In need of advice - Mass Reject.

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  1. Lehmanizer

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    I was working the, Walter Reinhart - Find and Enter RSS feeds for a list of news sites. I didn't like coping the feed links so in preview mode I opened every link and used ctrl+f to search for RSS. If I found any I skipped the HIT, if no "RSS" was found I accept the HIT and entered 0. About half way through I realized this probably looks real bad on his end but I was on a roll. He rejected about 350 HITs saying I enter all 0's even though half of them had RSS feeds. I messaged him but is there anything else I can do?
     
  2. naturegirl

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    Yes. You can realize that even though individual HITs rarely pay much, requesters still expect you to be willing to do a good job with them. In other words...

    ...if you realize it's gonna look bad to the requester, STOP right then. Don't decide that your being "on a roll" means that they will want any more of the work you're doing. Maybe if you had stopped then and written him a note of explanation/apology proactively, he would have been more understanding.

    Writing afterward probably made it look like you mainly were sorry that he noticed what you were doing.

    Your rejection rate is important to getting future HITs. Hopefully you have it in you to overcome this!
     
  3. clogan98

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    Wait, are you saying you were just entering 0's and not actually doing the work? And you're upset because you were mass rejected? Am I missing something? I hope so:confused:
     
  4. ds_36

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    I understand how you just wanted to do the easiest HITs, I've done similar things with other batches before and had no problems.

    This is what I don't get. Was 0 an accurate answer for everything you submitted or was there some sort of wiggle room. If half of what you submitted did in fact have RSS feeds it seems that you didn't determine that the website didn't have an RSS feed accurately.
     
  5. mamakayy

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    Congrats on doing 350 HITs without reading the instructions!

    They asked you to also utilize google, because many of them have rss feeds even though they aren't listed on the main site.

    Many of the ones I found were from google, not from the page linked.
     
  6. Lehmanizer

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    Wow, a fiesty bunch. Yes putting 0 was the right answer and I have messaged him explaining what I was doing. He said he had the work redone and out of 350 I had about 100 wrong, although I read and followed his instructions. So 250 of them are right but since he rejected them all and had the work redone he can't change anything. He sent an e-mail to Amazon on my behalf; so we'll see what happens.

    Should I send an e-mail to Amazon too. I would like the rejections fixed more than anything but I'm also not real happy about the $15 of correct HITs he rejected.
     
  7. rstokes

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    Over one third of your hits were wrong. That is a 65% approval rate for this requester. If that was your approval rate on Amazon you'd be suspended. Face it if the requester had to have this garbage, that you call correct, reworked it was not worth the trouble to go through and reject one at a time. Suck it up and do better work.
     
  8. Lehmanizer

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    Jeez the thread asks for advice not attacks. My approval rate was 99.8% with over 2500 approvals. My HITs for this requestor were 70% correct which I agree is terrible but the 30% that were wrong were equally my fault and his, which he agrees to.

    Anyone with any helpful insight or can someone just delete the thread since this is going nowhere
     
  9. rstokes

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    I did give you advice.... do better work.
     
  10. HaikuGemini

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    I don't think that there is anything else you can do. The only person who can reverse a rejection is the requester. Work on getting your approval rates back up and then be more careful in the future. Part of the mturk agreement is that amazon does not get involved between you and the requester so I don't think that emailing amazon will do any good. Unfortunately, this doesn't offer us much protection but that's the drill and we know it.
     
  11. Hi. It's me

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    No, don't contact Amazon. Since the requester said he would contact them, just wait to see what is said.

    I will tell you from experience that even though a requester CAN reverse a rejection, a lot of them can't figure out how/are unable to for whatever reason.
    Support for Turk REQUESTERS is great and very fast - not like the support for the workers, so don't do anything until you've heard back from him.
     
  12. Lehmanizer

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    Thanks for the insight. I'm trying to be patient but it's difficult.
     
  13. Hi. It's me

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    I know! I recently got completely suspended from Mturk (by mistake) for 10 days and the waiting drove me crazy.
     

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