07/02 - Savory Sunday!

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They'd have to hire those engineers they should have hired the week they increased the fees but are still advertising for.
They've been advertising those same 5-10 jobs for a decade. My theory is there's some business reason why they have to show open jobs but they're not actually hiring live humans.
 
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The robots replacing the workers in Seattle agree with you.
Let revisionism do its work. There never were any human workers in Seattle.
 
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They've been advertising those same 5-10 jobs for a decade. My theory is there's some business reason why they have to show open jobs but they're not actually hiring live humans.
I don't know if it's related, but a lot of the academic libraries I worked in or was around did the same thing. Leaving jobs open probably filled out their yearly budget but allowed them to use the money for other things.
 

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Let revisionism do its work. There never were any human workers in Seattle.
You have tangible proof there are any human workers on Mturk itself?
 
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You have tangible proof there are any human workers on Mturk itself?
Yes. A christmas card with a signature that wasn't printed.

Edit: well maybe. I don't keep useless things. so probably not.
 
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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: 26

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 36
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $0.40
- HIT reward earned: $25.48
- Total Amount earned this week: $25.88

laptop crashed. needed to get a new one. so, not much work done.
 

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Yes. A christmas card with a signature that wasn't printed.

Edit: well maybe. I don't keep useless things. so probably not.
Edit 2: Unless you mean human turkers. In which case the answer is a definite yes... I've taken pictures of them.
 
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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.
 

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The SuperCareers are still floating around.
 

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Title: A survey about how people choose a hospital | PANDA
Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester
Requester: Jennifer Sun [A32HEMHACU0B7C] (Contact)
TO 1: [Pay: 4.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 4] [ToS: 0]
TO 2:
[Rate: $27.00/hr] [Pen: 1.00 days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: 100% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0]
Description:
Help us understand how people choose a hospital
Time: 45 minutes
HITs Available: 1
Reward: $1.80
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 98;
HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.10
 
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