Mturk to undergo maintenance

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  1. pranathimohan

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    Please make a note

    The Mechanical Turk Worker website will be unavailable starting November 4, 2012 at 12:30am Pacific Standard Time for system maintenance. You will not be able to accept or submit HITs during this time. If you have any HITs that may expire during this time, please complete the HITs before 12:30am PST. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have cause.
     
  2. Hi. It's me

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    The fact that they made a typo (cause/caused) at the end...
    no excuses for a company this prominent.
     
  3. sajeev raghunathan

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    so when will the website be back?
     
  4. Kiruthika

    Kiruthika New Member

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    Are they gonna shut the website or its just temporary?
     
  5. sajeev raghunathan

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    How one knows it is temporary ???

    They have not said when they will be back...
     
  7. sajeev raghunathan

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    it is such a big company. So it cant shut down all of a sudden.
     
  8. vijay1975

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    Shocks happen all the time in this world... Let us just hope this does not happen here at least...
     
  9. Kiruthika

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    Any idea when they'll be back?
     
  10. pranathimohan

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    Oh....
    not sure
     
  11. sajeev raghunathan

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    dunno... hope it will come back soon
     
  12. vijay1975

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    Any precedents of such a maintenance type shut down like this one ??? Experienced turkers can enlighten people on this...
     
  13. sajeev raghunathan

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    I didn't experience such things
     
  14. Zenoff64

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    Shutting down forever to do system maintenance, ya know, forever. Its never coming back.

    One of the system admins probably typed it, and i'm willing to be he's human. People make mistakes, its not like the company is a massive interlinked conscience incapable of making errors.

    I've never experienced one on this site, but it does happen from time to time. I'd expect it to be back within a few hours at best.

    You need to remember, Amazon makes money from every hit that gets completed. Its not financially prudent to go down for longer than absolutely needed.

    Also, everybody panic.
     
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  15. Gopal

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    Please anyone tell When they'll be back?
    But Nov 6 There is election... May be for ths..
     
  16. pranathimohan

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    not for that.... Hope will be back in couple of hours....
     
  17. vijay1975

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    In that case, did such a thing happen during last US elections as well ???
     
  18. sajeev raghunathan

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    But I still have a doubt. Why do they have to shut down their website for maintenance?.. Are their servers too slow?
     
  19. pranathimohan

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    Any US turkers please recollect....
     
  20. Banu

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    Hi,

    Did anybody contacted Mturk Customer care regarding this issue?
    i have written to them but still no reply from them?
     

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