04/30 - Meerkat Monday!

[rsclone]

Did I pick the wrong day to get try and get back into turking?

every day is the wrong day to Mturk for the most part...lol

 

[rjd66]

add energy drinks and weed and youll get $100 every day... i think.

Energy drinks while you work and weed after to help you relax so you feel like working the next day. Nice

 

[LittleDrummerBoy]

That's why I asked because I do all those things and still make crap money.

Well, it's different for everyone. I will say that in most aspects of life, given the same tools and opportunities, not everyone has the same outcome. Mturk is no different really. Closed quals do factor into things, as well as the fact that not every person will necessarily qual for the same stuff, as many things are limited to certain income levels, ages, genders, sexual orientations, employment status, etc, etc, etc...

 

[TSolo315]

I’m fine with that reasoning for not allowing it, and the qualification suggestion idea they give is perfect, but it just seems odd since so many requesters still get away with making us return hits after accepting over and over again anyway.

It sounds like all this did was if you open a HIT with a survey you had already done, it would immediately give you a "you have already done this survey, return please" message.

This is a GOOD WAY of screening people out, second only to using qualifications. Not sure why Amazon would be upset about that, considering the other shit they just let go.

 

[C to the J]

It sounds like all this did was if you open a HIT with a survey you had already done, it would immediately give you a "you have already done this survey, return please" message.

This is a GOOD WAY of screening people out, second only to using qualifications. Not sure why Amazon would be upset about that, considering the other shit they just let go.

I believe it was Turkcheck who added ads at the end of surveys so they probably got butthurt about that.

 

[shoesue87]

Title: Judging Face Similarity(~ 30 minutes) | Accept Requester: Eyewitness Lab [A23G14DF61WLWN] Contact TV: [Hrly: $10.63] [Pay: 4.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.67] [Fast: 4.33] [Comm: 3.00] [Fair: 4.33] [Reviews: 6] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $3.65 Duration: 45 minutes Available: 1 Description: You will be asked how similar you perceive pairs of faces to be. Requirements: Exc: [85976-85387] DoesNotExist; Location In AU, CA, GB, NZ, US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.2.3​

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[Mecca]

It's kind of odd how turk has gone the last 2 weeks, I've had rocking mornings followed with dead afternoons.

 

[shoesue87]

Title: Reading and Responding to Stories (~15 minutes) | Accept Requester: Benjamin Bergen [AWBXH1X3IXP0P] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay: 3.33] [Fast: 3.30] [Comm: 2.40] [Fair: 3.40] [Reviews: 17] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $2.50 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Read a series of short passages, then answer a timed question about the passage. Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Completed Reading/Responding to Stories DoesNotExist; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.2.3​

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[An Island in the Sun]

Multiple monitors with all my scripts on them.

Overwatch, Hit Finder, Hit Scraper, etc.


Today yes, on an average day I disagree.

God I wish I could get multiple monitors. And multiple computers while Im at it. As it is I have my almost ten year old low-ram Mac Mini with a 32” Dynex tv for a monitor (which is my only screen and doubles as my actual tv when I switch input). Sometimes when Im trying to do good hits fast my computer makes noise and gets overheated (loading pages) so I have to slow down just for that, and god forbid I try to keep on a hitfinder or PC while I’m doing work; the computer has a complete temper tantrum and won’t let me work. I’ve learned to work around these limitations but how nice it would be not to have them.

 

[C to the J]

God I wish I could get multiple monitors. And multiple computers while Im at it. As it is I have my almost ten year old low-ram Mac Mini with a 32” Dynex tv for a monitor (which is my only screen and doubles as my actual tv when I switch input). Sometimes when Im trying to do good hits fast my computer makes noise and gets overheated (loading pages) so I have to slow down just for that, and god forbid I try to keep on a hitfinder or PC while I’m doing work; the computer has a complete temper tantrum and won’t let me work. I’ve learned to work around these limitations but how nice it would be not to have them.

I feel your pain brother.
When I started on this hustle I think I was using a computer from '04-'05

 

[Shawnbks9090]

I feel your pain brother.
When I started on this hustle I think I was using a computer from '04-'05

..So watching batch hits as they come in is a good use of time.

 

[rjd66]

I feel your pain brother.
When I started on this hustle I think I was using a computer from '04-'05

Same here, but no longer

 

[A6_Foul_Out]

God I wish I could get multiple monitors. And multiple computers while Im at it. As it is I have my almost ten year old low-ram Mac Mini with a 32” Dynex tv for a monitor (which is my only screen and doubles as my actual tv when I switch input). Sometimes when Im trying to do good hits fast my computer makes noise and gets overheated (loading pages) so I have to slow down just for that, and god forbid I try to keep on a hitfinder or PC while I’m doing work; the computer has a complete temper tantrum and won’t let me work. I’ve learned to work around these limitations but how nice it would be not to have them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9cvkeo2GtU

This should be more than enough for you to turk. Follow the instructions and see what you can find on ebay with the processor/8gb ram and a ssd maybe.

 

[C to the J]

..So watching batch hits as they come in is a good use of time.

I mean if you have literally nothing else to work on yea.
But otherwise 99% of the time I'm working on something (even if it's a shit .50 survey) while keeping one eye/monitor on everything else and hoping something will save me.

 

[SAJ]

Title: Solve numerical reasoning puzzles | Accept Requester: TA Research [A2QN52Y15Q9P4S] Contact TV: [Hrly: $45.41] [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.54] [Fast: 4.34] [Comm: 3.16] [Fair: 4.28] [Reviews: 124] [ToS: 3] TO2: [Hrly: ---] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $4.00 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Solve numerical reasoning puzzles Requirements: Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.2.3​

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[An Island in the Sun]

It sounds like all this did was if you open a HIT with a survey you had already done, it would immediately give you a "you have already done this survey, return please" message.

This is a GOOD WAY of screening people out, second only to using qualifications. Not sure why Amazon would be upset about that, considering the other shit they just let go.

It sounded like it was that thing where you have to click on a link in a hit to see if you’re eligible, which is why it broke the “hits shouldn’t make you go to another link before accepting” thing. Yeah it’s better than some other things requesters do, but that’s not a high bar to reach. The qual thing is much better and any requester can do it so I don’t see any need for this turkcheck thing just imo.

 

[Shawnbks9090]

Same here, but no longer

ive got a monitor hookd up to a laptop with a dad screen. a tv hooked to a chromebook that has a cracked screen. and this laptop is broken in two so i have the screen leaning against some books

 

[LittleDrummerBoy]

God I wish I could get multiple monitors. And multiple computers while Im at it. As it is I have my almost ten year old low-ram Mac Mini with a 32” Dynex tv for a monitor (which is my only screen and doubles as my actual tv when I switch input). Sometimes when Im trying to do good hits fast my computer makes noise and gets overheated (loading pages) so I have to slow down just for that, and god forbid I try to keep on a hitfinder or PC while I’m doing work; the computer has a complete temper tantrum and won’t let me work. I’ve learned to work around these limitations but how nice it would be not to have them.

I'm on a slightly newer mac than you are, with a similar setup of using a TV for my display. One word of advice having dealt with similar frustrations, is to install a fan control application, such as SMC Fan Control. I run SMC on my Mac and it allows me to adjust when the fans will run and at what rpm they run. OSX does a decent job, but it can't predict what you'll be doing on the computer as well as you may be able to.

I keep my default fan speed about 1000rpm higher than OSX usually runs the fans, and I occasionally switch to my High speed preset, with the fans just below max RPM. This helps me keep the temps in my mac low enough that I never run into temp based glitches, etc, any longer. Also, it never hurts to tear it apart and give things a good through cleaning, or at the very least, vacuum out the vents that are accessible.

ive got a monitor hookd up to a laptop with a dad screen. a tv hooked to a chromebook that has a cracked screen. and this laptop is broken in two so i have the screen leaning against some books

Sounds like you could use a little duct tape

 

[JenniLeigh]

Need to make more turking $$$ to buy a new monitor (and/or faster and not dying computer...) but would make more turking $$$ with those items.
Balls.

 

[Shawnbks9090]

just a note. i got chromebooks on ebay for 43 bucks..yea they were missing some keys n one has a white dot on the screen