We need to keep in mind he may not know the difference between a hard block and a soft block, or the fact he can put a limit on the number of hits available to requesters without doing a block.. he is a new requester after all.. Lets give him some time and see if this is not resolved and go from there..
He is NOT a new requester google his name and you will find posts on *********** where he was posting work back in september. edit: I wrote cloud me baby I dont know why it is asterisks.
I made sure to be polite in my message to him explaining the difference between soft and hard blocks, hopefully he sees it.
i have done nearly 70 of his hits. He rejected only 1 and nearly 20 pending. But i got hard block mail today with an account warning. I have completed nearly 40k hits with an acceptance rate of 99.4. I think mturk soon gonna suspend ma account.
your account will not be suspended from just one hard block, you need 3. They can suspend you for other reasons but if your approval rate is that high and you have lots of approved hits then you will be fine.
September was not that long ago and he may not have posted alot of projects in general.. All I am saying is we need to be patient and see what happens before going into 1000% attack mode. He may not have had a chance to respond yet to anyone or clear up the situation. If he is a bad requester then his name will get blasted everywhere and reputation will be ruined.
Heres how he looks.... got a very cunning look, ready to mass-reject and mass-block all of us...Stay Away!!
mine are approving as well, after I was blocked.... still have quite a few pending... will keep posted.
The thing is that, from my experience and from observing others, he DOESN'T respond to anyone. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt since he does seem to approve *most* HITs so perhaps he really is legitimate but ran into a bug/is inexperienced, but you have to admit that he is setting himself up to all this criticism.
If he has a full time job he may not have had a chance to respond yet.. Not all of the requesters can answer e-mails asap.. since people are having theirs approve I would say give it a day to see if he responds. I guarentee he is overloaded with e-mails about rejections and blocks and it will take time to go through, plus people still have pending hits. Unfortunately it is just a waiting game.. I am sure I will fall into the same pattern of rejections as everyone else, but I am going to wait and see what happens
I know have 6 approvals, and 9 pending. It may be wishful thinking, but I seem to have managed to come out f this with my approval rating unscathed.
Wonder if he'll hard block even the people he approves this time too. Will be interesting to see. I forgot about the ones from Oct 1. He still hasn't started approving/rejecting those yet for me. I wish I had seen his photo before I started working on his tasks. Creeper for sure.
Approved all mine from 10/1 35 total. Approved 37 out of 38 on 10/3. One reject and one hard block. Approved 72 out of 73. Resulting in hard block after asking why, for one reject with no response but hard block.
I didn't even know there were any posted on 10/3.. I wonder if it is only those people that are being blocked.. Mine are still being approved from 10/1
All of mine, 25, from 10/1 are approved, the ones on 10/3 are 36 approved and 8 rejections, plus the hard block.