Can't Find Mind-Blowing Hits? - 3/5 Wonderful Wednesday!!!

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  1. Apaullo

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    I cherry picked 6 also but I think I am going to take Bobbie's advise. I am almost at 99.9% approval rate. I don't want to take any chances.
     
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    You guys are killing me...9 out 9 blueprint datas accepted!

    But I understand -- it's all about the perils of maj rules.

    Got it, got it.
     
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    And yet, there are plenty of people who are more than happy to do them. That's always going to be the problem with crowdsourcing work. The undercutting is so brutal it hurts everyone. Workers get worse wages and requesters get worse work. Circle of life.
     
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    Morning all!

    TurkorTreat, I wanted to say thank you for posting some good batches. I know they're not always great, but I've worked on a bunch that you've posted and it's always worked out for me.
     
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    Morning everyone!!

    Got a few hits done this morning, now I'm headed out to get an eye exam done so I can actually SEE. I'm nervous because I'm getting contacts and I've never had them before. And it's a new doctor I'm seeing, which makes me doubly nervous, ugh.

    Hope everyone makes lots of money today :)
     
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    Well, you actually have to remember that the audio and transcription goes through several more things before being sent back to the original client. The 25 second clips get transcribed, then reviewed, then all the 25 sec clips get edited back together, which then gets edited and reviewed. then reviewed again. All by different people who get paid. So, it is probably not nearly as much of an overhead as you are thinking.
     
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    I would feel better about them if they communicated at all. Rejections happen but when a requester refuses to even answer an email that's where I really draw the line.
     
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    I totally agree.
     
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    well thats the thing, you get what you pay for. in this case they arnt. they are paying some obscene amount of money and getting slave labor results.
     
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    BluePrint Data URL Categorization for Quality Website Reviews (WARNING: READ HIT DESCRIPTION BEFORE YOU BEGIN) $0.07 Rejected
    You were automatically rejected by the Mechanical Turk system because your category did not match the category selected by other workers.
     
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    Wow, you made my morning! haha. But seriously, did you do the "Michael Passey" batch I posted last night? THAT'S the kind of batch you have to and master is you want to make the moolah!

    I admit, I post some bad batches because I'm always looking for NEW requesters, the potential diamond the rough, tomorrow's "Two Lakes"...

    I'll keep on posting everything that intrigues me and as always, caveat emptor!
     
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    Contacts are the best! Your life will change when you don't have to wear glasses any more! I sleep in mine (Air Optics) and they are awesome!
     
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    It's exactly what I'm thinking

    15 to transcribe
    15 to review
    Standard 20 percent overhead of 30
    Posting and slicing 15 max

    That's 100 percent margin right there

    I never said they were evil. Just said they had a nice margin.
     
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    I didn't get to that batch last night, wish I had. It was my birthday so I was celebrating with the fam. I was actually able to take much of the day off from turking, which was nice! Back at the grind today!
     
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    #80 TurkorTreat, Mar 5, 2014
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