[FAQ] Frequently Asked Questions About My HITS

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  1. kjross

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    I received notice that I am blocked from doing your HITS, is there anyway to have this removed?

    YES! But first, please allow me to apologize for blocking you in the first place. I recently learned that blocking workers can contribute to their accounts being closed. We will no longer block anyone that puts forth even the slightest amount of effort in doing our HITS. However, we will still continue to approve or reject based on our existing standards. Our software application will automatically block anyone that simply copies and pastes the original HIT as their submission and I do feel that blocking those individuals is warranted. Contact me via the AMT messaging feature and request that your block be removed and I will have it taken care of right away.

    Would you like us to re-order the sentences within a paragraph?

    No, my preference is that you rewrite the paragraph on a sentence by sentence basis and try not to excessively shorten the sentences. So if the original paragraph had 5 sentences and you submit 5 sentences in your rewrite, that is EXACTLY what we are looking for.

    While working on your batch today, I saw a few HITs with errors. Do you want us to mark HITs with any of these issues as broken, using the functionality Amazon built into Turk for that?

    The best way to let me and my staff know is by messaging me through the AMT. All messages received through the AMT are automatically forwarded to a staff member and she would see to it that the editor was made aware of the issue. I would also see it as I check the messages several times a day.
     
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    Would you like us to re-order the sentences within a paragraph?
     
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    Thanks for the question, I have added (and answered) it.

    KJ
     
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    While working on your batch today, I saw a few HITs with errors. Do you want us to mark HITs with any of these issues as broken, using the functionality Amazon built into Turk for that? If not, should we let you know some other way that this is happening, whether by messaging you through AMT or by commenting here?
    1. HIT contains no text to be rewritten, only a keyword and then blank space.
    2. HIT contains a paragraph where one or more sentences are immediately repeated (exactly); looks like a cut/paste error on the HIT-creation side.

    And a bit OT, but thanks again for your responsiveness to our expressed concerns. It is good to do your work again, now knowing that I'll be well compensated for it.
     
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    Thanks for letting me know about this. I have added it to the FAQ and will let me editor know about it right away.

    Regarding my response to the issues/concerns that were expressed, you are very welcome. I am very serious about the statements that I have made here. The AMT is part of the core of my business and because of that, I see the relationship that I have with past/present/future AMT workers as a vital component of my business. That means it has to be managed and that the door has to remain open, both to criticism and praise.
     
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    I sent you an email about this earlier. If a worker gets rejected, would it be possible for them to get a second chance? Completing the HIT in an email in exchange for the rejection being overturned? That being said, this isn't fair if the worker had over 5 HITs rejected, as that is a reflection of pure laziness on the part of the worker.
     
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    Sorry about the late response. Yes, you did email me about this, I have just been a little slow in working my way through all of the messages that I have received. In general, this is not possible, simply because we use a custom software app that makes all decisions final. Our process requires that when a HIT is rejected, we submit it back to the AMT for another worker to complete it. This happens automatically, and because of this, if we allowed the first worker to resubmit or edit their HIT, we would then have two copies of the same paragraph when only one is usable.

    I realize now that this is not the ideal way to handle this and I have already started looking at better solutions. The problem is that to redesign the software is quite expensive and time consuming. As I am writing this, I am thinking of a few "short term" solutions.

    1. If you regularly work on our HITS, the editor could send you a message (without rejecting or approving the HIT yet) stating the HIT needs to be redone and sent back via the AMT messaging function. This could easily get very messy but it "could" be a quick way to allow someone that has proven themselves to fix a submission that would otherwise have been rejected.

    2. I can manually go into the AMT and approve the previously rejected HIT. I would not be inclined to do this, but it is another potential solution. Doing it this way would allow the worker to avoid the rejection, but the work would still not be usable for us.

    I welcome your feedback on these ideas, and I will also take them to the editor and see what she thinks. But for now, I will update the FAQ to state that this is not a possibility at this time.

    KJ
     
  8. naturegirl

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    I just want to check my understanding of your guidelines.

    If the keyword (which must not be changed) is given as singular, then wherever it appears in a plural form in your original paragraph, that's not the keyword, right? In other words, the keyword is exactly literal. Only when it appears exactly as given is it protected, and in no other form does it need to be protected? And that should mean I can use synonyms to remove it from a sentence altogether -- when it is only shown in the sentence in variant form.

    If I understand that correctly, then I assume the same holds if the keyword is given as singular but then a plural form appears in the paragraph needing a rewrite. That instance isn't protected either.

    Maybe the neater, question form of all this would be, "If the keyword is given as singular, can I feel free to rewrite by removing/substituting for it when it appears as plural? Conversely, when the keyword is given as plural, can I feel free to rewrite by removing/substituting for it when it appears as singular?"
     
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    Thanks for the question, I definitely will add this to the FAQ. The answer is YES, if we specify the keyword in one form, such as singular, then please feel free to rewrite/substitute any other variations that you see in the paragraph, as long as it makes sense to do so.
     

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