I've always assumed they mostly are done by (1) people in India, (2) the very new (I checked my database, I did exactly one Brelig during my first week) and (3) the desperate (and not too smart, even if you are desperate, you can do better. 411Richmond, say.) Anyhow, I was curious, wikipedia says minimum wage in India "from 150 rupees ($2.40) per day in Bihar to 361 rupees ($5.80) per day in Delhi." I guess that is doable with Brelig, even if you are more-or-less copying numbers and letters by rote because your English is weak, and get a bunch rejected. Of course that assumes you have computer and internet access... Put that way, I suppose what he pays doesn't seem quite so abusive. Or rather no more abusive than other companies that outsource to India, etc. It is just that we actually get to see what Brelig pays every day -- on the front page. And dear god, I need a batch or something. I actually just spent time looking up the minimum wage in India.
WTF? strangest hit of the night...maybe the year Title: Feed a hungry - poor kid Requester: Tejinderpal Pannu [A242UYB4TPMJBE] (TO) TO Ratings: No TO (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: We want you to feed a poor kid and take the picture of the kid eating the food you buy for him/her Time: 2 days Hits Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95; Total approved HITs is greater than 50 We want you to feed a poor and a hungry kid from slums who cannot afford to eat. Take a photo of the kid eating your food and send it to us at ucla_jatt@yahoo.com
Be careful what you wish for... just caught that $5 "Reading task". Really don't want to, but it'd double my pathetic earnings for the day.
I did Brelig and Copytext when I started turking in September because I thought that's all there was. Then I found Crowdsurf which was better but still not the best. This thread really helped me start making money when I found out about Hitscraper and Turkmaster. And I only stumbled on this thread because I was trying to figure out how to filter out requesters. I still don't understand why that's not an option on the site considering AMT has been in existence for quite a few years. It's like they're pushing people towards Brelig and other nonsense.
this forum had been the best thing about turking. ive met so many awesome people who taught me everything i know. panda, AA, Scripting, Incognito, turkmaster, Hit scraper, etc if it wasn't for the people here on Mturk forum, i would be flipping burgers.
took the day off...glanced at the forum and put it on c4c. Moved the mouse to wake my monitors up just to check and there it was smh. I think I'll go in anyway because the bonus.
Have you been doing full text review? I can't figure out how to make those worth it. I don't know if it's me or what.
I've been wondering about this myself, but my understanding is that Mturk hasn't let foreign workers into the fold for a while. If that's true, the Indian workers who are hangin' in there probably have more stamina than anyone I've ever known. Is there any demograghic statistic for masters?
I go back and forth between FTR and review, edit, and score. Some weeks I'm just not feeling it in one or the other. Last week when they rolled out the team bonus, I went full throttle on FTR and Speaker ID. I did 9 hours of MM. It was pretty crazy. Got a $30 bonus, though!
Keep getting an Inquisit error after the second set of questions. Not sure if I'm being screened out of Inquisit is being dumb.