It's almost insane how long it's taking him to finish. Especially because a lot of what should have been in book 5 was cut and moved to TWOW. I know a lot needed to be edited and all that, but if you already have almost 1/5 of a book done....just finish it!
Look I've been on the Song of Ice and fire ride since 1996 I have to reread every book ever 5 years or so to remember wtf is even going on so i can go onto the next book that is released. I'm over it, thank god for the t.v. series.
The Reddit user who was interviewed for this seemed to be a rather simple mind.
| Title: 8-minute survey for $0.80 | PANDA Requester: The Wharton School [ABIUW8FBC3EE7] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: 3.97][Fair: 4.64][Comm: 4.11][Fast: 4.58] Description: Complete an 8-minute survey for $0.80 Time: 40 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $0.80 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 100; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 97; Location is US |
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| Title: 20 min survey of your opinions about current figures in the news. | PANDA Requester: Clemson Psychology [A3W20E7XD9O6U7] (TO) TO Ratings: 
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Maybe you're not as high as you look eitherThat cliff isn't as high as it looks.
And specifically telling requesters that they should pay a shit wage.
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He is exactly as high as he looks.Maybe you're not as high as you look either
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I know that feel.. I mean I've only been on the train since book three but I get it.. But like I mentioned earlier I love rereading this series lol
Yeah, there will always be cheap requesters, but luckily we have each other (aww) and tools like TO to choose not to support them. However, I think advocacy is important to call attention to shitty pay and the ethics of how that actually effects turkers, who are in fact real people. Hopefully more potential requesters will learn something from that and jump on board with the ethical side of things.
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Most of his time is spent on continuity editing though. He might have 1/5 of the book written theoretically but all that has to be checked and rechecked to make sure he doesn't miss those little errors like a skinny girl getting wider hips or a horse suddenly being a different gender. That kind of thing is a huge deal when you have a fandom that will tear every single little thing apart and come up with time traveling fetuses and shit
