From what I gather it's rather arbitrary, and I'm not even sure that you have to get blocks to get your account suspended. Whatever algorithm they are using is more than likely made up by some person who has Mturk as a secondary assignment.
You can get your account suspended for a bunch of random reasons. I think Tribune recently had his taken away because his requester quals had "obscene" names. Low accuracy on HITs is a more common reason, but what qualifies as "low" isn't clear- some people got tagged as having poor accuracy, when their accounts were at 97 percent, which is widely considered "Pretty OK". You can get suspended if Amazon tries to verify some kind of account information and fails (can happen if you change addresses).
Feast or famine type day.
Has this changed for anyone else?
I did OK yesterday so I'll survive, but y'knowFeast or famine type day.
You either were lucky enough to catch the high paying HITs or you were caught out in the rain
now when I see that I'm going to think I've maxed out for the entire day...this is going to be confusing
I haven't been on mturk much lately, but I was wondering if this is what causes the annoying whiffing on batches that aren't gone.
My ex had 400 hits within 7 months and got 2 blocks about 4 months apart and got banned after the second one. That's what makes me think it was tied to hits too. Then again as you both say, who knows with Amazon.
On the opposite side of the coin, Amazon can choose to reward you for arbitrary reasons. It's like living in a made up world with made up rules. I've read some sci-fi novels like this. (By the way, Octavia Butler is awesome) I think the person who finally figures this all out will be a bit of a folk hero. The average worker might end up singing praises to the God of Mturk Explanations for a very long time.
ersevere: