I do Redwood, and Crowdsurf Support's medium-high priority stuff since they're short and you can get some value out of the numbers. I don't know enough about the other people that pop up, but I often see people grabbing 12.00 and 5.00 transcription jobs that are like .50/audio minute or something like that instead of Casting-Speech's .21/audio minute.
They gave me very specific feedback about how to improve and follow their guidelines, which was great. Then they unfairly rejected me for a timestamp-only hit, admitted their mistake and bonused me the money but didn't reverse the rejection, so now I don't work for them any more. I prefer CrowdSurf when I want to do transcriptions for cheap; I like their interface.
Title: Take a 1-question survey (US-based only) Requester: PickFu' [AI2HRFAYYSAW7] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 4.03 Communicativity ***** 4.39 Generosity ***** 4.69 Fairness ***** 4.66 Promptness Number of Responses: 109 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Pick the choice that best answers the question. Reward: $0.04 Time: 5 minutes Hits Available: 4 Qualifications: Location is US
Title: mark photo group boundaries Requester: SimpleSphere' [A3G8MBAEKF3Y2I] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 5.00 Communicativity ***** 4.29 Generosity ***** 5.00 Fairness ***** 5.00 Promptness Number of Responses: 7 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: mark photo group boundaries Reward: $0.02 Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 1 Qualifications: None
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Title: Upload a photograph of an emotion. Requester: Brent Dixon' [A118YI9W7LVH5H] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 0.00 Communicativity ***** 4.50 Generosity ***** 5.00 Fairness ***** 5.00 Promptness Number of Responses: 2 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Upload a photograph that represents an emotion without using a face. Reward: $0.25 Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 1 Qualifications: None
Watch out for JenniferK's transcription HITs. They are usually great money. She hasn't posted in a while though. ID:- A3L9KG1K0UGWDO TO Page http://turkopticon.differenceengines.com/A3L9KG1K0UGWDO
So what's this bull****? There's a big message saying that the site is unavailable, yet at the same time I can still accept and submit HITs :/
Title: Take a 1-question survey (US-based only) Requester: PickFu' [AI2HRFAYYSAW7] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 4.03 Communicativity ***** 4.39 Generosity ***** 4.69 Fairness ***** 4.66 Promptness Number of Responses: 109 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Pick the choice that best answers the question. Reward: $0.04 Time: 5 minutes Hits Available: 5 Qualifications: Location is US
I like Crowdsurf, but I don't really transcribe for them, just correct other people's transcriptions. They pay really fast and they sorta got a smooth way of trying to suck you off of mturk and into their clutches.
Title: What is your dream? Requester: Brent Dixon' [A118YI9W7LVH5H] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 0.00 Communicativity ***** 4.50 Generosity ***** 5.00 Fairness ***** 5.00 Promptness Number of Responses: 2 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Upload an image that visualized your dream, include descriptive text in the image. Reward: $0.20 Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 1 Qualifications: None