Rejects! Share your experiences here

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  1. srdress

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    I'm starting this thread in hopes that we can share valuable lessons learned from rejected HITs. Obviously we hope they don't happen, but when they do, let's learn how to avoid them in the future!

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    Requester:
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    Batch Hit? (Did you complete other HITs by this requester? How many? Were they accepted?)
    Comment left by requester:
    Why you believe it was rejected:
    Fair rejection?
    Any other comments/follow up?

    Thanks all!
     
  2. srdress

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    Kicking off my own thread...

    Requester: Stony Brook CBPE
    Name of HIT: Political Science Study on Media Consumption (approx. 15 min.)
    Batch Hit? No
    Comment left by requester: None
    Why you believe it was rejected: Mass rejection due to perceived fraud
    Fair rejection? No
    Any other comments/follow up? Messaged requester, after some persistence he agreed to reverse rejection.
     
  3. srdress

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    Requester: Helen Colby
    Name of HIT: Short Survey
    Batch Hit? No
    Comment left by requester: "x"
    Why you believe it was rejected: Mass rejection, possibly accidental or due to perceived fraud
    Fair rejection? No
    Any other comments/follow up? Sent message, will update when I hear back from requester.
     
  4. anne53

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    As we know by now, a lot of us are wondering about this one. I went back into my history to see if the Masters qual was there when I accepted the hit and it wasn't. So either it was something else or there's a problem.
     
  5. srdress

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    Good to know. I've been off the forums for a day, but her TO page has a lot of recent activity. I'm wondering if she will reply to any of us.
     
  6. anne53

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    I'm not going to think about it anymore. Have done all I can do. Emailed her twice and said as much as I can without making too much fuss. If she responds I'll say so. I would like to get rid of the rejection. If I'm going to be rejected, it needs to be for a reason. But got to move on.
     
  7. taxijay

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    $0.25 Rejected

    Requester: Stanford Language and Cognition Lab
    Name of HIT: Very Short Children's Game
    Batch Hit? NO
    Comment left by requester: I'm sorry, but we can't accept and pay for incomplete work. Since a third of the answers were not submitted, I have to reject your submission.
    Why you believe it was rejected: There is something wrong on their end, I know I completed every question.... 2/3 of them not answered is impossable.
    Fair rejection? NO
    Any other comments/follow up? I wrote them and they responded by telling me there may be something wrong, that there is a different person that accepts the hits and they had to talk to that person. Then they wrote back again and told me I did not complete 2/3 of the questions???? Then wrote back a third time saying they could not reverse a reject because MTURK will not let them. She admitted they have had this problem before and they don't know why this is happening. I gave her a link to this forum to explain how to change a reject but no response since. I KNOW I completed every question, I always do, I don't have 1000's of hit like most of you however I have 944 with this being my only rejection :( and I know to answer every question. their TO was and is 50/50 with the bad comments being the same issue I am having. Today I am sending another email again because I feel this is shit!! sorry for the rant..... thank you for making this thread,
    Jason
     
  8. Flora

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    It has been the holidays. Give her time to respond. I had a rejection too by another requester with reason given as: 'x' and I emailed and didn't get response until like a week later or so! Said that I failed to answer the questions correctly. I have no clue what that means and I can't contest that because I can't remember what survey it was so I moved on.
     
  9. anne53

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    Check your history. I found the survey in history and kind of reviewed it and then checked to make sure I found it myself under hits I was qualified for and not from the list where I might have picked it up at 4 AM from someone else's post and not input it into my search bar before doing. I always input into my search bar to avoid doing one that might be 1000 hits where I haven't quite done 500 or something stupid like that. It came up in MY qualified search so I know that wasn't the problem. If it was isolated then it would be understandable, but to reject so many doesn't make sense. It's like there's a quirk in the system or a mistake was made somewhere and we have to take the blame.
     
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    Ah that's interesting about the history part. Yeah I always put it in search bar too to see their TO. But I never thought of looking through my history to find it. Hmm. Because after we are done with the surveys, I never remember what it was about long after that but I do know I am careful with my answers and read thoroughly.

    Yes a batch reject doesn't make sense. I'm sure she will respond and correct it.
     
  11. anne53

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    Takes a bit of time but I'm older and old fashioned. I keep a notebook by puter and input into that and have learned to make a note of survey with a short reminder of what was the content, a word or something to jolt my memory if I run into it again and think "have I been here before?" Then I can exit gracefully and not abandon or risk rejection. Now I'm trying to figure out how to put them in excel. It will probably be easier in long run as I can miss them as the notebook grows. But excel is not as easy for me.
     
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    Requester: Sangwook lee

    hit description: Read a short message (on average 1-2 sentences) and answer simple yes/no or scale questions

    I did ten hits, one was rejected: did not pass a test question for paying attention

    the rest of the hits all approved.

    I was given a hard block on my account from that one rejection. I emailed the requester but haven't heard back.
     
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    Requester: Chris Furst

    Hit description: Read & Write (NO RESEARCH) Fun Practice! (16-cf-11-19-12) ~ EASY with promotion possibility!

    I did five hits, emailed him and told him that I really enjoyed these hits and wondered how many I needed to do to get qualified to do the higher paying hits. He emailed me back that it was a minimum of 30 hits to be considered. I went back to do more hits for him and discovered there's a soft block in place. Even though he told me I did a good job.

    I have emailed him twice to ask what I did to get the soft block or if that's something they do for everyone to give them a chance to review the work before letting them continue. I haven't heard back and I've seen a couple other people here complaining about soft blocks after doing just a few of his hits. I think the "promotion possibility" is just a farce since he blocks you after you do just a few hits so there's no way to get to that magic number of 30 or more.
     
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    If a major university rejects your submission it's generally due to a flaw in the survey or a serious mistake by the worker. In this case it appears to be a flaw which you have pointed out.
     
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    Just got an email with an apology from Sanwook Lee, they bonused me and removed the block.
     
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    Congratulations! That's excellent news.

    (And ewd, well said.)
     
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    Does anyone else get nervous about contacting a requester to ask why their HIT was rejected? I always worry they will decide to block me for questioning the reason.
     
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    Requester:Classify This
    Name of HIT: Is this a webpage
    Batch Hit? (Did you complete other HITs by this requester? How many? Were they accepted?)Yes, did over 500 that were excepted. Then one day I did 376 and they rejected every one of them.
    Comment left by requester: Your answer did not match 2 other people
    Why you believe it was rejected: didn't want to pay anymore
    Fair rejection? no
    Any other comments/follow up? I e-mailed them and explained that I felt the rejection was not fair. They use the same websites on every hit. I had over 500 beforehand that were accepted on the same websites. Instead of responding back to me and working out the problem they gave me a hard block which caused me to get a warning from Amazon. Funny thing is I still have not been paid for a single hit I have done after that.
     
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    I also just got a reply from Stanford Language and Cognition Lab (my reject) stating they will be reversing my rejection..... I AM SO HAPPY :)
     
  20. srdress

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    That's so great to hear!!!

    Thanks to everyone who's shared so far :)
     

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