01/11 - We're One Year Wednesday!

[electrolyte]

Happy first anniversary to MTurk Crowd!​

I can't believe it's already been a year since a few of us had a crazy idea to go make a forum. But we did it! And it worked! And most importantly, all of you are here doing awesome things like contributing in all sorts of ways, posting HITs, helping new people, helping old people, adding to conversations, donating to keep our servers running, and generally being yourselves.

Here, have some cake!

I want to give a special shoutout and high five to the other excellent admins, @kryssyy, @aveline, and @Jaded, to our super cool mods, @jan, @jklmnop, @jml, @TQueen, and @TSolo315, to our threadmaster @TissueHime, and to @serverguy for dealing with the backend of things and putting up with us crazy turkers.

Now let's party!

 

[Jaded]

So it's been a year.

I'm glad that all of you are here. Without you, we wouldn't have a forum, and then I would just be lonely, and I'm not all about that life. I love (in a friendly way) most all of y'all and some of y'all are kinda like friends, and I would miss you if you weren't here. So you're not allowed to go away. I love the admin/mod team, none of them are annoying or rude which goes a long way to making me stay here. I just want to say that I consider some of y'all like real friends and I'm glad I met y'all. Even though sometimes some of y'all make me wanna pull my hair out I still wouldn't get rid of you because it's nice to have people to talk to. Thanks for being here whether friend or just coworker. <3

Dance party time.

This was a lot longer, sappier and a bit cheesy but I cut most of it out because that's just how I roll. <3

 

[TissueHime]

 

[jklmnop]

happy happy and late night batch dance!

 

[Starslip]

 

[aveline]

So this forum has been up for a year today (well, a year and a day because of leap year). I tend to get really sappy and long-winded with these sorts of things, so I'd like to keep it as brief as possible.

Thank you, everyone, for being here. I know turking isn't always easy. And I know many of us here were driven to turking because the lives that we live aren't easy. I know this first hand. I hope we can make it easier for everyone. I know it makes the day to day more tolerable for myself.

I love this community. I don't think any mturk community can make things easy, but I hope we can at least make it better. There's so much love and support here. The people here do so much for others. It's really something special to watch that evolve over a 12 month period. This place is the best.

For those that followed us over here twelve months and a day ago, and are still here.... thank you. I don't think I could even put into words the worry that we were feeling, asking people to pick a new forum when they had seen nothing wrong with the one they were on. We were essentially asking people to place trust in us that we were doing the right thing, and the response was incredible. Thank you for giving us a chance. This community would be nothing without you all.

Thank you, everyone! You guys are great. I can't wait to be writing cheesy posts to you all again, on our second anniversary.

So much love!
Aveline (Evelyn)

 

[turkleton]

 

[turkleton]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
It's okay to scam requesters
They ain't got nothing on you

 

[Starslip]

Ok party's over, shut up and work

Title: How natural is this video? [linguistics](~ 15 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Meaning and Modality Lab [APDC3PD79UWJ] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 5.00 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 0.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 2 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Watch short videos and decide how natural the dialogue is. Native English speakers only. Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Exc: [956812-30284] has not been granted;Location is one of: US

 

[jklmnop]

So this forum has been up for a year today (well, a year and a day because of leap year). I tend to get really sappy and long-winded with these sorts of things, so I'd like to keep it as brief as possible.

Thank you, everyone, for being here. I know turking isn't always easy. And I know many of us here were driven to turking because the lives that we live aren't easy. I know this first hand.

I love this community. I don't think any mturk community can make things easy, but I hope we can at least make it better. There's so much love and support here. The people here do so much for others. It's really something special to watch that evolve over a 12 month period. This place is the best.

For those that followed us over here twelve months and a day ago, and are still here.... thank you. I don't think I could even put into words the worry that we were feeling, asking people to pick a new forum when they had seen nothing wrong with the one they were on. We were essentially asking people to place trust in us that we were doing the right thing, and the response was incredible. Thank you for giving us a chance. This community would be nothing without you all.

Thank you, everyone! You guys are great. I can't wait to be writing cheesy posts to you all again, on our second anniversary.

So much love!
Aveline (Evelyn)

 

[Yatagarasu]

Title: 7 Min Survey for those who drink 5 or more alcoholic drinks on atleast 3 occasions in a week(~ 7 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Lilani [A3S79VYSHSGFYH] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: 5.00] [Reviews: 2] [ToS: 0] Description: A survey of craving and pleasure of alcohol Time: 45 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Location is one of: AU, US; Total approved HITs is not less than 1000; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Exc: [1529504789-30327] has not been granted;

HIT posted from Mturk Suite v1.2.1​

 

[Yatagarasu]

Title: Study on decision making | $0.25 | ~ 7 minutes | PANDA Requester: ESClabs [A1U8RL0GPUGR86] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 4.36] [Fair: 4.71] [Comm: 4.10] [Fast: 4.75] [Reviews: 83] [ToS: 0] Description: Take part in a psychological study on decision making Time: 8 hours HITs Available: 486 Reward: $0.25 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 100; HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 97; Location is US;

HIT posted from Mturk Suite v1.2.1​

 

[Starslip]

Title: Everyday Thinking | PANDA Requester: CL Wilson [A1J6O5UBV58BLW] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: We are interested in your ability to make numerical judgments. In this survey, you will answer several types of questions. Some are math questions and some ask how you feel about math, and some ask you to judge how much a variable might change. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Location is US

 

[aveline]

I would also like to give a very special shout out to two moderators, in particular. @jklmnop and @jml. The admins here always get the credit for starting this forum, but jklmnop and jml were with us from day 1. They are as responsible for what this forum is as @kryssyy, @aveline, @electrolyte, or @Jaded is. We wouldn't be what we are without their help.

I love both of you! You guys are the best!

 

[Yatagarasu]

Title: Citizenship at Work(~ 10 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Anthony Klotz [A3P3R4CIL7BIT2] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 4.75] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: 5.00] [Reviews: 8] [ToS: 0] Description: ACADEMIC RESEARCH: You will be asked to complete a short survey on your feelings and behaviors about your workplace. This is a 3-part study with total payment of $6.00. Time: 1 hour 25 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 100; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 90; Exc: [30815-30226] has not been granted; Location is one of: US;

HIT posted from Mturk Suite v1.2.1​

 

[Yatagarasu]

Title: College for the Sake of What? | PANDA Requester: Michael Yoder [A1FGDGVS7SZN1W] (Contact) TO: [Pay: 4.00] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] [Reviews: 1] [ToS: 0] Description: Survey for 4-year College/University Graduates Time: 30 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.20 Qualifications: Dissertation Helpers has not been granted; Location is US;

HIT posted from Mturk Suite v1.2.1​

 

[turkleton]

is this all u say now

 

[LegitApe]

 

[Kadauchi]

Everything below is based on grabbing 25 hits.

So earlier I posted how worker.mturk.com has a slower response time than old mturk.com by 200ms on average, but is 1/3 the size.

Spoiler: Image for response times and data size

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Well I decided to check exactly how long it takes to scrape all of the HITs for both sites.

mturk.com

worker.mturk.com

 

[Deleted member 526]