Okay, let me break this down for some of you guys. First, I have 2 codes. Second, they are "expired". Which means the damn things are valid codes and it took me a while to get them, including setting up a hit on MTurk as a requester. I received about 30 codes, 28 of them were bs and people trying to just scam me. Those 28 will be rejected. The other 2 codes I will approve, since they give me a no longer working message when entered.
So to sum it up, this experiment is paying the majority of people 0. Yes, 0 dollars per hour. I went a bit far than your average person to obtain codes so I am actually in the negative now.
So if this experiment is on how people share, the community, blah blah it's one that apparently is designed to pay only a select few. How far will people go for a working code that don't have one? I'm not doing anything else. Done my part, down 10 dollars, and still unable to work on the hits.
So there you have it. You can keep chasing it if you want, but this experiment is nasty. I'm kinda pissed right now. Not that I am down 10 bucks, but rather I have two codes that should work, but hey I guess part of the experiment is some codes cannot be shared. Weird.
Now if you don't mind, I'll go back to working regular MTurk and stop chasing the bs I've been doing the last hour when I could have made a few more dollars. Kudos to the two guys that actually did share your codes with me though. There's something revealing there. If these guys were banging out at 50 dollars an hour with these amazing hits with their code, then why the hell would they take the time to let their scraper run and see mine, take it, submit it and decrease their earnings? My theory is because their codes aren't working like they should. Don't get me wrong, those things give a different message, and doesn't say they are invalid so I believe strongly they are the right codes. I would give my code away for 5 bucks if I knew it was bs too.
Also the tasks are going down and up, down and up. There's no way in hell this requester is paying the amount that is shown. At the rate it's going down/up, if they are getting completed, he's dropped over 3k on this batch. Sorry, that seems ridiculous, with the fees too. Ain't no study I've come across recently would pay that for a batch that by the preview picture would pay 15 cents for 5 seconds of work in the 10s of thousands. Bs study if you ask me.