11/05 - Sciency Saturday!

[vickiJ]

I haven't received an email yet, but I'm assuming it was based on number of blocks. I've had 3 over the last couple of months. I did about 500 of the Hazy Researcher HITs today, and I guess they had blocked me as well.

Sorry to hear! Who were the other two blocks from?

 

[BrewMeister]

use gifs for attention boosting

 

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Sorry to hear! Who were the other two blocks from?

Melissa - Masters categorization requester - Was testing a script and it didn't work, so I accidentally submit a ton of blank HITs
Aleksandra Kocheva - survey requester - Answered an attention check incorrectly, took the survey again and submit it. Totally deserved it.

I would say I've had 4-5 hard block emails this year

 

[SweetiePuff]

Hmmm, that's funny ... this gif has sound! Oh wait ... that's just in my head I <3 Kermie

 

[ccmet121]

Wow this video made we never want to eat a pig again.

 

[catnapped]

I would say I've had 4-5 hard block emails this year

Yeah, that's a problem.

 

[Matilda Jones]

Anyone else not able to login to mturk on their phone or is it just me? I'm fine on my desktop but on my phone it just keeps redirecting me to a "your session has expired" page and I can't get to the login page.

 

[Tribune]

That was the only batch I had worked on today/lately. The last rejection I had was in the middle of October. I'll just have to wait for their email to come in and see what I can do. @Tribune any tips?

I agree with @electrolyte -- go ahead and use the Contact Us webform to get the ball rolling.
Be polite and concise. (Be sure to keep a copy of what you say, since it's just a webform).

Do ask the reason for the suspension -- and don't be surprised if Amazon's eventual answer turns out to be inaccurate, or downright dishonest.

Be persistent. Even after Amazon admitted its error in my March 28 suspension, they didn't restore my worker account until fourteen hours after they claimed to have done so .. and it still took eight days for them to restore one of my requester accounts.



Just because Amazon's Mechanical Turk team does this stuff, every day, for a living, doesn't mean that they're good at it.

 

[SarahAshlee90]

Anyone know if there is a way to see if a specific requester hard-blocked me WITHOUT trying to accepts one of their hits?

The reason I ask is I used copytext to clear over 1000 captcha's and never got the dreaded suspension threatening email everyone else did. I cant figure out why.

 

[ecko]

Anyone know if there is a way to see if a specific requester hard-blocked me WITHOUT trying to accepts one of their hits?

The reason I ask is I used copytext to clear over 1000 captcha's and never got the dreaded suspension threatening email everyone else did. I cant figure out why.

Just go to the preview of the hit, it will tell you.

 

[YAHU]

dafuk is going on in here today

 

[aveline]

dafuk is going on in here today

 

[SarahAshlee90]

Just go to the preview of the hit, it will tell you.

It looks normal, are you certain this means I haven't been blocked?

 

[FireMonkey]

Title: Investor Judgments | PANDA Requester: Yibo Zhang [A2OA99ONERSQSW] (TO) TO Ratings: 0.00 Communicativity 5.00 Generosity 5.00 Fairness 5.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 2 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Participants in this HIT will play the role of investors Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $2.50 Qualifications: Finance and Accounting Knowledge is not less than 70; HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95; Location is US

 

[Digital Nomad]

Blah Projected Earnings for today 1.25 Kill me now. I need to hit at least 60 today

 

[ecko]

It looks normal, are you certain this means I haven't been blocked?

Yes, if you are blocked there will be a message even when just trying to preview the hit. I have been checking copytext every day too, i used them all the time and did not get blocked either.

 

[Peachy]

Yeah, that's a problem.

ive had 2-3 so far

 

[Elairiah]

Title: Perceptions of organizations(~ 1 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Simone Tang [AQ74Q2Z0O5CPI] (TO) TO Ratings: 4.76 Communicativity 4.53 Generosity 4.88 Fairness 4.78 Promptness Number of Reviews: 91 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: $.25 for 1-2 minutes Time: 15 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $0.25 Qualifications: Exc: [25275629-25385] has not been granted; Location is one of: US

 

[chuchotant]

afternoon
Just had brunch with the fam and I have a report from the field.
Thanks to the scientific wrangling of my 9 and 16 year olds we calculated that its been
448 Mercury years
175 Venus years
108 Earth years
57 Mars years and
9 Jupiter years
since the Cubs won the world series.
You're welcome.

 

[Bode "Emo Barry" Miller]

afternoon
Just had brunch with the fam and I have a report from the field.
Thanks to the scientific wrangling of my 9 and 16 year olds we calculated that its been
448 Mercury years
175 Venus years
108 Earth years
57 Mars years and
9 Jupiter years
since the Cubs won the world series.
You're welcome.

all of those stats are wrong. tell your 9 and 16 year olds they know nothing
it's been 0 years since the Cubs won the world series