10/20 - Terminal Velocity Thursday!

[Jaded]

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.

As long as you're not a dick about it it should be fine.

 

[Not A Robot]

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 email as well and I was confused as to why I was getting it. I think they are just trying to clarify about that new batch. I told them that batch was underpaid and needs to be bumped up to 10 cents.

 

[mordea]

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

I'm glad I mostly use brelig and p9r for captchas

 

[K'Lee]

Title: Survey: Biotechnology Changing Lives - TX - Must be 18+ | PANDA Requester: Rhett(Bravo) Hintze [AV60UH9IQAOXG] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.60 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 7 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: 15-minute survey about how biotechnology is changing lives. You must be 18 or older and a resident of Texas. Time: 35 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location is US-TX

Edit: ~8 minutes

Finally. A location based survey I qualify for.

 

[chuchotant]

It's my first block and I'm really trying not to cry
The long face horse joke helped with that
but its depressing seeing so many people going thru this
(my only hope is that it was a mistake)

 

[bigsexy420]

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

And now to turn the Pintrest Panda's off...

 

[bxpretzel]

Title: Answer a short survey about how you approach your home: fixing it, decorating it, and cooking in it. | PANDA Requester: Product Mgr [A1HUV6KDINHVHM] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fast: 5.00] Description: This survey should take 8-10 minutes to complete. We're a publisher of information about home and food. We'd like to understand how people learn about their homes and cooking & what info is helpful. Time: 24 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 5000; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 97; Location is US;

 

[Lauren]

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.

but the qual blocks won't make you look bad in amazon's eyes/lead to suspension, where as the "hard block"/emails will?

 

[rjd66]

I'm glad I mostly use brelig and p9r for captchas

same here

 

[T. Leela]

did you do the 40 cent food one?

no, i guess that would be the one i was blocked from? I never saw that one, but got the weird black hits from pc, and when i clicked to try to go to one it said the requester blocked me from it. plus the email.

 

[adude]

Title: Complete a 15 minute survey on food policy attitudes | PANDA Requester: FernbachLab [ARSBGE4L46MNW] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 4.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.81 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.90 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.85 Promptness Number of Reviews: 59 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Answer questions about food, food policy, and preferences Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95;Location is US

 

[Jaded]

but the qual blocks won't make you look bad in amazon's eyes/lead to suspension, where as the "hard block"/emails will?

quals are just quals, where blocks are blocks.

 

[mordea]

did you do the 40 cent food one?

I did it. Maybe my food trivia was just super horrible.

 

[K'Lee]

It's my first block and I'm really trying not to cry
The long face horse joke helped with that
but its depressing seeing so many people going thru this
(my only hope is that it was a mistake)

Have you emailed them?

 

[Not A Robot]

So Pinterest is blocking people now? does anyone have the PANDAs so I can check and see if they blocked me. I did that $2 HIT yesterday and I think that is the first time I had done their stuff.

 

[electrolyte]

but the qual blocks won't make you look bad in amazon's eyes/lead to suspension, where as the "hard block"/emails will?

A qualification is just that. Requesters use qualifications all the time to include/exclude certain workers so a requester issuing you a qualification or changing a qualification value that stops you from participating is a normal function of MTurk.

A requester going into the platform and clicking the "BLOCK WORKER" button does somehow alert MTurk and as @mordea said, it seems like lots of them can lead to account suspension. When a block email is sent out (and sometimes one gets sent when you get blocked and sometimes one doesn't get sent and no one knows why), it even says in the email that too many blocks in a short of an amount of time can lead to account suspension. But no one except Amazon knows what "too many" blocks is and how short or long that "amount of time" is.

 

[Kamalani]

I got that email as well and I was confused as to why I was getting it. I think they are just trying to clarify about that new batch. I told them that batch was underpaid and needs to be bumped up to 10 cents.

Whew, well I am glad I wasn't the only one but not glad we all got it. Makes me feel a little better. We are in the process of moving into our new (to us) house so I haven't had much time to turk and these were good fillers.

 

[mTurk8705]

As long as you're not a dick about it it should be fine.

OK.

Message from Bavelier Lab ([mod edit, email]
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You recently completed our qualification survey, and we'd like to inform you that based on your responses, you qualify for our current study!

It is a multi-HIT study that will take approximately 3.5 hours to complete. Each HIT in the study has its own estimated completion time and corresponding pay. Once you complete all 15 HITs in the study, you will receive a bonus of $11.40, for a total of $24 for the full completion of the study.

The batch of HITs can also be completed over several days, although we request that you take no longer than a week to complete the study. Please see the full instructions in the batch of HITs below. You will use this link for all of the HITs in the study.

YEEEE HAWWWW!

:musicnotes:

We now return to our regular programming. Good morning All!

 

[chuchotant]

Have you emailed them?

Yes. I figured why not.

 

[The Bad Ash]

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

Can we add something at the top about this. I haven't gotten blocked (fingers crossed) but I stopped using copytext to clear captchas when I saw the first person get blocked. People need to know to stop doing it.