07/02 - Savory Sunday!

[Jaded]

You're alive

Yes! Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are.

 

[C to the J]

good morning

You win the race last night?

 

[Jharkan]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,
The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Jul 01, 2017.
Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 201
Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 169
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $8.10
- HIT reward earned: $126.96
- Total Amount earned this week: $135.06

 

[mboone73]

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Jul 01, 2017.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 481

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 481
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $2.45
- HIT reward earned: $66.99
- Total Amount earned this week: $69.44

I didn't put much effort into the last three days.

 

[Jaded]

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 736

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 738
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $9.30
- HIT reward earned: $65.59
- Total Amount earned this week: $74.89

whoops

 

[catnapped]

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 736

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 738
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $9.30
- HIT reward earned: $65.59
- Total Amount earned this week: $74.89

whoops

Still time to delete it before @TQueen sees it. Just say you were abducted.

 

[TQueen]

Still time to delete it before @TQueen sees it. Just say you were abducted.

I made $12 this week. I think she's safe.

 

[Turkiphee]

There is no debate about hard blocks and soft blocks... unless you want a flat earth debate. They don't exist.. those are terms turkers made up. There is only 1 way to block through both the web client and then api.

A "re-retakes" block is entirely deserved if you've taken the survey they don't want you to retake. That is an appropriate officially documented use of the system.

A retake block does not exist. That is a called a qualification. If a requester blocks you, they aren't just preventing you from retaking a particular survey, they are blocking you from all their HITs. Savvy requesters use qualifications to prevent one from retaking a particular survey.

Here is an archive of people getting warning messages from Amazon after what you call an appropriate use of the system: http://turkernation.com/archive/index.php/t-23339.html

One should not be getting an account suspension warning after correctly completing a survey. That's not appropriate.

 

[It's Gamera!]

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 6,329
- Number of HITs rejected: 2
- Bonus reward earned: $1.60
- HIT reward earned: $632.92
- Total Amount earned this week: $634.52

 

[electrolyte]

A retake block does not exist. That is a called a qualification. If a requester blocks you, they aren't just preventing you from retaking a particular survey, they are blocking you from all their HITs. Savvy requesters use qualifications to prevent one from retaking a particular survey.

Here is an archive of people getting warning messages from Amazon after what you call an appropriate use of the system: http://turkernation.com/archive/index.php/t-23339.html

One should not be getting an account suspension warning after correctly completing a survey. That's not appropriate.

MTurk themselves recently posted an update on their blog saying not to block workers to prevent retakes:

"A word of caution: MTurk has a built-in capability for a Requester to “block” a Worker from working on that Requester’s tasks in the future. Requesters use this capability to identify and exclude Workers that have consistently produced poor quality results on their tasks. We strongly urge Requesters to avoid using this feature to exclude Workers for convenience. Doing so could negatively impact the Worker’s reputation in MTurk."

https://blog.mturk.com/tutorial-bes...-surveys-or-longitudinal-studies-4d0732a7319b

 

[Mr. Krabs]

TurkPrime is down for me right now.

Edit: It's back

 

[C to the J]

MTurk themselves recently posted an update on their blog saying not to block workers to prevent retakes:

"A word of caution: MTurk has a built-in capability for a Requester to “block” a Worker from working on that Requester’s tasks in the future. Requesters use this capability to identify and exclude Workers that have consistently produced poor quality results on their tasks. We strongly urge Requesters to avoid using this feature to exclude Workers for convenience. Doing so could negatively impact the Worker’s reputation in MTurk."

https://blog.mturk.com/tutorial-bes...-surveys-or-longitudinal-studies-4d0732a7319b

Oh Amazon.
Needs to be made more clear on the requester site.
I can't imagine that many requesters reading this blog.

 

[catnapped]

MTurk themselves recently posted an update on their blog saying not to block workers to prevent retakes:

"A word of caution: MTurk has a built-in capability for a Requester to “block” a Worker from working on that Requester’s tasks in the future. Requesters use this capability to identify and exclude Workers that have consistently produced poor quality results on their tasks. We strongly urge Requesters to avoid using this feature to exclude Workers for convenience. Doing so could negatively impact the Worker’s reputation in MTurk."

https://blog.mturk.com/tutorial-bes...-surveys-or-longitudinal-studies-4d0732a7319b

"Worker customer"

 

[Kerek]

"Worker customer"

It differentiates you from a requester customer.

 

[Blue]

MTurk themselves recently posted an update on their blog saying not to block workers to prevent retakes:

"A word of caution: MTurk has a built-in capability for a Requester to “block” a Worker from working on that Requester’s tasks in the future. Requesters use this capability to identify and exclude Workers that have consistently produced poor quality results on their tasks. We strongly urge Requesters to avoid using this feature to exclude Workers for convenience. Doing so could negatively impact the Worker’s reputation in MTurk."

https://blog.mturk.com/tutorial-bes...-surveys-or-longitudinal-studies-4d0732a7319b

Meaning retake blocks have recently become a non-officially sanctioned practice... probably in favor of the *better* method turkers have been pushing to make standard practice for years.

That does not in any way change the fact that it has been the standard official documented practice.

 

[electrolyte]

Oh Amazon.
Needs to be made more clear on the requester site.
I can't imagine that many requesters reading this blog.

Exactly. If a requester clicks the "block" button, this message should pop up for them with this information and two buttons, one that says "yes, still block this person because they've consistently submitted poor quality work" and one that says, "no, please show me information on how to use qualifications to prevent retakes instead".

 

[Kerek]

Exactly. If a requester clicks the "block" button, this message should pop up for them with this information and two buttons, one that says "yes, still block this person because they've consistently submitted poor quality work" and one that says, "no, please show me information on how to use qualifications to prevent retakes instead".

They'd have to hire those engineers they should have hired the week they increased the fees but are still advertising for.

 

[Blue]

They'd have to hire those engineers they should have hired the week they increased the fees but are still advertising for.

Hey man... this is america. Raising their fees instantly raised the quality of the service.

 

[Kerek]

Hey man... this is america. Raising their fees instantly raised the quality of the service.

The robots replacing the workers in Seattle agree with you.

 

[bxpretzel]

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Jul 01, 2017.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 3,018

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 2,897
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $6.49
- HIT reward earned: $328.19
- Total Amount earned this week: $334.68