I am getting really upset about HITs which give you an example of what you will be asked to do and when you accept the HIT there are 5 or 10 times that one example. With no hint before you accept and usually for a really low amount. That's my annoyance for today. Anyone else fancy sharing theirs?
Mine is the sheer amount of location blocks that really limit what I can work on It's just a complete pain in the arse lol Also when you apply for a qualification of a HIT you really wanna do and then just never hear anything back from it.. which happens like 90% of the time A little message to your email saying you were declined or something would be nice..
Hi Iceblink, I definitely feel your pain on those location blocks. I'm British so could probably do any for the UK but since I am in the Netherlands I don't get them!
Another Pet Peeve... cheap requesters. Like this one: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=259QVR14IXKOCDO1HQ3WE6XBZVL98M Wanting a 200 word original summary of an article for 1 cent.
I find .01 for a 200 word rewrite much worse than the .02 Oscar Smith business card HITS which take me less than a minute to do. I refuse to do any writing that pays less than 1/2 a cent per word unless I am absolutely bored out of my mind. I can hammer out a good many OS HITS thus increasing my number of HITS overall in a very short period of time and be paid promptly. I don't find them ideal but they are worthwhile (to me) on my march towards 1000 HITS approved which opens up more work. Doing 1000 writing HITS would take a very long time, lol...
Yeah, obviously 1 cent for 200 words is ridiculous. I think OS is pretty sad too though, it's requesters like him that kind of ruin MTurk. Sure his hits are approved fast, but that's about the only good thing. 2 cents is crazy for what is basically 60 seconds + of work. Even if you got so good at them that you could do one every 30 seconds (which is pretty unrealistic), that still only comes to $2.40/hr.
Oh I agree the pay is really low on those. But I just can't do those bulk HITS rapid fire like you and people like Playa can. So the OS Hits are my way of pushing my numbers up without totally frying my hands for the day. And I get very nervous when I do have more than 5 or so HITS pending with one requester. Guess I'm an Mturk coward! LOL! The one requester- and I can't remember who it was wanted a 1000 word article- yes 1000 word article rewritten for something like .25! I seriously wanted to email them and say "REALLY????"...ugh...
I find the Oscar Smith ones difficult. Maybe it's my eyesight I agree though you have to take the hits that you can when you're grinding towards 1000 (which I am also doing Kristilec). I take the ProBoards photo mod ones every time I see them. Not too many rules to follow on those ones (and few really obscene images that my kids might accidentally see while I work!)
Haha well I can understand the nervousness. I always try to make sure that a requester has a 4 rating on TO for the fairness and generosity categories before I push out several hundred hits for them. Another thing that helps make it quick and easy for those types of hits is knowing your keyboard shortcuts, instead of having to point and click with the mouse all the time.
My "pet peeve" is with my ISP dropping my DSL service for unannounced maintenance during the night ... it could be down for minutes or hours ... a couple nights ago it was about half an hour, came back at exactly 1 second past the expiration time of the HIT I was working on. The ISP (very big USA telco) has cut their nightly tech support to nothing ... so I can't even complain until morning ... LOL Assuming these are mostly normal maintenance outages (affecting presumably hundreds of customers besides just me), I will ask again if they can give us any schedule or warning ... Right, they are happy to send marketing email, but they can't email a warning before cutting service? ...
Think yourself lucky you are not in Ireland... we just moved from there. At our last house there we couldn't even get ADSL! We had a stupid region wireless signal that died all the time. Scotland, where we originate from, is just as bad. In the UK and Ireland,unless you're in a city area, you're lucky to get a 1mb ADSL. Now we are in the Netherlands and we have a 110mb glass fibre connection but our computer equipment is too old to use as much as half of that.
My pet peeve is surveys that don't tell you how much time they think it will take and surveys where they change the name slightly when the repost but then tell you they'll reject if you've taken it before. How am I supposed to know if I've taken it before if they've changed the name?????
My biggest pet peeve is my "high speed," "5 Mbps download" internet service rarely doing better than 0.25 Mbps download, and worse during tourist season. It really destroys my ability to get a good number of HITs done! I live in the rural US, and we also have one of those terrible region wireless signals. The fibre connection that brings it even gets cut once or twice per year by construction crews, cutting off SW Utah to internet and phone service - ha I also get really irritated with "truth by consensus" HITs. What about 2 out of 3 makes the 2 who answered the same way right? *facepalm* I just did a large number of them tonight for a requester with a decent Turkopticon score... we'll see how it goes. :\
That's why I prefer the Qualtrics surveys over any of the other ones. When you take one through qualtrics it has a percentage in the title bar of your browser so you know how far into the survey you are. If I finish 4 pages of questions then look up and see that it says I'm still only like 8% of the way through, I just quit and return the HIT.
I have only done one Qualtrics survey and it was rejected unfairly (the requested said we must be getting the confirmation code somehow, wha?) I got into emails with him and he promised to sort it out but hasn't. Now, I don't know if he was scamming or if it was a problem with Qualtrics, so I just avoid them now.
Most of the surveys I do are on Qualtrics, but not all of them have that status bar. Still, I'd prefer to know that information up front rather than return hits.