06/16 - Saving Sunday!

[Peachy]

pe: $57.41

 

[Nique77]

Basically, MTurk doesn't like for anyone person to send more than 1 request per second (1000ms). Therefore, setting tools/plug-ins to run faster than that starts resulting in Page Request Errors, which are basically short time-outs that you get when you send too many requests to MTurk too quickly.

In an earlier post you mentioned that you set HIT Catcher to 700ms. So to demonstrate PREs, turn off HIT Finder, and then set one single catcher to 700ms. Now watch that Catcher's PRE count start to go up. I forget precisely how long the PRE time-out last, but it's about 3 seconds. So basically PREs are really bad and you want zero of them. MTS and Panda Crazy try to balance-out their timing in order to avoid PREs.

@cyberwasp's suggestion of 1 second for HIT Finder's speed and 1 second for HIT Catcher's speed is good. One's ability to make more money and catch more HITs on MTurk depend far more on increasing their knowledge of the requesters and learning about their HIT-posting tendencies, as opposed to perfectly optimizing the timing of HIT Finder and HIT Catcher.

@Gator is referring to a past explanation of mine about how the timing of multiple PANDAs/Catchers works and details why it's a bad idea to run too many at once.
https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/...-multiple-pandas-running-simultaneously.4305/
I'd be happy to answer any other questions you have.

Thanks!!! Awesome info to know. Can I "follow" (probably no the right word) a requestor? As in, any time anything comes up for them it will get caught in the catcher? Or is the "Include List" the only way to do that and I need to catch them myself?

 

[KYLaura]

I'd rather not share my order history.

Agreed. And I don't like the way they spelled behaviors. So that's two strikes against them. It also feels vaguely against the ToS, even though they said "remove personal identifiable information".

 

[dreamonjaded1]

Title: Survey about your thinking style (10-15 minutes) | Accept Requester: Adelaide CompCogSci [A2UKL52R7I6BX7] Contact TV: [Hrly=$20.07] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Excellent] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: 2.25 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Questions about how you tend to think about intuition, thinking, truth, etc Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 90; Adelaide Basic Qualification Exists

2:35

I need the Qual.... waiting for it. I didn't see anything other than a place to click request. No 3 cents or anything.

 

[mboone73]

Agreed. And I don't like the way they spelled behaviors. So that's two strikes against them. It also feels vaguely against the ToS, even though they said "remove personal identifiable information".

Yea, they could be British. Or even worse, Canadian.

 

[basketcasey]

Yea, they could be British. Or even worse, Canadian.

Um, excuse me...

 

[mboone73]

Um, excuse me...

Oh, hi there...

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[mboone73]

Title: Chinese-English Bilinguals Survey | PANDA Requester: Nguyen Le Phuong Linh [A318JQO52C3BVL] (Req TV): $20.33/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fast: 5.00] Description: A 20-minute survey on personality and emotions for people who speak and write English and Chinese fluently. Time: 2 hour(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $3.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 500; Completed ERS_1 DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99; Location EqualTo US;

 

[Maria Tortilla]

Last week I made $377.71

Best week ever and I only worked 3 1/2 days!

 

[Blakkat]

I'm done for the day (not that I have really worked much today, but I did fine) - but I just looked at my stats and I only have 13 hits pending from last week..., Which means the last week wasn't as good as I thought it was. Maybe. Or, it could be that those 13 hits are realllllly high money. Or not. I prefer to think that they possibly are, lol.

 

[mboone73]

Title: Qualifying survey on SMART BULBS. 2 minutes. MUST HAVE PURCHASED A SMART BULB IN THE LAST 36 MONTHS. | PANDA Requester: Mareca Hatler [A3G095PGJQELCB] (Req TV): $12.81/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 1.00] [Fair: 1.00] [Comm: 1.00] [Fast: 0.00] Description: Smart Bulb (controlled by smart phones). Answer 16 simple questions. MUST HAVE PURCHASED IN THE LAST 3 YEARS! Time: 30 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.22 Qualifications: Location EqualTo US-TX;

 

[dreamonjaded1]

Bowing out for the night with PE of $4.50 plus some random bonuses. Sleep must happen.

 

[Vanyanka]

Ugh, I'm home. Can I go back now? Did everyone miss me?

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You were gone?

 

[cyberwasp]

PE $26.65
I'm happy enough with that for today, seeing as its a weekend and Father's Day both.
Plus i spent a good bit of time doing other stuff and getting the yard mowed.

 

[mboone73]

I’m under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Send booze!

 

[charlie]

I’m under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Send booze!

We had a lot of fun in Texas with the storms. Getting bad down in the Hill Country. I dealt with it all early this afternoon in DFW.

 

[mboone73]

We had a lot of fun in Texas with the storms. Getting bad down in the Hill Country. I dealt with it all early this afternoon in DFW.

It’s raining sideways.

 

[MeTurks]

@Vanyanka

 

[charlie]

It’s raining sideways.

oh man. yeah just saw you're from Houston . yeah radar doesn't look fun.

 

[Peachy]