08/30 - Farcical Friday!

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[VIDHYA LAKSHMI]

 

[mew]

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[Skittles]

 

[jan]

from a reddit post (a response from amazon):
Hello,

Mechanical Turk uses Amazon Pay for verification purposes, but it’s a separate Amazon service.

For help with account creation, verification, review, or suspension, contact Amazon Pay directly at the following email address:

payments-verification@amazon.com

Best regards,
Amazon Web Services

 

[rsmath]

NATIONAL BEACH DAY
NATIONAL GRIEF AWARENESS DAY
NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY
NATIONAL COLLEGE COLORS DAY

 

[Mikey Chlanda]

good morning all!

 

[Desertdarlene]

Good morning! I still can't accept a HIT due to the Amazon payments thing. It appears to affect mostly workers who signed up a decade or so ago. On Twitter, someone was told they had to make a new account. That would mean I would lose my quals and reputation.

 

[Blakkat]

Screener Q's at start

Title: Psychology Survey(~ 6 minutes) | PANDA
Requester: Mengran Xu [A3P2QVS4QIEZPJ]
TurkerView: [ $10.85 / hour ]
Description: In this survey, you will respond to evaluate the quality of some written work.
Duration: 20 Min
Available: 17
Reward: $0.70
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs LessThanOrEqualTo 500000
• islfvr8491 GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 92
• Exc: [14455469-451219] DoesNotExist
• Location In US

[3S1POB7GV9Z0SXTDGB5KTZ05OKSUQ3]​

 

[cassius]

you know you're bored when you ask AI to write a soap script for you just to prove it's what has been writing the TV scripts instead of human writers. OMG

 

[HelloHello]

from a reddit post (a response from amazon):
Hello,

Mechanical Turk uses Amazon Pay for verification purposes, but it’s a separate Amazon service.

For help with account creation, verification, review, or suspension, contact Amazon Pay directly at the following email address:

payments-verification@amazon.com

Best regards,
Amazon Web Services

Is it possible that the EU form/info we were asked to complete some time back is somehow involved in this mess?

 

[HelloHello]

 

[HelloHello]

Title: Follow up survey on last week's suvey - exclusive for your! (~ 10 minutes) • Accept Requester: Christian Tröster [A3DUTV8ON94ZGX] Contact TV: [Hrly=$22.54][Pay=Generous][Approval=~24 hrs][Comm=Unrated][Rej=0][Blk=0] TO: [Pay=4.14][Fast=4.98][Comm=5.00][Fair=4.91][Reviews=79][ToS=1] Reward: $2.00 Duration: 00:45:00 Available: 32 Description: This survey aims to understand people's behaviors, thoughts, and feelings at the workplace. You'll complete a short survey. Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [1856511082-451229] DoesNotExist ; Inc: [451390-451229] Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US

 

[HelloHello]

Title: Please read the AI description and complete the survey. (about 20 ~ 30 minutes) • Accept Requester: oks19 [AOIFEV9D78MV1] Contact TV: [Hrly=$19.30][Pay=Good][Approval=~24 hrs][Comm=Unrated][Rej=0][Blk=0] TO: [Pay=0.00][Fast=0.00][Comm=0.00][Fair=0.00][Reviews=1][ToS=0] Reward: $2.50 Duration: 03:00:00 Available: 1 Description: You will be randomly assigned tasks for one of the following scenarios: evaluating a film, expressing a position on a controversial topic, or predicting the defendant's risk of recidivism. Qualifications: Low_Quality_Workers DoesNotExist ; Location In AU, CA, GB, IE, NZ, US; Done_pre_pilot DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 97; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 50; Adult Content Qualification EqualTo 1

 

[Blakkat]

Title: 4-5 min survey on eco-related information and everyday purchases(~ 5 minutes) | PANDA
Requester: Kar Research [A1PRQKGSAMFAEM]
TurkerView: [ $20.39 / hour ]
Description: Survey on perspectives on information related to current environmental topics and common grocery items.
Duration: 40 Min
Available: 9
Reward: $0.80
Qualifications:

• Total approved HITs LessThanOrEqualTo 500000
• Exc: [451788-451199] DoesNotExist
• SurveyGroup [8342] DoesNotExist
• islfvr8491 GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100
• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97
• Location In US

[31TSCA2OWQC6MFDGM2UQW6PZJMRCL0]​

 

[jan]

Is it possible that the EU form/info we were asked to complete some time back is somehow involved in this mess?

some people who have been suspended, report filling it out. Others did not.

Also, interesting that this is coming in waves (not just one major glitch that takes everyone out in an hour/day).

It reminds me, though - of the famous way Richard Feynman talked about what physicists do. They watch a swimming pool and see the waves from things jumping into the pool. they can't see what jumps, just the wave. And then how one wave reacts to another.

That's us. Trying to make sense of amazon......all we can see is what they have done, and the havoc in the wake

 

[Willie_Cat]

Here is just a thought. When we first received notice about the EU form I filled it out. Then a few months later there was notice of the EU form and I went to the site and completed a second EU form. They seemed very duplicative, but maybe not.

 

[Blakkat]

Here is just a thought. When we first received notice about the EU form I filled it out. Then a few months later there was notice of the EU form and I went to the site and completed a second EU form. They seemed very duplicative, but maybe not.

For what it's worth, I did the same.

 

[Skittles]

 

[mypaperheart]

Here is just a thought. When we first received notice about the EU form I filled it out. Then a few months later there was notice of the EU form and I went to the site and completed a second EU form. They seemed very duplicative, but maybe not.

I never received any notice about the form and I have searched and searched my email to see if I ever did and nothing.