I love just reading the recipe article titles. Does it seem to you, too, that a whole bunch of further CS quals is going to be given to Top Tierers during the course of this project? I'm noticing that happening.
I was about to post and ask if anyone else kept getting new quals. In the past few days, I've gotten Title Creation, Content Grading, and E-Commerce Writing. I also received Article Highlight Writer in the beginning of November. With the exception of Content Grading, I don't really know what they're for. These forums sometimes make me feel a bit silly, actually. I only started on mturk in September and didn't really get into it. I took the Top Tier Writing Qualification Test on a whim, got accepted, and didn't know until afterward how desirable the qual was. So I'm still kind of learning all the CS stuff.
I've gotten a bunch of those too. I've been turking for a year, but until I got this, it was chump change. Now I'm almost exclusively writing. I can spend an hour on surveys and make maybe $3-4, or I can make $20!
Yep, I've already gotten a bunch more lower paying quals. I got recipes, but for the life of me, can't figure out how to do them without plagiarizing some other site. I know there is a rule about recipes that if you change/add/subtract one ingredient, it isn't plagiarism, but I'm scared to try them.
I've only been with MTurk for a month, and I got all the same three quals from Crowdsource. E-commerce is the recipes. I think they want a lot of people writing those for the holidays and superbowl.
OK - just did a job that used the word co-worker about a hundred times. Got a comment back from a "fellow worker" saying it should be coworker and not co-worker. They paid me, but that's not correct, is it?!
AP Stylebook says "co-worker." Since it isn't an exception in the CS style guide, you are right. Just send a message letting them know. I've had multiple issues with numbers and numerals because the editors didn't understand the AP style.
Hey guys I just got the E-commerece qualification and I did about 20-25 of the recipe articles yesterday. Does anyone know how long it takes for them to get approved?
Looks like there's a backlog on the recipe articles. I just got an email about a bonus (kind of want to say a bounty) for every 10 graded recipe articles. Right now it looks like there are ~325 HITs for grading recipe articles and only 51 people with the Content Grading qual.
I have the qual. I have gotten dinged a couple times because I forgot all about AP style. At least they got rid of that "to be" rule. I'm thankful that CrowdSource has posted more jobs, because my other online work situation has slowed down considerably. Hopefully things will pick up after the holidays. It's true that the pay is on the low side, but if you write fast, you can definitely make a part-time income. I wonder how long the work will last. To give some perspective on pay, I write for a small magazine, and a 750-word article pays $100 - and that is on the low end (I used to make around $500). Ah, the world of trying to pay one's bills with writing work...
It seems like anything I submit has some kind of an issue even after triple checking my work. Makes me nervous to submit more than a few at a time since I'm not sure what they'll catch if I'm making the same mistake in each of them. Then there's the wait of a few days as they slowly accept them. Definitely nerve wracking.
The simplest way to change future to present tense is to remove the word "will". For example, change 'aspirin will produce an effect...' to 'aspirin produces an effect...' or 'the weatherman says it will rain...' to 'the weatherman says to expect rain...'
I've been doing some Call Outs and I noticed something. For those of you who do the Do's and Don'ts articles, how do you structure your Don't section? Do you write it as if the "don't" is part of the sentence or not? For example, if your point is "don't over cook your chicken", do you write "Overcook your chicken" or do you write "Avoid overcooking your chicken". I do the former, but in a call out article, I saw that the author used the latter structure.
Crayonshaver, you're correct (I believe). I think the word Do or Don't precedes the writer's statement (followed by a colon). I've seen the same mistake a few times (especially when it's a kind of double negative like your example). Sometimes it looks like the writer is giving horrible advice, like "Forget to pick up your child from daycare" -- until you read the Don't preceding it.
in case that wasn't clear, I meant: Correct -- Don't: Mow your grass right after a rain Incorrect -- Don't: Never mow your grass right after a rain
I have been having some delays. More like three or four days though. How is everyone liking doing the top-tier HITs? I just got it the other day, but I've only written two articles to save myself from disqualification if I dinged them up a little. I'm already thinking I need a break from this though. I've been editing lots of the top-tier stuff for awhile, and the quality of some articles must be getting to me...