ContentGalore HITs

Discussion in 'General' started by Lipglossedify, Sep 30, 2009.

  1. Lipglossedify

    Lipglossedify Member

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    I am sure you have seen this around.

    Basically, he/she names a music artist and asks that you write a 100 word review about them. Pay is well at 76 cents.

    My concern is the approval process for the above completed HITs.

    They are done by us Turkers which would be fine if there were not those out there abusing the system.

    You get paid 3 cents to check if the review is copied, is about 100 words - basically if the author followed the rules. When I turn these HITs in I do them the right way of course. There are several people however that are just copying and pasting the same review for every artist and I am wondering if they are getting paid to do no work while I am taking the time to actually write original content for each HIT I work on. It is very frustrating to say the least when yesterday, two of the ones I completed were rejected for this reason:

    Sorry, a panel of fellow mechanical turkers has recommended against acceptance based on the requirements specified in the HIT.

    Now who is to say that did not happen because of the cheaters just marking reviews as bad or what not?

    Anyone else notice this? Any suggestions, should I contact the requester about it?

    I look forward to reading what you all have to say! :)
     
  2. sonica

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    I have done the review HITs and have been disgusted with the content submitted by turkers. About 90% of the opinions have been plagiarized and only 5% of the remaining 10 were sensible.

    I had emailed the requester as I wanted his feedback on some doubts I had about these HITs. Earlier there were HITs where opinions on football and cricket players were to be reviewed. I have seen too many submissions where instead of a 200-300 word article I had to check content which had 1700 words. These articles included bio's of players and scores and I wouldn't mind it if they did in proper language. Instead they wrote Height: 170, Weight: 75, etc.... It is obvious from their work they are copy pasting from 10 different sources to beat Plagium.

    All in all I will say there is bad work being submitted and I don't blame the requester here. If you feel your work is rejected without any reason, go ahead and contact the requester.

    BTW, his new guidelines for reviews favors the writers as he asks reviewers to let it pass if the article has only 89 words instead of the required 100, but if the work is really good. I don't see any other changes in the guidelines.
     
  3. mysconnie

    mysconnie Active Member

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    Yes, I got a rejection too, and sent them a little message in the contact the requester box. I told them I'd like to dispute it. I have skimmed through several of the reviews and I know what you're saying. 'So and so is of course one of the greatest, blah blah...and of the box office'?!?:confused: The ones I did were correct, at least the minimum amount of words, and I am kind of fuming and also scared about the fact that they aren't getting approved.
     
  4. sonica

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    Are you getting rejections on the writes or the reviews?
    I haven't been regular at MTurk recently, so don't know if things have gone bad on these HITs.
     
  5. mysconnie

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    Sorry, I was kind of rushed when I wrote that. I got a rejection on a review and the same message as Lipglossedify : Sorry, a panel of fellow mechanical turkers has recommended against acceptance based on the requirements specified in the HIT.
    A "panel"? I wonder if that is true, as in more than one person rejected it/them? I can't believe that. I did 10 between yesterday and today and none have been approved yet.
     
  6. sonica

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    I just tried one of the review HITs and had to point out some spelling mistakes. Let me see what happens, I will post here.

    I don't know what is wrong now, but earlier twice I had accidentally hit 'enter' before I could mark the word as good, ok, bad or plagiarized. I was waiting for rejections and to my surprise all the HITs had been approved.
     
  7. Lipglossedify

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    I submitted a lot of HITs reviewing the reviews and probably came across some of yours mysconnie. lol But don't worry, I only rejected these sorts:

    ...blah blah is "the greatest artist in the world, I like to sit on the beach with my Ipod"...and who knows what else... same script over and over. Reject.

    What about the ones that just said all facts without even a space after the sentence, reject!

    and the one that only said, "nice review". Reject!

    Hopefully I helped in the rejection of the above crap submissions but again, it is not fair that those who actually do the work get rejected too. Did you ever receive a response when you sent the requester a message?

    Any response from the requester mysconnie?

    Sonica, that is odd that they went through ok, a few times I either pressed enter too fast without marking my choice or writing something in that box and I received a red error message, it would not submit until I filled out what I was missing. Did you ever receive a response when you sent the requester a message as mentioned in your first response?
     
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  8. mysconnie

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    No, I didn't hear anything from them. I just wonder if more than one person voted (?) to reject, since it says a "panel". To be honest, I was thrilled when I saw all those HITs for 76 cents, then when I started looking through them it was a whole other story-What? Who? I think they made some of those UP! But, that would be a good way to weed out the cheaters.

    Did anybody do any of these from yesterday (Friday)? I did two, and one got rejected by the so-called 'panel' which is odd, since I was grading some of them and happened across both of mine and, of course, did not mark them bad, since they met all the requirements. I contested this one too, we'll see what happens. Probably nothing.
     
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  9. sonica

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    I have never heard about any rejections on review HITs before, don't know what is happening. But like I said earlier I haven't done much work recently, so maybe things have changed.

    Lipglossedify, the requester replied and answered my queries. I sent him a portion of an article which had crazy signs like ampersand, dollar etc and now I see new instructions which asks writers to avoid those signs. Obviously, he responds and improves things.

    I too got the red box warning when I did not put any remarks in the box and tried to submit. You have to write something, even if it is just - ok, good work or bad, even though you have ticked those options.

    I still don't understand how I auto submitted those HITs. I think I was copy pasting the URL and instead of pressing ctrl-V, I must have hit some other key by mistake.

    I too have seen some HITs which had just 2-5 words and did not have to check it. It was like - accept and submit, within 5 seconds. :)
    But since the requester put in that qualifier, good work is being submitted. At least no more 1700-2100 word articles to be checked when be only asked for 200-300 words.
     
  10. mysconnie

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    I am talking about rejections on the Review this artist, not on reviewing the review. Not the 3 centers. I have yet to hear anything, but I have mine saved if he would like to show me why they were rejected. I'd like to know what the qualification percentage is for the graders/reviewers of the reviews, because I know you can have a really low % approval and still be able to write the Review this Artist HITs.

    As far as the punctuation it always had something stated about just using basic punctuation, at least for the reviews.
     
  11. sonica

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    Mysconnie, it seems someone is too harsh reviewing your work or isn't bothering to read and rate it. I have never rated 'bad' if the article had just some spelling, grammar, punctuation or capitalization mistakes. I have rated 'bad' only when the sentences did not make any sense or were totally irrelevant to the topic.

    I have seen some articles where the topic was some actor/musician and the article was some recent news from yahoo or when the topic is bank rate and the writeup is about insurance.

    Wait for a few days and see whether the requester has something to say.
     
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  12. Underdog

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    These hits would be terrific if I had any clue who 90% of those people are.I only do the ones where I actually know what I'm talking about.Last time I reviewed some of them there was one guy who copy and pasted the same stupidity at least thirty or forty times.Most of the others it's obvious that the writer has no idea who these people are...Which doesn't surpise me at all.
     
  13. mysconnie

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    I actually heard from this requester, but he asked me to let him know the HITs that were rejected, which, of course, I don't know. I told him it was the ones I contacted him about. But now they're back up under a different requester 'name' which seems a bit peculiar.
     
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  14. sonica

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    I saw hits posted with the same name 'Content galore' just an hour ago.
    Why don't you send the HIT IDs to the requester?
     
  15. mysconnie

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    I have been in contact with him. He said the reason they were rejected was because they didn't pass plagium! That would almost be funny if it didn't make me so mad. I tried it myself, after the fact, and it says that there is stuff from yahoo articles or something,which I don't even look at. Maybe I used common expressions, but I found another site which checks, sentence by sentence, and it came out fine. As it should. I don't cheat-if I did I wouldn't be on here getting all indignant about this! He was very nice about it. Very nice.

    By the way, the HITs last night were a number. Maybe he/they changed to the name later.
     
  16. sonica

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    There was some glitch earlier at MTurk which changed requester names to numbers. Everything is back to normal now.
    I usually run my work through article checker (and now Plagium too) to avoid unjust rejections. You can give it a try, it helps as sometimes some phrases which are commonly used can cause some problem. I don't want silly rejections, so I am prepared if someone rejects on the grounds of plagiarism.
     
  17. Snook

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    Problem or Glitch? Yesterday I sent out a message to Contentgalore after not being able to access their HITS any longer. Usually, they get back to me within an hour or two, but I haven't received a response yet. Suddenly my qualification is set at zero instead of ten, after hundreds of approvals and not a single rejection. On the HIT listing page for Contentgalore... The text in the upper right of each HIT box now reads as follows:

    "Not Qualified to work on this HIT (Why?) | View a HIT in this group"

    When I click on "Why?", the pop-up window has this text:

    "Not qualified to work on this HIT

    You are not qualified to accept this HIT for the following reason(s):

    * This HIT requires the QualifiedWriter Qualification with a value is greater than 10. Your value is 0. The test associated with this qualification can not be re-taken. "


    I have not received any rejection emails or qualification revocation emails and my turk statistics are stellar with only 5 rejections (from Conjecture Corp) and feel a bit confused and rather worried, as this has been decent income while out of work. Has anyone experienced this before? Heeeeeellppppp!

    HITs Submitted 11281
    ... Approved 11272 100.0%
    ... Rejected 5 0.0%
     
  18. Snook

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    Contentgalore

    Still no response from them. :confused:
     
  19. sonica

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    Contact the requester again and if you have his email you can contact him directly.
    He is great on feedback and usually replies within a day.
     
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    Another reject

    I took one of the ContentGalore hits this afternoon, writing a 200-300 essay on Fashion Games. I didn't look at any writing about this topic online; I did check out a few of the Fashion Game sites to verify my memory. This is something I know quite a bit about from another aspect.

    I was quite surprised to get the Rejection message - same as the others, a "panel of fellow Turkers" rejected it. I know there were not problems with grammar or spelling, and I know the content was substantive, accurate, and original.

    This was my first experience with ContentGalore. I enjoy writing, but the common experience of so many here makes me think I'll pass on future HITs from these folks. Thanks, everyone, for helping a new Turker sort out the ropes.
     

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