11/02 - Wacky Wednesday!

[A6_Foul_Out]

People were flat out scamming these. Submitting them without entering anything, repeating the same answers for everything, randomly filling stuff in, you name it. I wouldn't be surprised if over half of their data was just tossed out because they let it go unchecked for so long.

i'm assuming if a requester puts a 1 min AA, and somebody scams them, they are SOL for their money? their only recourse being to block?

 

[A6_Foul_Out]

I thought I saw someone here say they made a new one using a relative's SS per Amazon's instructions.

per Amazon's instructions

...

yeah that sounds like a great idea.

totally not fraud.

ID theft.

tax evasion.

nope nope nope.

 

[TobyF]

I thought I saw someone here say they made a new one using a relative's SS per Amazon's instructions.

At that point. Why would you wanna start over? building you hits up again... get quals again... i'd give up.

 

[RaiderJ]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Oct 29, 2016.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 3,500

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 3,411
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $0.81
- HIT reward earned: $179.68
- Total Amount earned this week: $180.49

 

[dittobb]

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Oct 29, 2016.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 460

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 421
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $10.60
- HIT reward earned: $161.82
- Total Amount earned this week: $172.42

 

[ducky]

I thought I saw someone here say they made a new one using a relative's SS per Amazon's instructions.

 

[KellieS23]

Title: Decision Making Study | PANDA Requester: Stanford GSB Behavioral Lab [A3OSXTUM1QEXNY] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 3.51] [Fair: 4.46] [Comm: 3.78] [Fast: 4.33] Description: $1 for 10 minutes! Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 69 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Location is US;

like 4 mins and I got a $0.50 bonus

 

[sinon]

per Amazon's instructions

...

yeah that sounds like a great idea.

Yeaaaah it sounded weird to me too. I would question how safe my account would be under someone else's SS.

At that point. Why would you wanna start over? building you hits up again... get quals again... i'd give up.

Probably just because mturk is the best work-from-home solution. At least...if you don't have your own business or something. I like the freedom it provides. It would definitely suck to have to build a new account...but I'd rather have a fresh start than be blocked permanently from such a good source of revenue.

 

[Kadauchi]

i'm assuming if a requester puts a 1 min AA, and somebody scams them, they are SOL for their money? their only recourse being to block?

Pretty much. I advocate to all requesters that I work for that they allow enough time for them to go through and check for scammer. They should allow for some mistakes here and there since we are human, but if you are getting more than 10% wrong, you should get rejected. Blocks reserved for those blatantly scamming. Lemme dig something up.

 

[ducky]

Yeaaaah it sounded weird to me too. I would question how safe my account would be under someone else's SS.


Probably just because mturk is the best work-from-home solution. At least...if you don't have your own business or something. I like the freedom it provides. It would definitely suck to have to build a new account...but I'd rather have a fresh start than be blocked permanently from such a good source of revenue.

i'd worry about more than just my account safety considering social security numbers

 

[Liz]

is it time yet?

 

[KellieS23]

Title: Only native speakers of American English, make 15 recordings of yourself saying short phrases.(20161102_en_US_EFT) | PANDA Requester: Acme Data Collection [A3A1AJ4RPLTOLY] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.61 Communicativity ★★★★★ 4.69 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.92 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.48 Promptness Number of Reviews: 83 | TOS Flags: 5 Submit a new TO review Description: Please answer a few demographic questions, then record yourself saying short phrases. Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Location is US

 

[Kadauchi]

Not all work is bad. Here is a piece of data from a requester.

Turkers were within 96% which is good considering this was done with relatively low qualifications attached to the HIT.

 

[sinon]

i'd worry about more than just my account safety considering social security numbers

Yeah that is true as well. That's why I find the option so odd. I would never feel comfortable doing that on my account, let alone feel comfortable enough to ask a relative for their SS for work purposes. Just seems like too many things could go wrong lol.

 

[kryss]

i'm assuming if a requester puts a 1 min AA, and somebody scams them, they are SOL for their money? their only recourse being to block?

Requesters can still reject if it's approved - pending payment.

 

[K'Lee]

Hell, I've seen people on here admit to scamming.

That's just wrong. I do my best no matter if it's a paid job or a free job. But that's just how I was raised. You should always do your best. Even if the job is sucky. If you agree to do it you should do it well. Just my opinion.

 

[bxpretzel]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Oct 29, 2016.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 307

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 454
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $13.05
- HIT reward earned: $150.39
- Total Amount earned this week: $163.44

lol it's wednesday mtruck is drunk

 

[Tigerpants]

@Tigerpants has 3 puppers or kittens on the way to anyone

or even everyone

 

[kryss]

is it time yet?

Almost!

 

[sinon]

That's just wrong. I do my best no matter if it's a paid job or a free job. But that's just how I was raised. You should always do your best. Even if the job is sucky. If you agree to do it you should do it well. Just my opinion.

Honest pay for honest work