05/08 - Scottish Fold Sunday!

[Califin]

(& maybe Kaitlyn Jenner?)

 

[jan]

I wouldn't count on Zoltar's for a while guys. Reason I say this a lot of people would say they hit the cap every day or say I did 377 zoltars. Those people jacked it up for the rest of us. I am sure that 10- 20% of these people were doing excellent work. I think Zoltar got fed up. Blocked some people have cut way back on the amount of work available. I hope they don't become the new YTA capped at 6 or 10! If they come back in full glory feel free to throw this post back in my face a whole bunch

Maybe.
Of course, on one level, I think you're right - frankly, I suspect that's what happened to virals and since I loved those, it still annoys me.
But it's always on the requester. If they wanted someone to ponder over those, they could have qual'ed the HITS. I think big batch work like that should always, at some point, be qual'ed. I go slow (and make less than other people) on all hits, because that is my nature. But I rarely get rewarded for that. It's sort of like that you are the decider thing. When I make the choice, I always try for 50/50 - and on mturk, well, you know how that goes

 

[Squatty]

I wouldn't count on Zoltar's for a while guys. Reason I say this a lot of people would say they hit the cap every day or say I did 377 zoltars. Those people jacked it up for the rest of us. I am sure that 10- 20% of these people were doing excellent work. I think Zoltar got fed up. Blocked some people have cut way back on the amount of work available. I hope they don't become the new YTA capped at 6 or 10! If they come back in full glory feel free to throw this post back in my face a whole bunch

I agree with Zoltar getting fed up, but I feel like this is just the normal ebb and flow of Zoltar. They post every day for a week or two, then take a week off. At least that is what I have noticed.

 

[corvid]

It's been there all weekend.

do you think this is why mturk suddenly and seemingly without warning approved all of those international workers? to get some native British English speakers? i'd imagine it's not good to leave google hanging when they post a big job like that.

 

[Squatty]

Title: Psychological learning study: Predicting the behavior of others (~ 40 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Online Research Studies [A27CNW4L89VKTU] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 4.07 Communicativity ★★★★★ 4.21 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.52 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.88 Promptness Number of Reviews: 70 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: In this study you will observe behaviors and make judgments. (ca 40 min) Time: 1 hour 30 minutes HITs Available: 4 Reward: $4.50 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 100;Exc: [1694910785-11541] has not been granted;HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 90;Location is one of: US

Takes about 20-25 minutes, don't be surprised when you finish the main task and get redirected to another small survey. It isn't that bad.

 

[Desertdarlene]

I wouldn't count on Zoltar's for a while guys. Reason I say this a lot of people would say they hit the cap every day or say I did 377 zoltars. Those people jacked it up for the rest of us. I am sure that 10- 20% of these people were doing excellent work. I think Zoltar got fed up. Blocked some people have cut way back on the amount of work available. I hope they don't become the new YTA capped at 6 or 10! If they come back in full glory feel free to throw this post back in my face a whole bunch

Well, I'll guess I'll sleep in more, then. They tend to come out before I get up anyway. One day, I got up extra early and got a whole bunch.

 

[essjay]

Maybe.
Of course, on one level, I think you're right - frankly, I suspect that's what happened to virals and since I loved those, it still annoys me.
But it's always on the requester. If they wanted someone to ponder over those, they could have qual'ed the HITS. I think big batch work like that should always, at some point, be qual'ed. I go slow (and make less than other people) on all hits, because that is my nature. But I rarely get rewarded for that. It's sort of like that you are the decider thing. When I make the choice, I always try for 50/50 - and on mturk, well, you know how that goes

I was thinking this morning as I did the three I got that they might be getting ready to qual based on the responses they're receiving from these microbatches this weekend.

Ofc, I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet, so I could just be talking out of my ass.

 

[Squatty]

I was thinking this morning as I did the three I got that they might be getting ready to qual based on the responses they're receiving from these microbatches this weekend.

Ofc, I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet, so I could just be talking out of my ass.

I hope they don't qual off of this weekend. I didn't do any yesterday and only managed to grab one today.

 

[Empress328]

do you think this is why mturk suddenly and seemingly without warning approved all of those international workers? to get some native British English speakers? i'd imagine it's not good to leave google hanging when they post a big job like that.

Someone miscalculated here. 59 thousand are just sitting around.

 

[essjay]

do you think this is why mturk suddenly and seemingly without warning approved all of those international workers? to get some native British English speakers? i'd imagine it's not good to leave google hanging when they post a big job like that.

Those workers are for the most part finishing up their probationary periods and these Jamelios only posted this week. Unless you're suggesting google got in touch with Amazon and demanded British workers?

 

[Squatty]

4 to 5 minutes

Title: Guess the more popular image | PANDA Requester: Greg [A3575GM9DMC7TU] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: Give us your opinion and guesses about which image received more votes on Reddit Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.40 Qualifications: Location is one of: US

 

[corvid]

Those workers are for the most part finishing up their probationary periods and these Jamelios only posted this week. Unless you're suggesting google got in touch with Amazon and demanded British workers?

"demanded" might be a bit harsh, but that is pretty much what i was suggesting. some of those new workers said they'd been waiting a year or two to be approved. it's just odd timing. i'm always curious about the working relationship between the google requesters and mturk. i'd imagine mturk is much more accommodating, or even just available, for them than they are for the average academic requester. or else i think google would have their own platform by now.

 

[Squatty]

"demanded" might be a bit harsh, but that is pretty much what i was suggesting. some of those new workers said they'd been waiting a year or two to be approved. it's just odd timing. i'm always curious about the working relationship between the google requesters and mturk. i'd imagine mturk is much more accommodating, or even just available, for them than they are for the average academic requester. or else i think google would have their own platform by now.

Google has been saying that they are developing their own platform, but competing with a tried and true site is difficult. Just look at Google Plus and Facebook.

 

[jan]

Title: This is a 2 min survey about your experiences with airports. Quick, easy, and fun! | PANDA Requester: UM [A2FI5PAPNNIR8M] (TO) TO Ratings: 3.88 Communicativity 3.54 Generosity 4.76 Fairness 4.58 Promptness Number of Reviews: 50 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: In our pretests, people took 2 minutes on average to complete the survey. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT IF YOU TOOK IT BEFORE. Max time allowed: 30 min Time: 30 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $0.20 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 96; Total approved HITs is greater than 50; Location is US

 

[jan]

does anyone else have a bunch of unapproved Zing's?
(I have a few hundred from yesterday, and given how fast they normally approve...........it sort of worries me

 

[Pleco]

Google has been saying that they are developing their own platform, but competing with a tried and true site is difficult. Just look at Google Plus and Facebook.

I'm thinking although the data itself is very valuable, setting up the whole service is probably not that profitable. Amazon seems to barely care about it, and Facebook and Google, or some of the other tech giants haven't tried building a competing platform yet.

 

[frogman31680]

I'm killing myself with these percy's

How did you catch so many?

I tried pandas, but nothing...

 

[essjay]

Just look at Google Plus and Facebook.

Heh, I set up a g+ account on the first day they let employees start inviting friends, but deleted it when they started trying to force me to use my real name on YouTube. Nope.

 

[jan]

I'm thinking although the data itself is very valuable, setting up the whole service is probably not that profitable. Amazon seems to barely care about it, and Facebook and Google, or some of the other tech giants haven't tried building a competing platform yet.

I know nothing about this, but here's one guess:
http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/11/is-mechanical-turk-10-billion-dollar.html

 

[essjay]

Where's @ChristopherASA?

Title: Invitation to Ages 75 and above only. Survey on Attitudes, Values and Public Policy | PANDA Requester: Tom Bowerman [A1B6ERVTF8W5E1] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 5.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.62 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.75 Promptness Number of Reviews: 24 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Age 75 and above only, otherwise subject to disqualification. Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.04 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 96;Total approved HITs is greater than 50;Location is US