It's a shame that a company with insane revenue like Google would be pulling such shitty moves on their research. Then again, it isn't far fetched that the level of shitty work they get isn't worth paying much for anymore.
They're definitely doing some weird things. I had a Percy approve yesterday 12 hours after the auto-approval time.
That's the double-edged sword with a requester that rarely/never rejects: they attract all the scammers, making them either leave the platform altogether, or start paying garbage for garbage.
I always wonder if the writing projects finish or leave, and if the researchers or labs let other similar projects know if mturk is a viable platform. People clearly script shitty results or write stuff far simpler than the examples they give on a regular basis. Requesters rejecting and blocking for crappy work should be more common, as should custom quals, but the way workers cry out about rejections/blocks and the lack of super easy qual management (as I understand it) probably turn off a lot of requesters from working with their results and then, like you said, maybe just abandoning the platform.
They used to but not anymore. I regularly eat the spicy chicken caesar salad. Did today as a matter of fact.
I want to say that they've ranged from 3 cents to 6 cents depending on the batch. They may have been higher at the very beginning, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Title: Twitter Response Evaluation | PANDA Requester: Iulian Vlad Serban [A3MG2Y9LUBE9PJ] (TO) TO Ratings: ☭☭☭☭☭ 0.00 Communicativity ☭☭☭☭☭ 5.00 Generosity ☭☭☭☭☭ 5.00 Fairness ☭☭☭☭☭ 5.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 1 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Choose a response to a Twitter conversation Time: 19 minutes 48 seconds Hits Available: 1 Reward: $3.00 Qualifications: None
That's a casual reminder to people checking in that those Endors aren't for American speakers, since people have missed that repeatedly all day.
Title: Judging the similarity of pairs of words(~ 20 minutes) Requester: Cocosci Lab at UC Berkeley [AHG3DFQ65ESGY] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 4.56 Communicativity ★★★★★ 4.18 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.86 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.85 Promptness Number of Reviews: 265 TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: survey Time: 30 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Exc: [381819-11431] has not been granted;Masters has been granted;Total approved HITs is not less than 1000;HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 98;Location is one of: US