I just remembered I wanted to share this with ya'll. The "Write 4 diaries and respond to questionnaires for $16" HIT by
ritajhang. I ended up completing the first HIT and this is what they told me.
Our sincere apologies: This was a test run and we have not had the rest of the survey finalized yet. We were experiencing technical difficulties and the task was published by mistake. Since this experiment requires 4 consecutive days of writing, we are simply unable to have you carry out the rest of experiment at this moment. We're sincerely sorry and we appreciate your time. We hope you could come back for the experiment when it is ready to go.
The HIT paid $0 so I guess there was no guarantee they'd pay but it's sad because I was anticipating doing the follow ups. I'm cursed with being unable to finish follow-up studies...
(I say this because the Brain Training HIT broke at the end of session 1 so I wasn't allowed to finish that one either.)