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Has 'Amazon Requester Inc.' ever paid anyone here a bonus for doing these? And if so about how many did you do?

Personally, I never get rejected on these, but I have not seen a bonus from them either. They are great to keep the capchas reset, and I can express my views in the querstions >

 

I have attempted some of their hits, but never got any bonus. But I have heard that some turkers have got a bonus on their hits.

 

I did some 100-200 and got $0.50 bonus. Not worth the trouble at all.

 

That was one of the first hits I ever tried ... and I got a rejection that my question was "pornographic!" The #*!&* subject had to do with beauty salons and I have no idea why they deemed my response "pornographic." I haven't tried one since and their rejection almost stopped me from doing any more of their hits.

 

They changed their payments on these questions - before it was 3 cents a question and now they are going the bonus route. I got an $8 bonus for questions I asked in December, but haven't seen anything since. They are good to build up your approval rating.

 

They have automatic checks on it. Another beauty is when you have to write a question about 'mad mad mad mad world', and get it rejected because of repeating a keyword.

 

I think I'm finally beginning to understand Amazon's strategy here. They deliberately set themselves up as the most frustrating requester to work for, because that makes all the other requesters on MTurk look great in comparison. Then when we have a bad experience with someone else, we'll say to ourselves, "At least it wasn't half as bad as working for Amazon," and thus comforted, keep on turking. :rolleyes:

 

That explanation works fine for me. In fact, it makes perfect sense

 

Ah but how many questions did you ask in December to receive that "windfall"?

 

Personally, I think all those jack requestors offering bonuses for continued service are full of it. Not one person that I've heard of has received a bonus from Todd D. or any of those ask questions etc. type of bonus incentive hits. It's a ruse to get us to keep working for nothing in the hopes of reaping some grand reward at the end of it when no reward exists. It's the cyber sweatshop version of "Bait and switch"