Can't Find Flowering HITs? 3/8 SlowPoke Sunday!

The hit can be previewed by non masters its https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3095904802CGV0KQ32L1KCB8NQBACM and yeah not exactly a bad thing to cut your teeth on to learn what everything does. I personally probably wouldn't script something like this especially given you can just open the article with nifty split but to each their own doesn't really hurt anything scripting it.

Might script entering choices but don't know if I'd even do that.

 

Thanks! I used to just skip over when people posted them, but now I'm actually reading them and trying to figure out what they're doing.

 

I can't find the post anymore (or maybe op edited it) but someone said "...open HIT in 10 tabs..." and that's when i made my op. I shouldn't have said anything and let the rabbit road continue lol

 

I view it as a heuristic process.

 

I myself have never seen a hit complicated enough to warrant all that. And if one does, it had better be paying through the effin roof.

 

If you're first starting out, it makes sense to make a simple script and add improvements as you get annoyed with the bottlenecks. There's a saying called keep it simple stupid that people ignore to their detriment. In poker it's called the fancy-play syndrome

 

I always wonder if the time it takes to write a script actually makes up for the time spent not doing the hits. Obviously with very common batches (rnr comes to mind) it's worthwhile, but I wonder about the batches that only post once in a blue moon.

I don't know. I'm just an outsider looking in.

 

I just want to thank you for introducing me to Bartle doo. It's hilarious, I love it and I am going to incorporate it into my daily speech. Bartle doo!

 

Approvals and
payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 1,042
- Number
of HITs rejected: 1
- Bonus reward earned: $54.84
- HIT reward earned:
$100.27
- Total Amount earned this week: $155.11

I think that's my highest week yet...

 

The solution is to not write scripts, but record them

 

I can't see using scripts for Tal Brown worth it...it's pretty fast already...I can't see myself getting faster with scripts and tabbed windows and all this complication. I never use scripts so I don't know I would like to start but it seems like it's only worth it on HITs that are way more inefficient manually than with script help. I'm happy with the batch and I rarely do batches it's a nice Sunday surprise.

 

Considering most batches now "fly off the shelves" within about 5 minutes or less (unless they're massive, like Groceries or something), I just don't see the point.

 

I usually get something scripted in a minute or two, and a lot of times you can just make a minor change to an existing script. Anything after that and it can be a waste if the batch is moving fast.

I'll script anything it it's worth the time... my ahk folder had over 100 scripts in it before I cleaned it out a few weeks ago

 

Title: Survey of online news use Requester: Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch [ADI9GRDLIP8U9] (TO) TO Ratings: TO down. Description: Complete a questionnaire about your online news consumption Time: 60 minutes Reward: $1.50 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95, Location is US

9 minutes (while multi-tasking)

 

Even writing scripts can be fine though. You always just have to do a cost benefit analyze. You consider the 3 factors how long does it take to write the script, how long will the batch last this one will almost have to be just a rough estimate, and how much time do you save per hit. I mean even in the extreme example of a hit that disappears in 5 minutes if the amount of time saved is long enough and the amount of time to write short enough it can be still worth it.

Heck say hit takes 10 seconds and you can shave off 3 seconds with a really simple script that takes you minute to write. Yeah you only have 4 minutes at the batch now but you are doing the hits in 7 seconds instead of 10 so instead of getting 30 hits you can now get 34. Even only saving 2 seconds you break even. Obviously the longer the batch will last will lend themselves to writing more complex scripts.

 

It's worth the time if you spend a few seconds recording and looping a macro. I used to copy/paste ahk scripts for new hits but I realized (when I still used ahk for turking) that the scripts I was creating out of repetition were all the damn same, so I started making catch-all scripts that worked for all requesters for certain hit types (before finally phasing out ahk for turk completely for its inefficiencies)

 

Yeah I used to be really nit picky like you and mull over all the minute details like seconds/minutes saved. I 've since kissed and don't even bother to write things when I'm turking anymore, because it's not an efficient use of time unless you're not turking because there are just better solutions out there

 

I think you live across the freaking country, but otherwise I'd totally con you into letting me sit and watch you turk for a day. I'd even pay for pizza.

 

Am now imagining a Big Bang Theory episode on Turking mostly focused on Sheldon.

 

Title: Take a color experiment about maps and color combination preference Requester: Karen Schloss [A3P4RBQXQMXJLR] (TO) TO Ratings: ☢☢☢☢☢ 5.00 Communicativity ☢☢☢☢☢ 4.43 Generosity ☢☢☢☢☢ 5.00 Fairness ☢☢☢☢☢ 5.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 23 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: This roughly 35-45 minute HIT asks you to look at a series of maps and respond how much you like color combinations Time: 2 hours Hits Available: 15 Reward: $4.50 Qualifications: Masters has been granted, Total approved HITs is not less than 1000, HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95, Location is US