06/21 - The Price is Right on Tuesday!

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Butterfly net.

Nah, if you aren't running a PANDA on Turkmaster there are still several ways to catch stuff.

If it's a big batch that's got thousands of HITs in it, you can just open the HITs up and accept them manually. Some batches go down so slowly, or have such short timers, that PANDA'ing them isn't entirely feasible or necessary.

For batches that have to be chased around, you can manually refresh the Preview and Accept link. It's slower, but it still works sometimes.

And then there's always just plain dumb luck, stumbling on something while you're searching on Mturk.

But because so many people use Turkmaster and PANDA links, you're competing against people who are much faster than you are manually, which is why running PANDAs is still the easiest way to get stuff.
Also, try observing which requesters drop batches that you like doing and put them into your Hit Monitor. Get alerts to your email/phone and never miss a batch again.
 
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wtf is a catfish?
A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.

Did you hear how Dave got totally catfished last month?! The fox he thought he was talking to turned out to be a pervy guy from San Diego!
 

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Title: Survey About Online Spending and Subscription Boxes | :panda:PANDA:panda:
Requester: Tate Handy [A2PUIUHNZ3HYU7] (Contact)
(TO):[Pay: 1.00][Fair: 5.00][Comm: 0.00][Fast: 5.00]
:nutbolt:Description: We'd like to learn more about your experiences with different online subscription boxes and how you feel about them.
Time: 25 minutes
Hits Available: 1
Reward: :moneybag:$0.26:moneybag:
Qualifications: Location is US
The survey was too long for the pay but it gave me a new box I want to subscribe to. :p
 

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A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.

Did you hear how Dave got totally catfished last month?! The fox he thought he was talking to turned out to be a pervy guy from San Diego!
Shut up! You don't know my life! It's just easier if I pretend to be a bearded man in his late 20s with a love of darkness and Rocky Horror okay?!
 

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A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.

Did you hear how Dave got totally catfished last month?! The fox he thought he was talking to turned out to be a pervy guy from San Diego!
Holy fuck! I got it cause I like to eat catfish.
 

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Butterfly net.

Nah, if you aren't running a PANDA on Turkmaster there are still several ways to catch stuff.

If it's a big batch that's got thousands of HITs in it, you can just open the HITs up and accept them manually. Some batches go down so slowly, or have such short timers, that PANDA'ing them isn't entirely feasible or necessary.

For batches that have to be chased around, you can manually refresh the Preview and Accept link. It's slower, but it still works sometimes.

And then there's always just plain dumb luck, stumbling on something while you're searching on Mturk.

But because so many people use Turkmaster and PANDA links, you're competing against people who are much faster than you are manually, which is why running PANDAs is still the easiest way to get stuff.
Or the hoard script. Back in the Mountain days I would set that bad boy off before doing a panda. (much faster than going through the steps to set up a panda in TM for me.)
 

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Title: Short (3 minute) survey about experiences in a service scenario | PANDA
Requester: Ross Sch of Business [A1K3G8KATA9ENC] (TO)
TO Ratings:
★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity
★★★★ 4.33 Generosity
★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness
★★★★ 4.71 Promptness
Number of Reviews: 9 | TOS Flags: 0
Submit a new TO review
Description: survey on how consumers evaluate their experiences in response to a particular service scenario
Time: 60 minutes
HITs Available: 1
Reward: $0.50
Qualifications: The List has not been granted;HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95;Location is US;Aribarg 2016 Past Worker has not been granted

about 1 min
 

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Butterfly net.

Nah, if you aren't running a PANDA on Turkmaster there are still several ways to catch stuff.

If it's a big batch that's got thousands of HITs in it, you can just open the HITs up and accept them manually. Some batches go down so slowly, or have such short timers, that PANDA'ing them isn't entirely feasible or necessary.

For batches that have to be chased around, you can manually refresh the Preview and Accept link. It's slower, but it still works sometimes.

And then there's always just plain dumb luck, stumbling on something while you're searching on Mturk.

But because so many people use Turkmaster and PANDA links, you're competing against people who are much faster than you are manually, which is why running PANDAs is still the easiest way to get stuff.
I've been setting up Panda's for stuff in TM as I find stuff I like to do that's quick (and I'm still working towards 500 hits, so most of them are stuff like business card transcription or screening images for adult content type stuff), and using HS when those don't seem to have anything going. I don't have alot of time to turk so I'm really trying to get efficient when I DO have time.
 
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