New to Mturk help me get started!

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  1. reebz123

    reebz123 New Member

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    I just joined mTurk late last night and have been trying to carry out HITs. The only problem is I dont know how to do it, it simply says contact the requester? So, I did this last night, and all the requester said was 'yes, you can carry out this task', sooo confusing, can someone help?!
     
  2. Jamie

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    Sorry. Uncalled for.
     
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  3. MackW

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    I have only been Turking it up for about 2 weeks now, but I have learned alot in those 2 weeks that I would be glad to share. My first bit of advice would be to go slow. My first day out, I just jumped in and started doing HIT's, only to get about half of them rejected. Incase you are unaware thus far, it seems important to have at least a 95% approval rate. What this means is that some of your work will get rejected if it is not done right, and it seems that some requeters can be quite picky. Go slow and test the waters, find out which HIT's and requesters you understand. If you arent sure, just do one or two HIT's and wait to see if they are approved or not, dont do 30. Then, if it turns out you do understand and dont get rejected, slowly up the amount of HIT's you do at a time. Dont worry about making money for the first few days. Worry about learning requesters and HIT's. You dont want to start off as I did and earn yourself a poor approval rate right out of the gate and have to spend hours rebuilding it.
    Secondly, read all the information you can find. I found blogs @ http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/07/05/can-you-actually-earn-reasonable-money-from-mechanical-turk/ and particularly @ http://kannanwrites.hubpages.com/hub/Mechanical-Turk-Complete-Guide-to-Make-Money-on-Mturk very helpful. Learn about Turkopticon and use it.
    Good luck, and I hope this helps. I am always ready to learn more, if more experienced users can shed more light, any tips would be gladly accepted.
     
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    Yes. You are right MackW. Don't expect much from Mturk in the first few days.


    Wish you all the best. Happy TUrking1
     
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  5. kolevski

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    I've been mturking for just a little bit over a week and im on 60$ atm. it's essential to have 95% approval rate.

    Good luck!
     
  6. MackW

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    I'm curious kolevski, what type of HIT's are you doing? Ive been going for 2 weeks and am not even to $30. Of course, I spent the better part of that time building back up to 95%, which I reached yesterday. I had a bad run off of Dolores Labs in which I had several rejects. So could you spare any advice?
     
  7. kolevski

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    I just search for 0.50$ + HITs , or 0.05 with huge bonuses , like 1.50$.

    i also use turkopticon to read recent reviews and see what HITs are trusted
     
  8. Jonman

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    Actually it was rude, whether or not you were "trying", you succeeded. Comments like that are unappreciated and unwanted amongst posters everywhere, even if it is a simple task to you. Perhaps the person doesn't want to make any mistakes and is trying to get a friendly suggestion that points in the right direction. It doesn't mean they are incapable of thinking on their own two feet, but rather that they are unfamiliar in a strange new place and humbly reaching out to those who have already been down this road. A wise move to ask no matter how dumb you (who is obviously an authority on the human mind) perceive it to be. "If ya can't say nothin' nice, then don't say nothin' at all". Because what you say sucks and isn't helpful.
     
  9. zinni

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    Yeah, what Jonman said. It's really annoying to be on a forum (any forum) and have some know it all do the whole, "Why are you even asking this question, you big dummy?" I wish all those self-appointed "geniuses" would just go away.

    But as for working on mturk, just go slow. Don't try to make a lot of money. Try to make a little money. And then try to make a little more. That way you won't get too frustrated. And if you find yourself working for some requester (*cough* Delores Labs *cough*) that seems to take a lot of time for very little pay, go on to something else. Some of the requesters on mturk just aren't worth working for.
     
  10. reenadhanesh

    reenadhanesh New Member

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    Study the instructions before u accept the hit.Mostly instructions are clearly mentioned in every work
     
  11. francesdeniel

    francesdeniel New Member

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    Absolutely true!
     
  12. Theshredder

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    You need to click on View a hit and that will bring up another screen with directions, and at the top you'll see an accept button. Reading directions is important, especially if you due a ton of hits only to have them all returned rejected the next day so...
     
  13. lordson

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    Hi guys..i have been turking for the past few months...currently i have around 88% approval rate but i often get very less available hits(at times even less than 100)...why is it so?? Could you give me tips to increase the,"hits available to me".....!!
    11!!
     
  14. swiftkick

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    You can increase the HITs available to you by:

    1) Increase your HIT approval rate. A lot of HITs are restricted to people with a 95%, 98% and 99% approval rate. Use Turkopticon to find requesters that are good and do not reject. Do NOT do work for bad requesters.

    2) Increase your total HITs approved to over 1000. New HITs become available once you have 1000 approved HITs.

    3) Try to get more qualifications. A lot of HITs have instant qualifications, and others require you to take a test for the qualification.
     
  15. Rhain

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    View the hit in a separate tab or window and do not hit accept until you have read all of the instructions and think you can do it. If it is a survey, click on the link into a new tab and look at what the survey needs before you accept the hit. I've seen some where the age limit was cut off right before my age group, so I just clicked off of it.

    Don't worry about it, I messed up too the first day. If you close out of a hit before you finished it, don't despair. At the top of the Mturk dashboard is a tab "HITS". If you click on it, underneath you'll see HITS assigned to you. It will be right there waiting. I didn't even notice that so some of my hits expired the first day, which I have learned can count against you.

    I'm two weeks into this and I'm still trying to find out what everything means. Just do the easy ones until you build up your stats and then get more adventurous.
     
  16. Danthony

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    Once you get 500 hits approved the money gets better

    Cant wait till I reach a thousand
     
  17. kolevski

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    Just another , probably best tip is : Just do goddamn HITs and use turkopticon. I've been doing HITS for 2 weeks i got paid 73$.

    Recently instead of me searching for HITs , requesters started emailing me cause i did good work on their HITs to take part of their future HITs with O.K bonuses if i complete them all
     
  18. Jamie

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    Sorry for being a bitch everyone. I was having a bad day and shouldn't have taken it out on someone else.
     
  19. ashashamannavenkatram

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    dear sir/madam,
    its very easy to work on HITs. When you have doubt only you can contact the requester. otherwise choose simple tasks like copy paste jobs or if you are good in english, you can choose simple tasks like rephrase, modify, correct...etc.

    good luck.
    asha
     
  20. lordson

    lordson Active Member

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    Dear asha..!

    But for how many days you keep doing this kinda (searching hits)...go for big ones..earn more...........!!:)
     

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