HIT by Kevin T. Benton - avoid

Discussion in 'Requesters' started by quiet_forest, Jan 23, 2012.

  1. quiet_forest

    quiet_forest Member

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    I know at least one other person besides myself who has been rejected after doing his "Survey about risk perception." Both of us had 99% approval ratings (I've done over 1,000 HITs). Either there is something wrong with the survey, or it's some sort of scam. My advice is to stay away. I'll be avoiding this requester in future. Has anyone else run afoul of this guy?
     
  2. Stlrfn

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    Thanks for the warning. Haven't seen him before.
     
  3. quiet_forest

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    Quick update: I received a reply from this requester (I was rather blunt) stating that they had decided that their check question was unfair, and that they were working with Mturk to reverse the rejections - that were based on this question. It took a few days, but it was done today. The rejection dropped off my stats and I was paid.
     
  4. riazthemturkhelper

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    That means you get paid really after rejection and it is reversed or what?
     
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    It took a few days, but yes, the HIT was paid and the rejection reversed.
     
  6. riazthemturkhelper

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    So Rejection reversal is possible??? That's a good news... Me got many rejections from CF and Redwood, then me send replies to them with proof that I was really right and my work was wrongly rejected, they don't have reversed the rejection, but paid some bonus as a compensation. The approval rate gone down because of these Requesters (Redwood and CF). I am using the script to block these requesters, I won't need to see their HITs anymore.
     
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    Apparently, but this is the only time I've ever seen it done. Usually, when something like this happens, they just pay you through the bonus system and you eat the rejection.
     
  8. riazthemturkhelper

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    yes... bonus only paid and no rejection reversal for me for the HITs they rejected for bad reasons ( CF and Redwood)
     

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