03/28 - Trapeze Thursday!

[CrazyCatLady]

I did not, but I apparently didn't do enough of the qual HITs.

I did 23 and I guess I didn't get enough right for him.
I blame my Southern lifestyle. We don't have all those fancy rooms he was wanting me to identify.

 

[reprise]

Geohive Administrator - requires a qual
GSB Crowd Forest - Masters and the batch is gone

thanks. i could have sworn i did a geohive thing for the qual a while ago but i guess not

 

[CrazyCatLady]

Got a photo on geohive with a bunch of military planes.
So exciting LOL

Why do they want us to do this? Should I worry about marking military stuff...

 

[Merovign]

I did not, but I apparently didn't do enough of the qual HITs.

You can share my salt if you want to throw some.

I got extra.

 

[Merovign]

thanks. i could have sworn i did a geohive thing for the qual a while ago but i guess not

Yeah I apparently caught the end of the previous batch but after spending a month sorting things out in emails with them they said "sorry new qual you missed it kthxbai".

 

[thismegan]

Afternoon everyone

Did anyone get the greg qual?

I did 20 qual HITs and don't have the "Good at Real Estate Image Classification V2" qual... yet.

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: Rate the quality of computer-generated speech - English@United States native only [#4675] | PANDA Requester: Speechfeedback [A2DPU6JE37X0YV] (Req TV): $17.18/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.10] [Fair: 3.94] [Comm: 3.18] [Fast: 3.24] Description: Listen to a recording of artificial speech and rate it on how correct and natural it sounds to you. Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 2 Reward: $1.20 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95;

 

[CrazyCatLady]

Title: Rate the quality of computer-generated speech - English@United States native only [#4675] | PANDA Requester: Speechfeedback [A2DPU6JE37X0YV] (Req TV): $17.18/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.10] [Fair: 3.94] [Comm: 3.18] [Fast: 3.24] Description: Listen to a recording of artificial speech and rate it on how correct and natural it sounds to you. Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 2 Reward: $1.20 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95;

I like these but I feel like they take me forever to do.
idk why

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: The Shapes Experiment - Batch 30 | PANDA Requester: Erik Thiessen [A1Y9CVLK7XYAUC] (Req TV): $12.25/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.57] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 3.25] [Fast: 5.00] Description: You will watch a sequence of video stimulus and be tested on what you learned. The entire experiment will take around 15 minutes. Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.25 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 5000; Shapes Experiment DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99;

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: Religion, Spirituality, Spirit Earn $3.00(~ 20 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Maat E. Lewis [AUTKY789HVCYS] (Req TV): $55.41/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: We are conducting an academic survey about how a person understands their religion, spirituality, and spirit. Select the Survey link below to complete the survey. At the end of the survey, you will receive a code to paste into the box below to receive credit for taking our survey. https://baseline.campuslabs.com/jjcocj/sosatfurthervalidation. Make sure to LEAVE THIS WINDOW OPEN as you complete the survey. When you are finished, you will return to this page to paste the code into the box. Time: 40 minutes(s) HITs Available: 9 Reward: $3.00 Qualifications: TP Panel: 363107201 N GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Location In US;

 

[nopoopwarez]

I like these but I feel like they take me forever to do.
idk why

These things are hit or miss. One will be super short and then the other will have double the amount of trials.

 

[nopoopwarez]

Title: Object Recognition Survey | PANDA Requester: CAB Lab [A1TC6B0U6K58RY] (Req TV): $25.94/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: Decide whether or not images contain a recognizable object. ~20 minute survey Time: 24 hour(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $5.00 Qualifications: Already completed DoesNotExist ; Masters Exists ;

 

[LucyO]

You can share my salt if you want to throw some.

I got extra.

 

[cyberwasp]

Well while we are spreading the salt around, i finally made it to the park to walk for the day, and it started to rain. But i walked anyways *shrugs*

 

[TotalBabe]

1:15

Title: Rate companies from various categories | Accept Requester: Consumer Panels [AUBFIGBO24FQ1] Contact TV: [Hrly=$31.90] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=Unrated] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: No Reviews TO2: [Hrly=null] [Pen=null] [Res=null] [Rec=0] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 0.50 Duration: 10:00 Available: 1 Description: Give an overall rating for various categories. Qualifications: Location EqualTo US

 

[alk69]

So, I just want to give everyone an update on what's going on with our server situation here and what we're kinda trying to deal with.

As you may or may not know, the person that previously setup and maintained the MTC servers parted ways with us back in February. The server setup that we inherited from him is, tbh, a little over our heads. We're setup on multiple servers with stuff like HAProxy and Kubernetes that we just don't really feel is necessary for a little MTurk forum like this. We've also been told by people that have worked with our setup recently, that do server stuff for a living, that it's over-engineered and completely overkill for our needs. It also seems to be breaking down on us and we haven't been able to figure out why. Our previous server person made some changes before handing things over to us, which included reconfiguring at least one of the kubernetes clusters, so we're not sure if the issues we're having may be related to something he changed. We attempted to reach out to him about a month ago, but he never got back to us, so I think this is something that we're going to have to figure out on our own.

So here's our plan: We think it would be best for us to get away from this setup and onto something a little more simple and easier to maintain. We think the easiest way to go about that would be to setup a new server alongside our current ones and migrate the database to it. Once everything is setup there, we can point the domain and HAProxy at the new server until the DNS fully propogates, then shut down HAProxy and the rest of the old setup. We think it's also safer this way because if we run into any unforeseen issues with the migration and something doesn't quite work, we'll still have the older setup (our current one) to fall back on. I tested this last night with a couple test forums that I have setup on other servers and it worked really well. Of course, the database from the test forum that I used was much, much smaller than MTC's database (and the server was configured in a completely different way), so I would like to do at least one or two test runs with the actual MTC database before doing this for real. I'm hoping to be able try that out this weekend some time.

So anyways, yeah. That's the current situation and what we're kinda wanting to do. I know we had a rather lengthy downtime on Tuesday, and a brief hiccup yesterday, but we are working on a sustainable solution to this ongoing problem. Just please be patient and bear with us (learning is a slow process). Also, if you happen to know anything about this sort of thing and you think we're stupid for even considering what I said above, please let us know. I'm very new to this, so I welcome any input I can get from people that know what they're talking about.

Thanks, everyone. <3

All those words seem to make sense until I try to understand them all put together. Thank you any way, although I have no idea what I'm thanking y'all for. ........Ah, of course. For running the forum. THANK YOU!!!

 

[Tandem In Time]

Title: The Shapes Experiment - Batch 30 | PANDA Requester: Erik Thiessen [A1Y9CVLK7XYAUC] (Req TV): $12.25/hr/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.57] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 3.25] [Fast: 5.00] Description: You will watch a sequence of video stimulus and be tested on what you learned. The entire experiment will take around 15 minutes. Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.25 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 5000; Shapes Experiment DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99;

Every damn time I see $2.25 as the reward for any HIT my brain reflexively thinks, "Is Dermot Lynott back!!?"

 

[sarcasta]

~3 mins.

Title: Answer a survey about data incident news | Accept Requester: Chang Ham [A1HYK3LGPZ00OJ] Contact TV: [Hrly=$20.97] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=Unrated] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 20:00 Available: 1 Description: Give us your thoughts and feelings about data incident news Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 5000; Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99; Location EqualTo US

Well gee, they don't want much for quals, do they?

You can share my salt if you want to throw some.

I got extra.

oooh! Me too! I'll throw it at Greg and Hannah and Vicky and CVT, to name a few

 

[Diviana]

Is there a script that keybinds submit to enter and return some I don't know escape or some other key.

 

[Peachy]

"Take selfies and get paid!!"

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