01/13 - Money on My Mind Monday!

[4ourfuture]

Title: Pindrop Speakers Campaign 2020 | PANDA
Requester: Pindrop Security [A1BTZJCOJPKRO1] [TurkerView]
Description: Record yourself speaking 30 sentences out loud each preceding the phrase "Hi Bixby" to be pronounced in two different accents as instructed.
Duration: ~60min
Reward: $4.25
Qualifications:

HIT Time: 6 min, 15 sec
Catchability: Great
Pros: These are fantastic

 

[PandaThief]

If you do this, can you let me know how ridiculous it is? I caught it as soon as it popped up but it sounds crazy so I'm just letting it sit for a minute

7 min, pretty good requester

 

[Blakkat]

Title: Food Availability(~ 30 minutes) | Accept Requester: Shannon O'Connor [A34NZA1CK3LCSC] Contact TV: [Hrly=$17.81] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=1-3 days] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=2.33] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=1.00] [Fair=3.67] [Reviews=7] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 5.00 Duration: 1:30:00 Available: 0 Description: Impact of food availability on eating and feeding behavior Qualifications: Not available from queue exports.

 

[Despairagus]

7 min, pretty good requester

Can you confirm if I am meant to pretend to have a Korean accent on this one? I'll have to restart... obv I am but it just seems so weird. I am right?

 

[Markb]

If you do this, can you let me know how ridiculous it is? I caught it as soon as it popped up but it sounds crazy so I'm just letting it sit for a minute

Kind of like Acme but without being able to playback the recordings and without redoing them over unless you start from the beginning

 

[4ourfuture]

If you do this, can you let me know how ridiculous it is? I caught it as soon as it popped up but it sounds crazy so I'm just letting it sit for a minute

Fantastically simple for me. I did not fake an accent, I said the Korean Bixby as it had it in the parenthesis. I've done one of these before.

 

[Poisontea]

Sorry, I got distracted with some work for a bit.

As others have said, I think the fewer you have running the better (my own personal preference is no more than 2 or 3 at a time). Another good thing to do, I think, is to keep an eye on the timers of the HITs that you're running pandas for. Your best chances for catching a HIT are going to be when it posts of course, but there's also a good chance to catch some stuff when the timer expires. After that, I think it becomes quite a bit harder to catch something, unless someone that picked it up later returns it or it posts again. If you're running a panda for a HIT with a 1 hour timer and it has been over an hour, it may be better to stop that panda so you can prioritize something else. I think a big part of catching stuff is in how well you manage those few pandas that you're running.

I'll keep that in mind thank you!
I have one more question, do people typically have it set up so that when a requester they like posts something it is PANDA's automatically? I've heard of that but haven't figured out how to do it so I feel like I always see the HITs way too late.

 

[PandaThief]

Can you confirm if I am meant to pretend to have a Korean accent on this one? I'll have to restart... obv I am but it just seems so weird. I am right?

i just spoke natural English on all recordings

 

[Despairagus]

i just spoke natural English on all recordings

but pronounced the Korean way right?

 

[4ourfuture]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from Yale Institute for Network Science for work related to 3NRZ1LDP7WLPZT9GUN57F051OBWPZD.
The value of your bonus is: $8.00 USD

The Requester included this note:
Final game score.

Woo hoo! Fastest bonus payment ever!
On that note, I'm going to pick up kiddo. See you guys later.

 

[Poisontea]

You are exactly the person I've needed around! Will give it a whirl during my afternoon Turking and get back to you

Sounds good! I have plenty more suggestions. I love music that makes me want to dance, which is what I listen to while Turking to make it less dreary.

 

[PandaThief]

but pronounced the Korean way right?

nope English, not sure what they wanted

 

[C to the J]

wait are we meant to fake the other accent?

That's what I did.
It felt racist but I did it.

 

[Despairagus]

nope English, not sure what they wanted

eee guess we finna find out

That's what I did.
It felt racist but I did it.

Yikes yeah it does feel super weird but here I go lol

 

[themildone]

Title: Negotiation Behaviors(~ 15 minutes) | Accept Requester: Veronica [A3EHR1YBT3D8XN] Contact TV: [Hrly=$15.54] [Pay=Good] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=2.70] [Fast=4.06] [Comm=2.00] [Fair=4.06] [Reviews=23] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.50 Duration: 40:00 Available: 3 Description: Survey (15 minutes) on negotiation behaviors, $1.50 Qualifications: Exc: [6110176-191315] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97; Location In US

 

[chrisd6]

7 min, pretty good requester

I went ahead and did it. I sure hope we were only supposed to fake the accent for the bixby thing

 

[Markb]

but pronounced the Korean way right?

If you click on the speaker/volume button next to the word it takes you to a google translate page and I pronounced it like the Korean way after listening to how it was pronounced

 

[aveline]

I'll keep that in mind thank you!
I have one more question, do people typically have it set up so that when a requester they like posts something it is PANDA's automatically? I've heard of that but haven't figured out how to do it so I feel like I always see the HITs way too late.

Panda Crazy does have a requester search that will do that. I think each requester search sorta works like its own panda, so I don't think it's something that you would want to run a lot of unless you expect a certain requester to post something (though, I could be wrong about this. I've never really used it much.)

If you're using the PC Helper script (which, I think you should be if you're using PC), the requester search would be the Search option when you see these buttons.

 

[PandaThief]

I went ahead and did it. I sure hope we were only supposed to fake the accent for the bixby thing

i didn't fake anything , just approved

 

[Finn Mertens]

I'll keep that in mind thank you!
I have one more question, do people typically have it set up so that when a requester they like posts something it is PANDA's automatically? I've heard of that but haven't figured out how to do it so I feel like I always see the HITs way too late.

https://old.reddit.com/r/mturk/comments/8gaclm/how_to_catch_a_requester_hits/