05/19 - Toy Fox Thursday!

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God forbid the label on his own box be incorrect. Like I doubt it even takes that long to fix those types of issues.
I was there for 3 wonderful years. I have stories for days. Especially being a notary. "Oh no it's okay, my ID may be expired but you can still tell it's me." every other day.
 

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PRE submitting followed by "You or someone at this IP Address has already taken this HIT. Return the HIT."

Thanks again, TurkPrime :finger:
 

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Title: 5 minute study about your opinions with possible bonus | PANDA
Requester: S. Lempert [A2GXA4WTAG262Y] (TO)
TO Ratings:
★★★★★ 5.00 Communicativity
★★★★ 4.33 Generosity
★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness
★★★★★ 5.00 Promptness
Number of Reviews: 6 | TOS Flags: 0
Submit a new TO review
Description: 5-7 minute survey on your opinions about people
Time: 30 minutes
HITs Available: 20
Reward: $0.75
Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 100;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95;Location is US
Didn't get an exact time but under 5 mins and more interesting than most surveys.
 
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so you've made $100s of dollars off them but lost $2. Thats a fair trade
I didn't even bitch at them I figured I made a mistake of some sort, just saying some people might fly off the handle at something like that.
 

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I didn't even bitch at them I figured I made a mistake of some sort, just saying some people might fly off the handle at something like that.
I know what you mean. If I get a rejection i always ask to reverse whether its justified or not, but if they don't I just shake it off and go on. Its just part of the culture of the wild wild turk. there ain't no law west of the Bezos.
 

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Sometimes I just wonder if crowdsourcing has run it's course and that's why we can't make what we use to.
 

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Don't make me start talking about dogs and babies!

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I went to a preschool graduation last night for one of my daughter's friends. You would have died.. It was absolutely adorable.
 
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The fee hike was a bit more complex than that. Before July of last year, all non-masters HITs had a fee of 10% of whatever that HIT paid. Masters HITs had a fee of 30%. That 300% increase only applied to HITs that had 10 or more of the same HIT in a group (typically surveys). Everything else non-masters was increased from 10% to 20%. Masters fees were dropped from 30% to 25%. The reality of the whole fee hike situation wasn't as bad as many made it out to be.

If we're going to discuss why good requesters seem to be dwindling on mturk, why don't we also take a look at ourselves? Anyone that has ever done a HIT that had you grade another worker's submissions can tell you that most of the results that no or low qual requesters are getting are absolutely garbage. Then you add to that, the hostility that requesters often face when they attempt to reject said garbage. Mturk is not an easy place to get quality results unless you've been here for a long time and really know how to work with quals and stuff.
Little late to this...my old laptop actually caught something!

Anyway, this is VERY true. There's a couple of requesters that no longer come here after being here for years...and they did have hits where you grade the work of another turker. Most of the people did a good job, but my God the scammers pissed me off...it wasn't even my research and I was ticked for the requester. We have requesters who are still here but it's not even worth it to do their hits because they got scammed so hard, they don't trust anyon anymore...they were a little low on the pay but they were communicative, always approved, and did so promptly. Now they hand out rejections and blocks if they even think they are being scammed. There's others out there as well who have been scammed. Hope the scamming dicks enjoyed their ill gotten earnings because now NO ONE is earning anything from those once good and dependable requesters. The majority were not scamming, but it only takes one or two assholes to ruin it for everyone.
 
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rather lick stale cheese off a plate than working retail and dealing with cranky people all day. i'm a damn peach afterall. ain't got the strength for that anymore
Don't knock stale cheese. If that was all I had, I'd eat it.
 
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its not just the community. Its the internet generation. There are a lot of awful, worthless pieces of shit that have sprung up from the anonymity and entitlement the internet offers. People savage people horrendously in comments and chat and forums, and its become so commonplace that even when the anonymity is gone its almost acceptable in some groups to behave that way.

When i say entitlement I am not talking about the political bullshit people always throw back and forth I am talking about how used to people are to having everything on the internet being free. Before the internet almost nothing was free or if it wa sit took some effort to acquire it, you paid for encyclopedies, you paid for newspapers, you paid for art, you paid for books (or walked your ass to the library to check it out), etc. Now the internet generation thinks content providers and creators owe it to them free and lord help the person who holds it back from them.
Aint that the truth. When I was a kid I actually enjoyed reading encyclopedias. My grandpa took me to the library once a week and there was this thing called a card catalog. I feel like this newer generation is actually handicapped to some extent. GET OFF MY LAWN! or something
 
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Little late to this...my old laptop actually caught something!

Anyway, this is VERY true. There's a couple of requesters that no longer come here after being here for years...and they did have hits where you grade the work of another turker. Most of the people did a good job, but my God the scammers pissed me off...it wasn't even my research and I was ticked for the requester. We have requesters who are still here but it's not even worth it to do their hits because they got scammed so hard, they don't trust anyon anymore...they were a little low on the pay but they were communicative, always approved, and did so promptly. Now they hand out rejections and blocks if they even think they are being scammed. There's others out there as well who have been scammed. Hope the scamming dicks enjoyed their ill gotten earnings because now NO ONE is earning anything from those once good and dependable requesters. The majority were not scamming, but it only takes one or two assholes to ruin it for everyone.
I hope more requesters handle scamming like hotel photos did. very few of us got that qual but they're still on mturk.
 
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