10/20 - Terminal Velocity Thursday!

[mordea]

How many blocks can you get before you're banned from mturk?

My previous account got blocked by at least 10 Google accounts in one day and I was suspended like three days later

 

[ccmet121]

Doesn't seem safe last few days. Think I'll stick to some awesome surveys today.

 

[T. Leela]

tl;dr

I read the punch line.

I rarely do their hits WTF!

Greetings from Mechanical Turk.

We regret to inform you that you were blocked from working on HITs by the following requester(s):

Pinterest

Requesters typically block Workers who submit poor quality work.

Should additional requesters block you in the next few months, we may suspend your account.

Regards,
The Mechanical Turk Team

I got that too, I don't get it. I went quickly a couple times when the scripts were working better, but I always did them correctly. I got a $2 one yesterday, so its just for one hit? It would be nice to have some kind of explanation.

 

[lsutiger25]

A block is a block

Thanks. I had one but they reversed it and took it off after I sent that requester an e-mail

 

[CloudNine]

I rarely do their hits WTF!

Greetings from Mechanical Turk.

We regret to inform you that you were blocked from working on HITs by the following requester(s):

Pinterest

Requesters typically block Workers who submit poor quality work.

Should additional requesters block you in the next few months, we may suspend your account.

Regards,
The Mechanical Turk Team

Wow wtf

 

[T. Leela]

Thanks. I had one but they reversed it and took it off after I sent that requester an e-mail

For pinterest or someone else?

 

[electrolyte]

If you get the e-mail from Amazon thats a hard block right?

Blocks issued by requesters are all functionally the same. A block is a block. Some requesters use quals to prevent workers from doing their HITs and that's a better method of "blocking", but any time you get the "The Requester (Pinterest) has chosen to prevent you from working on any of this Requester's HITs" message, that's a block regardless of whether or not you got an email from Amazon.

 

[Kamalani]

Good morning all. I know this was probably answered yesterday, but did everyone get this message from Research Task?

We would like to emphasize that it is very important that you answer the question using as few words as possible i.e. avoid forming phrases or sentences and only include the relevant part of the answer. Eg: For the question, "How many people are smiling?", your answer should be "3" and not "there are 3 people smiling". If you are found to be not following the instructions, your work will be rejected. Also, please do not confuse the answer with your confidence about the answer. Use the confidence button to indicate how certain you are about your entered answer so we can estimate uncertainty. Please use it accordingly and avoid usage of words indicating uncertainty as the answer. Good Job! Thank you for your work.

I know I made sure to give 1 word/number answers and I used their shortcuts.

 

[lsutiger25]

For pinterest or someone else?

Someone else, so its worth it to try and contact them

 

[geo]

morning <3

 

[lsutiger25]

Good morning all. I know this was probably answered yesterday, but did everyone get this message from Research Task?

We would like to emphasize that it is very important that you answer the question using as few words as possible i.e. avoid forming phrases or sentences and only include the relevant part of the answer. Eg: For the question, "How many people are smiling?", your answer should be "3" and not "there are 3 people smiling". If you are found to be not following the instructions, your work will be rejected. Also, please do not confuse the answer with your confidence about the answer. Use the confidence button to indicate how certain you are about your entered answer so we can estimate uncertainty. Please use it accordingly and avoid usage of words indicating uncertainty as the answer. Good Job! Thank you for your work.

I know I made sure to give 1 word/number answers and I used their shortcuts.

I got it too- and I did the same things you did...I knew I did them all right too

 

[Jaded]

morning <3

who're you

 

[T. Leela]

Good morning all. I know this was probably answered yesterday, but did everyone get this message from Research Task?

We would like to emphasize that it is very important that you answer the question using as few words as possible i.e. avoid forming phrases or sentences and only include the relevant part of the answer. Eg: For the question, "How many people are smiling?", your answer should be "3" and not "there are 3 people smiling". If you are found to be not following the instructions, your work will be rejected. Also, please do not confuse the answer with your confidence about the answer. Use the confidence button to indicate how certain you are about your entered answer so we can estimate uncertainty. Please use it accordingly and avoid usage of words indicating uncertainty as the answer. Good Job! Thank you for your work.

I know I made sure to give 1 word/number answers and I used their shortcuts.

I got that, I think it was just a general message to people who did the hits, not to specific people. I know I gave one or two word answers as much as possible.

 

[chuchotant]

I read the punch line.

I got that too, I don't get it. I went quickly a couple times when the scripts were working better, but I always did them correctly. I got a $2 one yesterday, so its just for one hit? It would be nice to have some kind of explanation.

did you do the 40 cent food one?

 

[Squatty]

Everyone who received a block from Pinterest should email them explaining how Blocks can impact your accounts and ask them if they could use dis-quals instead?

 

[adude]

Title: 8 Minute Survey: Personality, Social and Political Attitudes(~ 8 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Steven Shepherd [A1S5964DJ9DQLG] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 4.13 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.73 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.74 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.79 Promptness Number of Reviews: 68 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: You are being invited to participate in a research project by investigators from the University of Kansas and Oklahoma State University. This study looks at people’s personality, social, and political beliefs Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.40 Qualifications: Exc: [211350-23862] has not been granted;HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95;Location is one of: US

 

[bigsexy420]

Thank you again for completing our mTurk study on the first presidential debate!
Please find below details for a new invitation-only survey at $1.00 for 5 min based on last night'sfinal presidential debate, to be completed by 10pm ET tonight (10/20).
Here's the link to the HIT: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3R69OQ7*
Best,
Michael

Well shit now I gotta go find the gag reel and see what went wrong last night.

 

[geo]

who're you

Exactly.

 

[mTurk8705]

Is it OK to celebrate getting a qual in this thread? I'm not sure what the etiquette might be here. I don't want to offend anyone.

 

[Cruxy]

I got this block yesterday...Never done a single hit by them. Though i was using their hits as a captcha clear.

Greetings from Mechanical Turk.

We regret to inform you that you were blocked from working on HITs by the following requester(s):

CopyText Inc.

Requesters typically block Workers who submit poor quality work.

Should additional requesters block you in the next few months, we may suspend your account.

Regards,
The Mechanical Turk Team