09/26 - Thankful Thursday!

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[jan]

 

[rsmath]

NATIONAL COMPLIANCE OFFICER DAY
NATIONAL SITUATIONAL AWARENESS DAY
NATIONAL DUMPLING DAY
NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY
NATIONAL JOHNNY APPLESEED DAY
NATIONAL SHAMU THE WHALE DAY

 

[Mikey Chlanda]

good morning all!

 

[HelloHello]

 

[Mikey Chlanda]

connect wants me to verify my identify before 10/1. Any pitfalls or things to watch out for?

 

[mew]

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[Blakkat]

connect wants me to verify my identify before 10/1. Any pitfalls or things to watch out for?

I just did that last week. I had to scan front and back of drivers license with their on-line tool and then it scanned a face pic. Fast and easy - I don't see any problems with giving them that except I couldn't choose a good pic of me, lol

 

[HelloHello]

USPS just opened this up this morning.

Order Your 4 Free At-⁠home COVID-⁠19 Tests
Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home tests.

https://www.covidtests.gov/

 

[jan]

jeepers. If I were still in Tally, I'd leave. Unless there is some drift to the west (and that would still put it on the wrong side of the storm) - it looks terrible. Outside of Tally, the area is generally quite poor (not all of it, but large pockets).

We lived through tropical depressions that took down hundreds of towering oak trees - everywhere, on our block - all over town.

Most of our friends (at this point) appear to be riding it out. I stayed for every storm - always saying that if it came in to town as a cat 1 or higher that would be enough for me to evacuate.

Don't know what to hope for, really. We have friends out on the coast of Panacea, too. This looks terrible.

 

[Skittles]

 

[mypaperheart]

USPS just opened this up this morning.

Order Your 4 Free At-⁠home COVID-⁠19 Tests
Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home tests.

https://www.covidtests.gov/

Thank you! Just ordered. Both of my daughters got covid last week. So far the rest of us haven't gotten it (fingers crossed).

 

[mypaperheart]

@danthaman101183
Hi! I just saw your posts in yesterday's thread. I took a quick look at the stats you posted and noticed that your approval rate is down to 96%. You need to do a bunch of safe, easy penny type HITs to get that back up to 99% - that will help a lot with finding HITs and getting quals. Ben Petersons and PickFus are two great ones to get your numbers up. They approve quickly and put up lots of HITs. Keep an eye out throughout the day for little qual batches. They're HITs that you do a few and if you do well, they will assign you quals to do bigger batches.

 

[Mikey Chlanda]

@danthaman101183
Hi! I just saw your posts in yesterday's thread. I took a quick look at the stats you posted and noticed that your approval rate is down to 96%. You need to do a bunch of safe, easy penny type HITs to get that back up to 99% - that will help a lot with finding HITs and getting quals. Ben Petersons and PickFus are two great ones to get your numbers up. They approve quickly and put up lots of HITs. Keep an eye out throughout the day for little qual batches. They're HITs that you do a few and if you do well, they will assign you quals to do bigger batches.

I agree. At 167K hits, that's gonna take a bunch of hits. That's a lot more than 1 or 2 bad batches. One of the lower % i've seen with someone with that many hits

 

[mew]

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[mypaperheart]

I agree. At 167K hits, that's gonna take a bunch of hits. That's a lot more than 1 or 2 bad batches. One of the lower % i've seen with someone with that many hits

Yes, I was pretty shocked by that. I've been turking since 2015 (admittedly with a multi year break in the middle of that) and my stats are
Approved
95,706
Approval Rate
99.9216%

I have 75 rejections and quite a few of them are from after I came back after my break - did a few HITs for some scammy requesters that wouldn't reverse them, and I'm much more cautious lately after that. Made me nervous. I'm curious how he got those rejections. Either way, when your approval rate is that low, you're gonna take a hit (no pun intended) while you build that back up.

 

[mypaperheart]

I don't know what PickFu's problem is today, lol. I always take care to put in good answers.

"One of your recent answers has been flagged as low quality. Please read questions carefully and answer relevantly or risk being blocked from future HITs."

 

[HelloHello]

And, as the day wears on the loud, dirty, smelly motorcycles are gathering, roaring about in groups . . . the audio systems on some of these bikes can be heard for blocks and blocks and they are never playing anything I want to hear. It is pure torture!

 

[mew]

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[mew]

New thread here: https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/7233/