11/14 - Thoroughbred Thursday

[TotalBabe]

 

[MinkyMona]

Um now my Amazon payments account isn't letting me withdraw funds. Wtf?

 

[aveline]

Title: Choose between image A or B | Accept Requester: Guilin Liu [A35WQKG7GUGSRB] Contact TV: Hrly=$36.58 | Pay=Generous | Approval=Unrated | Comm=Unrated | Rej=0 | Blk=0 TO: Pay=4.00 | Fast=5.00 | Comm=0.00 | Fair=5.00 | Reviews=3 | ToS=0 TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 10:00 Available: 2 Description: Which image looks more realistic and closer in style to the input image on the left? Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.11​

 

[TotalBabe]

HIT Time: ~4 mins. with a bonus opportunity

Title: Incentivized game & self perception task(~ 4 minutes) | Accept Requester: SocialCognitionResearchCologne [A3S0F56AR2HR2U] Contact TV: [Hrly=$14.78] [Pay=Good] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=4.08] [Fast=4.53] [Comm=4.23] [Fair=4.43] [Reviews=161] [ToS=23] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 0.40 Duration: 30:00 Available: 1 Description: [4 minutes study, $0.4] Play an incentivized game and answer some questions about your personality Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 50000; Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Exc: [1788469110-181424] DoesNotExist ; Location In US

 

[PandaThief]

I had 50 of those Amazon Retail Business hits originally rejected just reversed , never contacted them

https://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/AVXEFU3F6XQSW

 

[aveline]

Um now my Amazon payments account isn't letting me withdraw funds. Wtf?

Is it giving some sort of error or just not doing anything?

 

[Despairagus]

And didn't suspend people based on Tweets.

Wait, what?

 

[cb456]

Title: Classification of the emotional effects of videos | PANDA Requester: crowd-testing [A1CRFD062UTLW] (Req TV): $26.31/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fast: 5.00] Description: Give us your opinion about the emotional impact of several video clips Time: 2 hour(s) HITs Available: 58 Reward: $5.70 Qualifications: participated EqualTo 1; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; taken DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US; Adult Content Qualification EqualTo 1Take Test;

 

[Despairagus]

Title: Classification of the emotional effects of videos | PANDA Requester: crowd-testing [A1CRFD062UTLW] (Req TV): $26.31/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fast: 5.00] Description: Give us your opinion about the emotional impact of several video clips Time: 2 hour(s) HITs Available: 58 Reward: $5.70 Qualifications: participated EqualTo 1; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; taken DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US; Adult Content Qualification EqualTo 1Take Test;

Are these the ones we can do more than one of?

 

[Yatagarasu]

Are these the ones we can do more than one of?

Yep. Didn't catch a single one though

 

[Despairagus]

Yep. Didn't catch a single one though

*sets panda and stares at catcher*

 

[TheNerdyAnarchist]

I totally forgot about this place...hi everyone

 

[aveline]

Wait, what?

A couple requesters tweeted at AMT yesterday about what they perceived to be bots performing their HITs and AMT replied that they were looking into it and suspending people.

To be fair to the requesters, I'm sure their complaints were perfectly valid, and one even provided some proof. I agree that something needs to be done about that stuff, but something about the situation just really rubs me the wrong way, when a requester can tweet at AMT saying "My data sucks, do something" and AMT responds with "Okay, we suspended people."

Sure, that sorta solves that one problem for the requester, but I can't imagine it makes them feel all that enthusiastic about using MTurk again. If Amazon put any effort at all into teaching requesters how to properly manage their work force with qualifications, the whole situation could have been avoided in the first place.

 

[DareAngel3]

Title: Short qualification test | PANDA
Requester: SmithOscar [AKL99MZHRN058] [TurkerView]
Description: Short qualification
Duration: ~10min
Reward: $0.03
Qualifications:

• ft2019 Exists
• Already taken DoesNotExist
• Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000,
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99,
• Location EqualTo US,

HIT Time: 0 min, 11 sec
Catchability: Okay

 

[Veltora Otew]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from Hengchen for work related to 31SIZS5W59GH5XZNHZ09X2HCAG6RQ6.
The value of your bonus is: $0.65 USD

The Requester included this note:
Thank you for your careful work on our HIT.

Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk!

Bonuses

$500.56

Finally got to $500 in bonus after working it from 10/2016 - think I need to focus more on bonus hits

 

[cb456]

Title: Short qualification test | PANDA Requester: SmithOscar [AKL99MZHRN058] (Req TV): $16.67/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 4.17] [Fair: 4.98] [Comm: 4.76] [Fast: 4.75] Description: Short qualification Time: 10 minutes(s) HITs Available: 58 Reward: $0.03 Qualifications: ft2019 Exists ; Already taken DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99; Location EqualTo US;

 

[aveline]

Title: Study about Personality and Verbal Reasoning | Accept Requester: Catherine J Norris [A1A5CHI2O0B78U] Contact TV: Hrly=$19.08 | Pay=Generous | Approval=1-3 days | Comm=Unrated | Rej=0 | Blk=0 TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 20:00 Available: 1 Description: Complete a brief survey about your personality, get feedback, and then do a scrambled words task Qualifications: Masters Exists

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.11​

 

[Despairagus]

A couple requesters tweeted at AMT yesterday about what they perceived to be bots performing their HITs and AMT replied that they were looking into it and suspending people.

To be fair to the requesters, I'm sure their complaints were perfectly valid, and one even provided some proof. I agree that something needs to be done about that stuff, but something about the situation just really rubs me the wrong way, when a requester can tweet at AMT saying "My data sucks, do something" and AMT responds with "Okay, we suspended people."

Sure, that sorta solves that one problem for the requester, but I can't imagine it makes them feel all that enthusiastic about using MTurk again. If Amazon put any effort at all into teaching requesters how to properly manage their work force with qualifications, the whole situation could have been avoided in the first place.

It makes me uncomfortable that they felt they had to tweet rather than just, idk, contact AMT in some more normal way, like wow.

 

[TheNerdyAnarchist]

properly manage their work force with qualifications, the whole situation could have been avoided in the first place.

In most cases I'm sure that's probably true, but even that doesn't stop some folks in some cases. Just this week there was a HIT with a qualification test that people cheated and caused issues for the requester. They got the qual and then just spammed the HIT over and over.

 

[YAHU]

It makes me uncomfortable that they felt they had to tweet rather than just, idk, contact AMT in some more normal way, like wow.

it's 2019 tho, tweeting has a better chance of getting customer service than direct contact. It's one of two reasons that I have a twitter account (other than entering contests)