Can't Find Good HITs? 9/22

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Who is Your Favorite Requester for Batch HITs?

  1. NetMSi

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    3.4%
  2. Redwood

    8 vote(s)
    9.1%
  3. CrowdFlower

    3 vote(s)
    3.4%
  4. CrowdSource

    18 vote(s)
    20.5%
  5. Two Lakes

    14 vote(s)
    15.9%
  6. Praveen B.

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    10.2%
  7. PPC WWBP

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    19.3%
  8. Classify This

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    3.4%
  9. Other...

    9 vote(s)
    10.2%
  10. I don't do Batch HITs

    4 vote(s)
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  1. shyaamist

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    OY!!! My head is starting to hurt trying to remember what requesters I did what for.... where is that vodka someone was talking about earlier?!
     
  2. shyaamist

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    NO!!! Quite flipping me the bird!!!
     
  3. saladpope

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    Anyone here NOT despise JavaScript? I really do, but I think I am going to have to dust of my M@D SK1LLZ to mod some of these scripts... "Discover Fake Availabilities" makes MT think I am trying to DOS it, and so does "Pending HITs."
    I think if I were to make Discover play nice with Block Requesters, the DOS issue would disappear, and Pending just needs a wait inside its primary loop, I suspect.
    Yuck...
     
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  5. Britska412

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    I just received an email from MTurk, saying I was blocked from completing anymore HITS from Research Project. I went back through and they approved me for everything I did for them. It was that easy batch where you circled the items they asked you to. Said it was over "poor quality", but the HIT was easy, I know I did not have poor quality. Do they often block someone if they do too many? I'm a little confused.
    Message was titled, "Account Warning". Freaked me out when I read it.
     
  6. RWStein

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    Ohh hell yeah. I as soon as I finish doing some driving I have to do at 8:00 PM I am all over the vodka!!!!!
     
  7. HappyFish

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    Thanks :)

    Ended up with 3/4 of the randomly chosen as losses, but still ended up with +3 pts :(
     
  8. Moutheater

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    I got the same e-mail. I know I didn't violate any of their terms. It scared the hell out of me.
     
  9. Ovningskora

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    Been doing quite a few of these. Fun stuff.
     
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  11. RWStein

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    Yeah... I have edited several of these scripts...

    But the writers had the best intentions and did them for free! I have donated to a couple! Who the hell has time to write these things with what mTurk pays!?!?!?

    I have not come across the DOS warning from mTurk - but have heard of others that have. I have several windows on mTurk that auto refresh every minute.

    I have the block requester script but don't use it often except when certain requesters slam mTurk with HITs and I just don't feel like seeing them. That is the one I heard created the biggest amount of issues on mTurk for DOS concerns...

    I really haven't had an issue with the "Discover Fake Availability" script. But I did get that a while ago and the author may have changed it. I really love that script because the "View a HIT From This Requester" option goes to red if their really aren't any available! A big help for surveys because I honestly can't remember what survey's I've taken by requester name and if it's red I just move on as I know I've taken it.

    The "Pending HITs" script pretty much every one uses and I've never heard a complaint or an issue with DOS concerns from mTurk. You might want to check your settings.
     
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  12. RWStein

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    Scavenge Game is Up! $2.oo + $10.oo Bonus Potential!!!

    Ok y'all! Scavenge game is up for 5:00pm ET!

    Guaranteed $2.oo with the opportunity to make the $10.oo bonus! Myself and five others made the bonus just yesterday - a couple are even in this forum!!! Great HIT, great requester and the payment comes VERY FAST!

    REMEMBER!!! You can only do this HIT once! Read the instructions!!!!! and have fun! "Now Go Make That Money!!!"

    Hurry - because he only needs six to play the game!!! If you are not one of the six he'll let you know when the next game is.

    https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=25M5K4F0OHOV9XW90WF2S92IMC012V

    $10 bonus to win New cooperative team game

    Requester: Yuan Hou Reward: $2.00 per HIT HITs Available: 3 Duration: 5 hours
    Auto-Approval Time: 7 days
    Qualifications Required: Location is not IN
     
  13. saladpope

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    I get these messages informing me I have "exceeded the max number of requests" -- it is a matter (I think) of the way Pending iterates through the document tree -- looks kind of like it is issuing an HTTP request for each pending item, which is death if you have hundreds or thousands of pendings. In the case of Discover, it HAS to double the number of requests per page display in order to work, and there I only get warned when I hit Next too quickly and too often (this happens mostly when I come up with a completely blank page (I have SpeechInk blocked)).

    And far be it from me to malign the work these people have done, I'm exceptionally thankful for their work. I just wanted to know if others were experiencing similar issues, etc.
     
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    Reply to the requester notifying them they hard blocked you and that would they please change it to a soft block which will still stop you from their work but not affect your account. DO all you can to get that block removed.
     
  15. 2muchTurkin

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    I do batch hits and had to uninstall 'pending earnings'. Amazon does not like that many page requests so fast.
     
  16. RWStein

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    I've had the problem you speak of with the "block" script and that too was because I just hit "next page" quicker than mTurk was comfortable with. As far as the "pending" script - I've never had more than 250 pending in a day - so I can't speak for thousands of pendings. I just have not had the issue.

    I do keep 3-4 windows open with different search criteria on mTurk at all times and they are all set to reload every minute. So it seems mTurk is seriously looking for DOS issues but not trying to snag the general good worker or I wold have gotten the warning on those. I don't see how the "pending" script would cause a DOS warning looking at the script. But I am no programmer... :D
     
  17. HappyFish

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    I had 1000+ pending the other day and the pending script gave me no problems.
     
  18. BigginZ

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    I have 1700 pending right now and it's not giving me problems.
     
  19. 2muchTurkin

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    Let me clarify. No the daily earnings but the pending earning script. And I get the message too many page requests. Or something similar to that message.

    edit: it goes through these pages of hits to get a total pending. to many i guess.
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  20. tbanny

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    I haven't been active most of the day, but I'm not doing so hot. I've only got $7.50 so far. Bleh...Saturdays...
     
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