The best also the worst week ever on Mturk

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  1. Zhaozhen

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    Following weekly report email will explain the title:

    Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

    The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Sep 01, 2012.

    Your HIT activity for this week:
    - Number of HITs submitted: 542

    Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
    - Number of HITs approved: 1,326
    - Number of HITs rejected: 2,465
    - Bonus reward earned: $0.08
    - HIT reward earned: $152.24
    - Total Amount earned this week: $152.32
     
  2. Crayonshaver

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    Good rewards earned, but what the hell happened to your rejecteds?
     
  3. bredeanf

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    that can't be right because the number of HITs submitted is 542 but the number approved is 1326?
     
  4. Athena

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    Approvals can take up to 30 days.
     
  5. bredeanf

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    ohhhh duh it's the number that occurred this week not the number of HITs approved and rejected from the number submitted
     
  6. kalhana

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    Oh wow, I think I would be in tears over that. I am so sorry for you!
     
  7. petegq

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    You have to test the hits out before diving in, thats like a mandatory rule or else stuff like this will happen.
     
  8. RAMANDA1

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    How do you test the hits out before? I'm new at this, have a few that are pending approval. Just wondering, thank you.
     
  9. petegq

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    Well it's just a saying to "test the hit out" you are still doing a regular hit, but instead of completing a huge batch you do a couple of hits and wait until its approved. Then when your 100% sure the requester isnt a frequent rejecter you start doing hits by a large sum.

    Also check forums ask around about Hits I believe there are scripts and websites grading requesters. Don't just do random batches of hits.
     
  10. Turkalicious

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    Easy in some ways. Make sure you have Turkopticon. If you're doing HITs for a requester with no reviews do a few to test the waters. Check this forum for requester names to see what sort of experience others have with them. Even if you're doing HITs for a requester with a ton of reviews if you're new to the HIT do a batch of 10 to test them out.. see if you're doing them properly.. make sure they get approved before diving in.

    Sadly you have to be careful. Blocks can get your account suspended as can a low approval rate. TO is really invaluable and everyone should use it. My opinion of course.
     
  11. RWStein

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    Best advice all day! I'd be dead without TurkOpticon! Instead I am at 99.9% approval!

    Thanks TO!!!
     

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