11/05 - Sciency Saturday!

[kryss]

No, there wasn't. Once I clicked the last arrow on the last page, it was gone.

When you accept a HIT, go to this page: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/myhits

Click "show all details"

There is a contact link.

 

[electrolyte]

A lot of scammers will get exposed right away so paying a fee will probably hurt them a lot and make scamming not worth it thus eliminating them. If workers paid a fee in order to lower the requester 40% fee we will see requesters offer more money for their hits.

Even if I had to pay $10 to use MTurk and the requester fees got lowered in exchange, then requesters could afford to pay workers a little more (but would they do that, or would they just keep that extra money?), and if they paid workers a little more, I'd maybe earn my $10 back. No real difference there.

 

[Vanyanka]

Too much nonsense in this thread

(Hi)

Yer nonsense.

 

[Jaded]

Yer nonsense.

Rude and true

 

[carbonmonoxyd]

I agree. Now only if amazon will lower the requester fee. They should make workers pay some amount of money because for one it will get rid of a lot of the scammers and two we should see a pay raise in our wage. My two cents anyways.

i don't think that will happen, i bet they are pretty butt hurt that the new "premium qualifications" are not very successful.

 

[catnapped]

Yeah, I haven't gotten last week's check yet. I will be filing a complaint with your wife.

Post office is slow, sorry

 

[A6_Foul_Out]

Even if I had to pay $10 to use MTurk and the requester fees got lowered in exchange, then requesters could afford to pay workers a little more (but would they do that, or would they just keep that extra money?), and if they paid workers a little more, I'd maybe earn my $10 back. No real difference there.

unless that fee caused a massive increase in the quality of work submitted. (there's no real reason to believe that follows though)

increasing requester willingness (or # of requesters) to increase total work.

 

[WalkingEmphasis]

Title: Get Paid to Learn a New Skill ($12 for 60 minute task) | PANDA Requester: Erik Santoro [A1XRZQMN26X5F8] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 4.06] [Fair: 4.56] [Comm: 4.29] [Fast: 4.88] Description: The purpose of this assignment is to teach you a new skill, based on a training from Stanford University. Time: 3 hour(s) HITs Available: 2 Reward: $12.00 Qualifications: Q_11.4 Exists;

 

[catnapped]

Too much nonsense in this thread

(Hi)

:mallow

 

[cassius]

I'm confused how making workers pay to use MTurk would get rid of scammy requesters or lead to an increase in my own earnings.

they should not make workers pay to work here. That will put it in the same place as people who run scams on the Internet.

 

[weakman]

Even if I had to pay $10 to use MTurk and the requester fees got lowered in exchange, then requesters could afford to pay workers a little more (but would they do that, or would they just keep that extra money?), and if they paid workers a little more, I'd maybe earn my $10 back. No real difference there.

If scammers are eliminated they would probably be able to offer more money right away. Not only this but we will get more work because that is probably the biggest obstacle for a lot of requesters.

 

[weakman]

i don't think that will happen, i bet they are pretty butt hurt that the new "premium qualifications" are not very successful.

"Premium qualifications"?

 

[kryss]

I bet if you had to pass a test to make an mturk account the quality of HIT submissions would improve and pay wouldn't constantly be decreased.

 

[electrolyte]

they should not make workers pay to work here. That will put it in the same place as people who run scams on the Internet.

I agree. They should not, nor do I believe they ever would, make workers pay to use the platform.

 

[carbonmonoxyd]

Even if I had to pay $10 to use MTurk and the requester fees got lowered in exchange, then requesters could afford to pay workers a little more (but would they do that, or would they just keep that extra money?), and if they paid workers a little more, I'd maybe earn my $10 back. No real difference there.

I think that charging workers sets a dangerous tone, and could cause them some liability. The requesters all talk together and exchange information, they will only pay what they can get away with.

 

[electrolyte]

"Premium qualifications"?

https://blog.mturk.com/introducing-premium-qualifications-1e473456e7b0

https://requester.mturk.com/help/faq#how_use_premium_qualifications

 

[SquishyFluffkin]

Note: The page submit button will appear eventually.

 

[cassius]

I agree. They should not, nor do I believe they ever would, make workers pay to use the platform.

It would hurt them because to pay to work is not the thing to do and not matter that it is Amazon,there will be many articles written about the scam they are running just because they made us pay. Won't be worth it to them. Other platforms will take over.

 

[ecko]

Note: The page submit button will appear eventually.

Yea i thought that was especially special. Yibo Zhang, right?

 

[Natalie]

A lot of scammers will get exposed right away so paying a fee will probably hurt them a lot and make scamming not worth it thus eliminating them. If workers paid a fee in order to lower the requester 40% fee we will see requesters offer more money for their hits.

There are some requesters (esp from big name university and departments) that are getting their research funded from and because of the valuable data that (most) of us provide. Paying a fee defeats the purpose of a platform like this imo and I don't know about anyone else but i wouldnt be paying (however small the fee is) to do other peoples work or push out data for people getting paid. On the flip side, Amazon fees for requesters are already ridiculous