08/30 - Houston Wednesday

[ecko]

I am going to calm down a bit so I can use my adult words and then hit their website and twitter plus any other way I can find.

acting like an adult is always the best course of action. even if they have not shown you the same courtesy. flies with honey and all that.

 

[hyway]

I was considering turking on my kindle with a cracked screen and no scripts but it looks like searching the parking lot for loose change will give greater results.

 

[Kuddish]

Nice way to start

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[Kerek]

Oh boy I really wasn't mad about the 16 Monkey Learn rejects till just now...

Hi, Steven.

First of all, I would like to thank you for the time you've taken to write to us asking about the rejection. I just wanted to let you know that we manually revised a random subsample of the batch we sent (20%) and most of the annotations were wrong. Since this was a binary annotation task, we had no alternative but to reject the whole batch. I know this might seem unfair to workers who might have provided good annotations, but, as you will understand, if we have to change most of the annotations of a binary annotation task manually, we'd prefer to annotate the samples ourselves.

If you think there was a problem with the task itself, we would really appreciate it if you could give us feedback on the instructions of the task so as to help us improve our future submissions.

Regards,

Hernán.

If you're going to check 20% of the HITs, why not do 20% from each person, then reject or accept their individual contributions based on that check?

 

[SalvadorZombie]

Great movie.

It springs to mind every time some shit like this happens. Every fucking excuse.

 

[basketcasey]

Title: Survey: Political Views and Attitudes | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Clayton Besaw [A3TN4ELQJA0D5K] (Contact) TO 1: Not Available TO 2: Not Available Reward: $1.00 Duration: 2 hours Available: 1 Description: Answer a series of demographic questions and provide answers to hypothetical political situations. Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Location is US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.5​

 

[JenniLeigh]

Is it slow enough to nap?
Also, hiiiiii @basketcasey

 

[j0e]

Oh boy I really wasn't mad about the 16 Monkey Learn rejects till just now...

Hi, Steven.

First of all, I would like to thank you for the time you've taken to write to us asking about the rejection. I just wanted to let you know that we manually revised a random subsample of the batch we sent (20%) and most of the annotations were wrong. Since this was a binary annotation task, we had no alternative but to reject the whole batch. I know this might seem unfair to workers who might have provided good annotations, but, as you will understand, if we have to change most of the annotations of a binary annotation task manually, we'd prefer to annotate the samples ourselves.

If you think there was a problem with the task itself, we would really appreciate it if you could give us feedback on the instructions of the task so as to help us improve our future submissions.

Regards,

Hernán.

Mass rejects, blocks, then asks for help improving their HITs

 

[themildone]

Is it slow enough to nap?
Also, hiiiiii @basketcasey

definitely

 

[basketcasey]

Is it slow enough to nap?
Also, hiiiiii @basketcasey

Always.

And hi, my love.

 

[Pleco]

Morning peeps.

 

[Mr. Krabs]

Title: Decision Making Task vC3 (Extra bonus up to $3.00) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Yale Institute for Network Science [A2CGQ5942WIRAV] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 4.26] [Fast: 4.91] [Comm: 4.23] [Fair: 4.93] [Reviews: 183] [ToS: 0] TO 2: Not Available Reward: $2.00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Available: 1 Description: Perform a decision making task with other Mechanical Turk workers. Bonuses are awarded based on performance. The task will take 10 - 15 minutes. If you accept this HIT you will have to fully participate in the task in order to get paid. Requirements: None;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.5​

 

[Roscoe E Goldchain]

somebody throw that damn $30 hit back

 

[Mr. Krabs]

Title: Smeeble day 2, continue to learn a small part of a new language. | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Kenny Smith [A2K4C3ROA6ONU2] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 4.56] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 10] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: --/hr] [Pen: 0.04 days] [Res: 100% of 1] [Rec: 0% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $4.00 Duration: 3 hours Available: 1 Description: Smeeble day 2, continue to learn a small part of a new language. The further you progress the more you earn (up to $6 total pay, plus unlock extra HITs). Requirements: Smeeble 2017 version D day 1 Exists ; Location EqualTo US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.5​

If you did part 1 yesterday

 

[themildone]

Title: Answer a simple survey about your behavior towards new technology | PANDA Requester: NJK [A2FPHJO5KARNR8] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 3.00] [Fair: 3.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fast: 3.00] Description: Simple survey asking about your personality traits and IT Use Time: 30 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Location In AU;

 

[SAJ]

If you're going to check 20% of the HITs, why not do 20% from each person, then reject or accept their individual contributions based on that check?

Yeah I don't quite buy this reason from them either because the rejects showed up really soon after I did the 16 hits of that batch. I was doing the price ones and then they switched to a dif batch and panda caught 16 before I turned it off. I was going to return them because I didn't like the subject as much but then looked and did them anyways. The 100 ish of the other batch are just fine sitting there pending.

 

[catnapped]

Mass rejects, blocks, then asks for help improving their HITs

I'm mass rejecting their hits when they show up and blocking them from HS/HF as a way of improving their hits.

 

[Kerek]

Yeah I don't quite buy this reason from them either because the rejects showed up really soon after I did the 16 hits of that batch. I was doing the price ones and then they switched to a dif batch and panda caught 16 before I turned it off. I was going to return them because I didn't like the subject as much but then looked and did them anyways. The 100 ish of the other batch are just fine sitting there pending.

Well, don't be too quick to discount the fact that people submit horrible, awful, very no good work all the time. If you've ever done a review batch of any kind, you'll see that immediately.

 

[SAJ]

On the bright side tho since 2008 this is the first time I have had more than 1 hit rejected so I guess that is a pretty damn good thing. Just got my blood boiling to go from 12 to 28 rejects.....the number 28 though is growing on me. I'll justify accepting it because 28 is my birthday....yeah that will work.

 

[SweetiePuff]

Title: Click and navigate through web design editor's menu | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Erik Goyette [A3CHW1W96G7AI] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: 0.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 0.00] [Reviews: 1] [ToS: 0] TO 2: Not Available Reward: $0.50 Duration: 3 hours Available: 1 Description: Help us understand where you would intuitively click to complete certain actions in a website editor in 9 short tests (10-15 seconds each) Requirements: Current palette navigation test 1 DoesNotExist ; Location In AU, CA, GB, NZ, US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.5​