Despite having good quality scores in their HITs, some of us have gotten locked out. No warning, no email, no responses, no nothing. They were a great source of money when nothing else was available or even just exclusively working on them. Us few unlucky ones are doomed forever
The reason that I have heard is that you are too close to the $600 'limit'. After you get $600 from any one entity, that entity has to send you a 1066 and claim you as an independent contractor. So rather than worry about tax stuff and sending forms, they just take away qualifications.
WRONG. It was their mistake. Most of us got our quals back again. They did something wrong. I don't think they let anyone know they were wrong though. Typical RnR communication.
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I've heard of people with much high and much lower than $600 getting randomly locked out, so that probably isn't it. They have indeed returned some quals, but I wasn't one of the lucky ones. I've sent like half a dozen emails of some form to them, but nothing.
Too bad that isn't a sticky, would save so much time if people would take 30 seconds to read it but I guess some like to speculate...
Quality score 1.1 - AutoGranted on Request is less than 13 I'm at 13, but a lot of other people randomly ended up there too.
Sort of a newbie here. I have no idea how to figure out my scores for Productrnr. I do them a lot when I do turk, but no idea how you figure out what all their numbers mean?
I think for the most part you just have to do quality work and return HITs that have lots and lots of pics that don't load. YOu should then be fine until they randomly lock you out.
That's the weird one that others were losing the qualification and getting back with no real reason why it was lost. The other accuracy qualifier, I haven't read of people getting that back. I would shoot them a mail every few days and ask, can't hurt and it was obviously some strange thing that happened on their end.