10/27 - Tangy Thursday!

[thedorchannel]

holy fucking shit. copytext just blocked me for using their hits to clear captchas! I've never actually done one!

 

[Jaded]

holy fucking shit. copytext just blocked me for using their hits to clear captchas! I've never actually done one!

This has been happening the past two weeks or so

 

[electrolyte]

How do we know that Amazon doesn't see a difference between a soft and hard block? Did they say so? Just because it shows just one option for requesters doesn't mean Amazon doesn't have some way of telling the difference on their end. That is unless like I said they did say something and I just wasn't around for the news.

They've said that when suspending workers, they consider the blocks on the account and the reasons. They've said that blocks for preventing retakes do not count toward suspension. But the terms "soft blocks" and "hard blocks" are terms MTurkers made up.

 

[lorraine]

Title: Survey: evaluation of news page designs & opinions on current web developments (~ 45 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Evert de Haan [A6VRG7W731ZFC] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 0.00 Generosity ★★★★★ 0.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 0.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 2 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: In the first part of the survey, you will be asked to read and evaluate the design of different news pages. A second part asks for your opinion on current web developments. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $4.00 Qualifications: Evert de Haan Block Past Workers has not been granted;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95;Location is US

Anyone have a time on that 4.00 Evert de Haan(evaluation of news page designs) hit?

~20m

 

[phusia]

Title: Answer a 3-5 minute academic survey about fairness | PANDA Requester: FSUGrad1984 [A1E2ILVLKJEJNT] (Contact) (TO):[Pay: 4.83][Fair: 5.00][Comm: 0.00][Fast: 5.00] Description: Survey about fairness Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $0.50 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95, Total approved HITs is greater than 50, Location is US

1min.

 

[Deleted member 481]

Good morning/afternoon. Just got up. How's the turking day so far?

 

[C to the J]

Title: Possible Worlds Interpretation Study | PANDA Requester: ExperimArg [A1A2J6VZ8ZJSTN] (Contact) (TO):[Pay: 3.00][Fair: 5.00][Comm: 5.00][Fast: 5.00] Description: This HIT will ask you to reason about hypothetical alternative worlds Time: 50 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $0.75 Qualifications: Location is US

 

[ccmet121]

Good morning/afternoon. Just got up. How's the turking day so far?

Go back to bed.

 

[Deleted member 481]

Got two emails with the exact same bonus amount. Assuming I only get one of the bonuses, lol.
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from McDermott Experiments for work related to 3LCXHSGDLTE1KVY2MHNVQI1O43QSEG.
The value of your bonus is: $3.25 USD

 

[thedorchannel]

on the Michael Russo hits, i cant select the amazing option. is this happening with anyone else?

 

[Peachy]

Message from Emma Levine [mod edit]
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We just launched a survey that you qualify for! It is paying $1.00 and most people complete it in about 8 minutes. THIS IS THE MANDATORY FOLLOW UP TO A STUDY YOU COMPLETED YESTERDAY.


I don't like requesters putting pressure on me like this

 

[Just Matthew]

You can fret over this that and the other but until you see this, just keep on keeping on.

 

[Jaded]

Regarding why hard block vs soft block became a thing:

That was something workers made up, and enough people said it so it became "official." Until workers with requester accounts started poking around "behind the scenes" and found there was only one button. Plus lots of conversations to requesters who were confused about how to "soft block" people to prevent retakes w/out hurting them.

It's always been something workers made up and told each other over and over until it became "true."


edit: I got distracted halfway through this. I think it still makes sense.

 

[Starslip]

Good morning/afternoon. Just got up. How's the turking day so far?

Well, it'd be good, if it didn't suck.

 

[ducky]

Good morning/afternoon. Just got up. How's the turking day so far?

 

[mTurk8705]

Regarding the earlier HIT from Dani Bassett Lab, here's their reply:

"I'm sorry that there was an error! We will look into this issue and make sure you get paid for partial completion of the HIT. What type of computer and browser were you using?"

Received reply in less than an hour.

 

[C to the J]

Got two emails with the exact same bonus amount. Assuming I only get one of the bonuses, lol.
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from McDermott Experiments for work related to 3LCXHSGDLTE1KVY2MHNVQI1O43QSEG.
The value of your bonus is: $3.25 USD

I'd imagine the requester screwed up.
I'm betting you get both.

Now it's a moral thing if you want to tell them about it or not.

 

[adude]

on the Michael Russo hits, i cant select the amazing option. is this happening with anyone else?

Yes. I'll be stopping until it's fixed.

 

[Starslip]

Regarding why hard block vs soft block became a thing:

That was something workers made up, and enough people said it so it became "official." Until workers with requester accounts started poking around "behind the scenes" and found there was only one button. Plus lots of conversations to requesters who were confused about how to "soft block" people to prevent retakes w/out hurting them.

It's always been something workers made up and told each other over and over until it became "true."

We make up a lot of things. Like good HITs. I'm pretty sure they're just a myth.

 

[Cruxy]

holy fucking shit. copytext just blocked me for using their hits to clear captchas! I've never actually done one!

- Me last week! lol

 

[ecko]

I'd imagine the requester screwed up.
I'm betting you get both.

Now it's a moral thing if you want to tell them about it or not.

Speaking of, does anyone know what happened with the person who got a $100 bonus instead of a $1.00 one. the requester said they were going to reverse it but there were people who thought they could not undo a bonus once it had been given.