Until a couple of weeks ago, the number of Available HITS I saw was continually growing and was up to over a million. Now the number is between 500,000 and 700,000. Is this just me or does everyone see less HITS? Thanks.
I thought maybe it was me. When I clicked on someone's HIT, it said this person has blocked you from doing their HITS.. I was kind of surprised, don't know what happened but thought maybe that is why numbers went down.
The numbers would bear out your suspicions: http://www.mturk-tracker.com/#/general I would rather see 200,000 quality HITs worth working on than 1,000,000+ of the penny junk that predominates nowadays.
Requesters often use blocks like that to prevent you from doing their surveys again. They don't want the same data again.