Is anybody else goin' HAM on these Dotmenu Web HITs? If so, are you puttin' a URL if it's a residence?
Title: SR Transcribe Requester: Kenneth Roe [ABSF8UXFZYEK6] (TO) TO Ratings: ☢☢☢☢☢ 1.00 Communicativity ☢☢☢☢☢ 1.44 Generosity ☢☢☢☢☢ 2.25 Fairness ☢☢☢☢☢ 1.57 Promptness Number of Reviews: 16 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Transcribe a recording Time: 60 minutes Reward: $0.00 Qualifications: None Guaranteed to fail on this one.
It really isn't a mystery. It's pretty much 99.9% determined that it's a lottery among valid turkers, whatever "valid" means. (Probably more than a thousand HITs or something.) We've established in the last round that even inactive turkers can get it, so enjoy that thought. The only reason this isn't plastered as a fact on every Turker website is because we can't say for certain there isn't some specific pattern behind their decisionmaking, but when the evidence all points to lottery, it's probably just lottery.