Is this a joke? How can you people be serious by asking something like this. It was ridiculous enough people asking to lower it to 1k, but it is ABSURD to ask a requester to lower an approval percentage. Maybe try upping your approval percentage or you shouldn't have gotten them in the first place. Anyway, you can all have my HIT's, I'm taking my alerts off of him. 55 HIT's out of 3,500 batches isn't even worth the tease.
That would be incredible. They would still get done within a half hour but at least the requester would get great work from a handful rather than half good work and half spam, which I'm sure he's getting.
Let's not get carried away with this. In all seriousness, it seems like a lot of experienced turkers are not having a problem doing 40 or more per batch, depending on when you start. No reason to get into the requires masters, requires 10,000, 20,000 debate which is ridiculous. As always, best way to prevent spam is to create your own custom qual. Thank you for providing us with work at a desirable rate, and we'll be glad while it's here.
There's not really any reason for debate. Why do you think *most* of the good paying, legitimate requesters end up with 10k+, 20k+, or custom quals. Eventually, they discover that they can't get good work from the entire pool. Heck, I could open up an account right now and get to 1,000 in a couple days with all spam answers and no rejections. I would say there is a considerably sized percentage of people out there that only do work they can spam without fear of rejection. And yes, I say this out of frustration of only being able to get 55 out of 3,500, but it does not make it not true. The way I look at it is if people are into asking requesters to lower their expectations then it's perfectly reasonable for people to argue the other side of it.
That's fine, I'm not arguing someone's opinion, and I'm definitely not going to debate in a very, very good requester's thread. All I'm saying is that it makes no sense, especially with a new requester, to start demanding these super high totals. He will make the decision that works best for him, and if he feels the spam rate is too high, a custom qualification is easily the best solution vs. cutting off all the extremely qualified workers who haven't been around long enough to get high submissions approved. It is more possible to get spammed entries at just 1,000, yes, but there are far more workers that are around that level that have a chance to prove their worth too, and can be as equally reliable for these tasks as a veteran.
Agreed 100%, but it goes both ways. I never would have said anything if I didn't see somebody asking for the 98% to be dropped for a second time, after seeing so many asking for the HIT count to be lowered.
I remember two weeks ago when the great hits thread was filled with frantic posts conveying confusion and skepticism over Andrew Carman hits. All the while I worked diligently, at a leisurely pace, amassing generous earnings, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Boy do viewpoints change rapidly and to opposite extremes on this forum..
..as I just received a negative rep for the previous post (lol!) asking to clarify the point (that I thought to be clear): give requesters the benefit of the doubt and complete their HITs early on instead of complaining about lowering quals.
Two Questions. This is most common with tea or salad. If the description has honey (for tea) or Italian dressing (for salad) I am "assuming" the honey & dressing is in the tea or salad. With the salad you can tell some dressings but not others. So I would mark these as correct? Well this is actually along the same lines. The description says "cereal and milk" but only shows the box of cereal. How would you prefer us to mark that. The two usually are together.
I have the same question in reference to the water with lemon. If it says 'water', I have been marking it 'one of a few' since the water has a lemon wedge. Hope that's right.
Here is the answer I e-mailed out: That would be one thing of a few. That's a tricky one, but there are two distinct options. I'd say you could go with only match if it were food, but since it's food in a drink, it's a bit different. A similar situation would be a tea with mint leaves. That would be one of a few if the description was tea.
For those, mark it as a match. If a condiment (mustard, ketchup, salad dressing, mayo, etc) is described but not easily visible, it's fine that it is in the food itself. If the description is for cereal and milk, and a picture is only of the cereal, then it is not a match because milk is not present in the image.
It the description is apple, but there are two, do I put "one of a few" or "match"? Thanks. Also, I have one with two bowls of mostly eaten cereal. LOL!