Agreed... that one you reviewed was shit. I grabbed one, saw the hoops we had to jump thru and sent it straight back. I was seriously smh at the way the batch got eaten up. I mean I have pretty low standards but that shit is ridiculous.
Not referring to that particular hit, but don't underestimate the ability of scripts to turn crap hits into gold. I've eaten up entire 1,000+ hit batches by myself because I could write scripts for them to the point where they were 99% automated and 100% accurate. Might look like people with abysmally low standards are doing them, but it's not always the case.
I rarely ever script so I have no dog in this fight really. If I have to script something to make it pay $9 an hour I'd rather go do laundry. Like you said I'm not about to reward shitty requesters who pay shit wages.
I loathe to even address you, but the 'scripters' you're likely referring to have terrible skills and can barely even use AHK properly, let alone write hit-specific Greasemonkey scripts on the fly. From the scripts I've seen there are very few in this community that have actual programming skills and can use their potential to transform work in a really optimal way. Most of it is just sending tabs and spaces with AHK. When I talk about scripting a batch, I mean turning it from $3-4/hr to $25-50 or better. Making it $6-9 isn't even worth the time it takes to write the script. I rarely do anything that pays under $20/hr whether scripts are involved or not. So, when every other scripter chooses not to ham something I can make that valuable to me, it's more than likely because they couldn't figure out how to.
Can you explain this to me? What notification would you receive? Turkalert? TM that you have set for certain requesters? Unfortunately, my TM does not make a sound when I capture a survey, but it does for batch work.
'what is the current average price in euro of olead 4k tv in the market ?' = ? is this hit legit or I will get rejected?
Title: Survey; ONLY for male homosexuals Requester: Madeleine Rauch [A2G8QL7CKH1PO6] (TO) TO Ratings: ☭☭☭☭☭ 1.00 Communicativity ☭☭☭☭☭ 3.00 Generosity ☭☭☭☭☭ 3.00 Fairness ☭☭☭☭☭ 2.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 3 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Give us your opinion about several questions to decision making and memory decay. You can only take part if you are male, between 20 and 30 years old, you are studying or you have a university degree, and you are homosexual. Thank you! Time: 30 minutes Hits Available: 1 Reward: $1.50 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 90; Location is US
This is interesting to me. I don't script and am not a particularly fast turker. I'm too focused on quality, and I'm not a fast thinker/worker. Once in a while I get a good job that values the skills I have, but turk usually seems to reward the fast, mostly.
Quals are the way to go really and private quals even better, so I wish you good fortune with that. I have a fulltime job so I can afford to be somewhat picky in the hits I do and the amount of work i put into turk. Not saying I don't appreciate or need the extra income but I'm not working for $10 an hour p.s. I'm also super lazy...
I think the "Turk your own turk" saying goes a long way. Skill sets and setups ranging from keyboard shortcuts being a foreign concept and < 1 Mbps connections to people rapidly programming their own scripts and going to town with no limitations. And that's for specific work with direct answers/info type of stuff. That doesn't factor in surveys and things like reading speed or being able to identify ones that will be worth the time investment. Or work that involves math/science/transcription services etc. or something that might require some sort of proficiency, typing speed, or other skill sets. All of that kind of stuff makes what almost every HIT on here worthwhile or not worthwhile to a lot of different people. $1/hr might be $20/hr for others and stuff. And $10/day goals might go up against others $10/hr for 8+ hours being a shitty day. I think the biggest problem is people seeing what some people make and expecting they can do the same because they're on a computer. It's not like a lot of jobs where you can show up and do work and get paid a salary or hourly wage. There's certainly a ton of learning to be done and advice to get, but I think that either helps people out pretty quickly or doesn't make much of a difference. Good example here is discussion of crappy batches not being less than $20/hr or an hourly wage that a lot of turkers consider good being eaten up hurting the platform. Well, that goes beyond the basics of whether or not you can make money here (and what you consider making money) and into what's good to do or not to do, how an individual or micro-community can influence things, what people use or want the platform for or to be able to do, and so on... the problems with a marketplace like this. For most. That a small set benefit from. Mimics the world overall pretty well with lesser extremes, I'd imagine.
Title: Create mTurk HTML for next phase of this project | PANDA Requester: Christopher Carroll [A280BSNGK7BC66] (TO) TO Ratings: No TO (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Want help designing a simple mTurk task Time: 3 hours Hits Available: 1 Reward: $50.00 Qualifications: None
First it did not show the stocks at all and then I tried to access the stocks through the code page and when I did all of them it said 95 left and now it just says 95 left and it is stuck like that also it gives me 101 stocks.