09/02 - Labor Day Monday!

[cyberwasp]

I've been turking too long.

My personal mturk experience is I'll be able to grind hard, make a decent amount, get burnt out, take a break, come back and grind not quite as hard and get burnt out a little faster. Rinse and repeat.

Yeah i can definitely see that. Next year i'm planning on taking one "weekend trip" every month whether its just camping or a festival to have something to look forward to fairly frequently (and of course get a weekend away from turking).

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: Text comprehension study involving text (limited to participants with no programming experience) (~ 90 to 120 minutes) | PANDA
Requester: Patrick Rein [A26N0FVXQV2DJ5] [TurkerView]
Description: Answer questions about complex processes described in text (limited to participants with no programming experience) (~ 90 to 120 minutes)
Duration: ~180min
Reward: $15.00
Qualifications:

• Masters Exists
• code and text survey participated DoesNotExist
• US Bachelor's Degree EqualTo 1,

HIT Time: 14 min, 38 sec
Catchability: Okay

This took me like 28 minutes (I'm a super slow reader.)
HOTD material for sure. The second task was much easier than the first so don't give up if you get frustrated on the first one.

 

[cyberwasp]

Awesome! My YTD is around 6800 and I started on Jan 2nd. Pretty proud of what I got so far 9 months in. Would love to get to these numbers tho. How much time do you put in a day and is it closed qual stuff most of the time?

I have a decent amount of closed quals but there is some that i am lacking still. And as far as how much time, I generally put all the time into it, from the time i get up until the time i go to sleep. Except for when i'm making food or taking a half hour walk in the park which i try to do daily.

*edit* except weekends, i do to go friend's houses on weekends. gotta get away sometimes heh

 

[DareAngel3]

Title: Academic Experiment(~ 10 minutes) | PANDA
Requester: Sebastian Schiffels [A2PKB6HWWA70I2] [TurkerView]
Description: Short academic experiment with bonus payment based on decisions.
Duration: ~25min
Reward: $0.25
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100,
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90,
• Exc: [5062450-168325] DoesNotExist
• Location In US,

HIT Time: 2 min, 35 sec
Catchability: Great
Pros: bonus opportunity if your partner isn't a jerk.
Cons: had to wait for a partner. bonus is dependent on partner... mine was a jerk.

 

[C to the J]

I've been turking too long.

My personal mturk experience is I'll be able to grind hard, make a decent amount, get burnt out, take a break, come back and grind not quite as hard and get burnt out a little faster. Rinse and repeat.

This used to be me but I've been more consistent since 2018.
Never push myself too hard which means I don't take breaks anymore since I'm not getting burned out.
'cept that beach vacation we took in July.

 

[TSolo315]

So my favorite requester of all time was OCMP8.

Would post small batches throughout the day. Very few people had the quals.

I was a noob when I got the quals, and what infuriates me is that it took me like a year to realize just how good they were. I would just ignore them. SO MUCH MONEY LOST.

 

[cassius]

Elizabeth Kensinger

ExportATTN: Age 75 and older; Fill out a very quick demographics survey

 

[jeff007]

So my favorite requester of all time was OCMP8.

Would post small batches throughout the day. Very few people had the quals.

I was a noob when I got the quals, and what infuriates me is that it took me like a year to realize just how good they were. I would just ignore them. SO MUCH MONEY LOST.

Why was this requester such a favorite for you?

Me: I'm a requester and I wanna be everybody's favorite.

 

[TSolo315]

Why was this requester such a favorite for you?

Me: I'm a requester and I wanna be everybody's favorite.

It was batch work (not a survey -- a small task in which you could do several in a row.) They paid well. The work was behind a closed qualification that only like 15 people had, so there was little competition for the work. And most importantly they posted consistently, almost every day, for several years.

 

[C to the J]

Why was this requester such a favorite for you?

Me: I'm a requester and I wanna be everybody's favorite.

Pay me $30/hr to press 1 or 2 on my keyboard.

Real answer: Pay honest wage, $12/hr and above. Be responsive, if you post a batch watch your email because unless it's simple people are likely going to have questions. Be fair with rejections. Use a disqualification instead of blocking people if you don't like their work quality (unless they are outright scammers)

 

[JenniLeigh]

Me: I'm a requester and I wanna be everybody's favorite.

Don't pay sub-par wages and be communicative. (Which you probably will be because you're here! )

 

[HelloHello]

Title: Novel assessment tool research phase 1: intake 30-45 min (next week 2 HITs = total of 55-75 minutes for $8) | Accept Requester: Ard [A3OTA1DW4V8L16] Contact TV: [Hrly=$16.58] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=1-3 days] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=2.88] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=3.67] [Fair=4.00] [Reviews=9] [ToS=1] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 2.00 Duration: 12:00:00 Available: 1 Description: HIT 1 of 3 for researching a novel assessment tool. You will fill out a personality questionnaire. Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 5000; Location EqualTo US; BD_thesis Sara DoesNotExist ; Played_building_docks DoesNotExist

18 minutes for me taking it easy

 

[alk69]

Elizabeth Kensinger

ExportATTN: Age 75 and older; Fill out a very quick demographics survey

Well, then why are you looking at me? I'm not THAT old....am I?...no, no, I'm fairly certain I'm not...quite

 

[jan]

 

[jan]

Well, then why are you looking at me? I'm not THAT old....am I?...no, no, I'm fairly certain I'm not...quite

 

[jeff007]

It was batch work (not a survey -- a small task in which you could do several in a row.) They paid well. The work was behind a closed qualification that only like 15 people had, so there was little competition for the work. And most importantly they posted consistently, almost every day, for several years.

Pay honest wage, $12/hr and above. Be responsive, if you post a batch watch your email because unless it's simple people are likely going to have questions. Be fair with rejections. Use a disqualification instead of blocking people if you don't like their work quality (unless they are outright scammers)

Don't pay sub-par wages and be communicative. (Which you probably will be because you're here! )

Here's what I learned today:
- Create a batch, let someone auto-accept the next HIT, and keep the HIT small
- Pay what TWorkers expect is fair
- Qualifications matter
- Post daily if possible
- Watch for correspondence from Workers
- Be cautious with rejections and block only scammers
- This particular forum is active and is where I can get good answers.

 

[C to the J]

Here's what I learned today:
- Create a batch, let someone auto-accept the next HIT, and keep the HIT small
- Pay what TWorkers expect is fair
- Qualifications matter
- Post daily if possible
- Watch for correspondence from Workers
- Be cautious with rejections and block only scammers
- This particular forum is active and is where I can get good answers.

 

[HelloHello]

Title: Survey about Communication in Relationships | Accept Requester: Alan Mikkelson [A20F8F8K9VOE50] Contact TV: [Hrly=$11.66] [Pay=Good] [Approval=1-3 days] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.50] [Fast=4.75] [Comm=0.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=4] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 30:00 Available: 1 Description: Answer a 5-10 minute survey about communication in relationships Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 98; Location EqualTo US

 

[jan]

Here's what I learned today:
- Create a batch, let someone auto-accept the next HIT, and keep the HIT small
- Pay what TWorkers expect is fair
- Qualifications matter
- Post daily if possible
- Watch for correspondence from Workers
- Be cautious with rejections and block only scammers
- This particular forum is active and is where I can get good answers.

very few turkers want to do a bad job. People really do try hard to do the right thing. If you communicate well, give clear instructions (perhaps pilot your instructions, folks will give you feedback and you can see if they are meeting your expectations - or getting confused) - it will go well. Good luck!

 

[JenniLeigh]

The $1.80 Andrea Kähr is like HIT Time: 10 mins, bubble hell, but instant approval.