Mturkers Union Power to Destroy Dolores Labs Slavery .

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  1. MorockanMe

    MorockanMe New Member

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    It is time for Mturkers to either get paid fairly for their hits or destroy Dolores labs by stop making their hits , I stopped making their hits long time ago and now can't find hits because Most there is is dolores labs ! Dolores labs aka crowd flower is a company that takes tasks from other companies and multiply it for us so they can take our compensation unfairly by changing us from workers to slaves and make work very very hard and very very long for us as Mturkers it is time to unite as mturkers and stop making hits for them forever . it is 2012 it is time for change :)
     
  2. coffeerox

    coffeerox New Member

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    I've recently found rating tasks for Dolores Labs. This same work gets me 13.50/hr at Lionbridge and Leapforce (I got let go at LF and currently awaiting test at LB) but at Dolores Labs, I average about 3.00 an hour and I even got blocked due to accuracy. It's definitely extremely low pay for high value work.
     
  3. mturkuser999

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    I stopped doing dolores labs HITs since last month. Their work is pretty challenging, and very low pay. It's just not worth it.
     
  4. cobeyug

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    I agree with you that DL hits are pure slavery, as they pay way too little for the amount of time needed for the work to be done. But, take in mind that there are many turkers from outside US who are limited to very little hits because of their location, so basically DL is the only reliable requester they can work for. Also take into account that their standard of living is very low, so they can be satisfied only with fraction of what you think is reasonable pay amount for that work. So as long as there are workers that work for that pay, they'll continue posting their cheap paying and time consuming hits. I'm from outside US as well, and 95% of my hits are from DL, simply because I'm not allowed to do any of those better paying hits which are exclusive to US residents only. If you can tell me some better requester for whom I can work, feel free to share :). The best thing about DL is that you don't have to fear from rejection.
     
  5. JustMaketheMoney

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    The one thing I can say about DL HITS is that the compensation has been getting better over the time that I have been doing HITS. Now there are a few that are *almost* worth the time. They are not in my normal rotation by any means, but if I'm bored, I'll do them just to fill the time.
     
  6. Darkginger

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    I'm only on Day 2 of using Mturk, and have already sussed the DL are not worth doing the work for. I'm MENSA qualified, and yet failed at a couple of their 1c tasks - either they or I are more stupid than I realised :)
     
  7. SupaDupa

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    I approve of this movement.

    Completely ridiculous.
     
  8. mturkuser999

    mturkuser999 Member

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    hahaha @this. Be sure not to perform too well, they don't like over-qualified workers that know more than the ones reviewing the work!!!
     
  9. Laura

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    I agree. They are pure, organized slave labor.
     
  10. fashi0n

    fashi0n New Member

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    This is free Market economy and it is non-sense to blame DL for its low paying HITs. The point is with that rates, DL is able to find workers and it is all good for DL, unless there is nobody wants to work at those rates. However, I have another request. I think we as mturkers should have an option to block requesters like requesters block workers. By that way, we can eliminate requesters and in our mturk search results, those requesters will not be shown up so we can concentrate on the ones we are really interested in. Besides that can be a feedback for requesters to see how many workers blocked them and maybe they change their policies....
     
  11. Noliah

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    Same here. Everyone should abandon them. Now, they've made it even more time-consuming to enter feedback. Forget them.
     
  12. roddma

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    I have been disqualified from many tasks because of control measures showing i am not getting enough test questions right.
     
  13. riazthemturkhelper

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    same for my case too..
     

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