable to changing situations that occur frequently on MTurk.

Words of wisdom below...

Starting out sucks for everyone. There is a pretty significant learning curve. Reading this is a good place to start: https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/your-first-1000-hits.23/

Just keeping the forum on in the background and keeping up with the main thread will help you figure out what's worth working on, but it will take some time.

But, @catscratch good luck. If everyone could make a living wage right off the bat, everyone would be doing it. Let us know if we can help.

 

[Merovign]

Title: Profile Information - Marriage and Family | Accept Requester: Amazon Mechanical Turk Team [AXKBO5V1Y75RL] Contact TV: [Hrly=$null] [Pay=null] [Fast=null] [Comm=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=2.94] [Fast=4.17] [Comm=3.27] [Fair=4.46] [Reviews=46] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 0.00 Duration: 1:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Help us understand you better by answering a few questions about yourself Qualifications: None [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.5​

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P.S. the Amazon profile information HITs are still up, there are several of these, if you don't have them already. Seems worth your time, don't know how useful they are. (For Cat)[/td][/tr]

 

[C to the J]

Title: Profile Information - Marriage and Family | Accept Requester: Amazon Mechanical Turk Team [AXKBO5V1Y75RL] Contact TV: [Hrly=$null] [Pay=null] [Fast=null] [Comm=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=2.94] [Fast=4.17] [Comm=3.27] [Fair=4.46] [Reviews=46] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 0.00 Duration: 1:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Help us understand you better by answering a few questions about yourself Qualifications: None [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.5​

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P.S. the Amazon profile information HITs are still up, there are several of these, if you don't have them already. Seems worth your time, don't know how useful they are. (For Cat)[/td][/tr]

That $15/5min HIT people are doing requires these.
So an example of how useful premium quals can be.

Of course that one HIT requires masters too.