MedCrowd

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Would It Help If Medcrowd Posted Seperate Batches During The Day?

  1. ~ 9:00am - 10:00am ET (6:00am - 7:00am PT)

    26 vote(s)
    17.9%
  2. ~ 10:00am - 11:00am ET (7:00am - 8:00am PT)

    38 vote(s)
    26.2%
  3. ~ 11:00am - 12:00 noon ET (8:00am -9:00am PT)

    38 vote(s)
    26.2%
  4. ~ 12:00 noon - 1:00pm ET (9:00am - 10:00am PT)

    54 vote(s)
    37.2%
  5. ~ 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET (10:00am - 11:00am PT)

    44 vote(s)
    30.3%
  6. ~ 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET (11:00am - 12:00 noon PT)

    34 vote(s)
    23.4%
  7. ~ 3:00pm - 4:00pm ET (12:00 noon - 1:00pm PT)

    26 vote(s)
    17.9%
  8. ~ 4:00pm - 5:00pm ET (1:00pm - 2:00pm PT)

    29 vote(s)
    20.0%
  9. Auto posted after 5:00pm ET (Mark would not be available to answer questions until next day)

    30 vote(s)
    20.7%
  10. No Preference

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
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  1. Jak

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    Well I can't say I was expecting all of this when I woke up this morning. I just want to go back to how it was when there was no set time and we were all fine by it. Intrnet Dramaz.
     
  2. PavelDatsyuk

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    People are really suggesting this? Tell them to go cry about being too slow somewhere else. :p
     
  3. kyina69

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    I call it creative debating ;)
     
  4. Ryberg

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    Yes, they are, and tbh, it frustrated me. Some are also suggestin' against us acceptin' 25 HITs at a time as if that would make the batch go away a bit slower (It wont; Crowdsource's batches go fast and they limit you to one HIT accepted at a time for a particular batch, so that's not the problem). TBH, nothin' in regards to limits or HIT acceptance should be changed. This should have stayed as a time discussion.
     
  5. Medcrowd

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    And it should stay that way. I won't necessarily change that because work is there, and if you can only take 25, and there are 300 of you (-1 for me lol) then thats 7500. With the bigger batches everyone wins if that strategy is employed.

    The biggest thing is timing. It seems like times to expect batches on certain days works the best that way its on some sembence of a schedule.

    Right now even if a schedule would be implemented it would be kinda slow or sluggish because I need to start pacing my work instead of throwing out giant batches all the time, but to supplement this in the long term ,we will put putting up new HIT types for different or new types of information. Know what a schedule looks like will enable me/us to plan when and how to prepare.

    So it may not seem like it, but this is as much for us as it is for you.

    ~ Mark L.
     
  6. amoreno

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    oh im not saying queueing is bad at all, if it sounded that way i apologize, it was just a way to explain it.
     
  7. Jak

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    I don't get the limit thing either. We've all done batches that have just disappeared instantly from people grabbing 20+ at a time, so we can tell pretty easily when that's happening. But with Medcrowd, I have seen that happen maybe three times in the four or so months I have been able to do them. Take yesterday's batch for example; they steadily went down the entire time, even when there were only 100 left.

    I think one or two people are blowing this out of proportion and it has now come to this ridiculous level. It's almost as bad as the people yelling at Mark for suggesting to come here and vote.

    tl;dr - People be crazy.
     
  8. mohammed kaleem

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    any hits for today?
     
  9. Ryberg

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    To be honest, the 20+ HIT acceptance was common from the very start. If anythin', the batch goes faster now cause new ppl received the qual not too long ago, so there's a bit more ppl workin' now.
     
  10. Whimsy

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    No. Meetings and virtual fires to put out.
     
  11. Medcrowd

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    No, most likely tomorrow.

    ~ Mark L.
     
  12. Medcrowd

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    All in all, with regards to time, 12 1 & 1 - 2 are the top 2 time slots.

    ~ Mark L.
     
  13. Ryberg

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    I've noticed that's been the usual time you've uploaded HITs, so I never had a problem with the times :).
     
  14. amoreno

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    Im not for limiting the number you can take, or or against queueing batches, and I think the poll is unneccessary, if you can work efficiently and mark always sends out his prep email, then you should be good to go. if you dont have a schedule that fits it for that day which i have had, well thats my bad, nothing on medcrowd or the other turkers that got to snatch up the great work :) I queue, i work hard, and alway look fwd to the email, if it works for me that day its gonna be a good day. If it doesnt, its not my problem to say when it gets posted.
     
  15. Jak

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    I guess I never really noticed it. It always seemed like a waste of time to load up on them when there are plenty there. But yeah, they definitely started disappearing a lot faster the second the new group got their quals. I wonder how many of us are actually doing these now.
     
  16. Jak

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    Same here. 12 might not be the most ideal time, but I'm fine with moving lunch to a different time for them.
     
  17. sunny4691

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    Anytime before or at 12:00 ET will work for me, bcoz am from India(GMT +5.30) so its already 10:30 PM when its 12 PM in EST and I have to stay awake till about 2 am when working on your HITs lol
     
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    I'd be interested to see what portion of the 297 workers can make themselves available when the work goes up. I would be willing to bet more than 50% will be ready to work whenever the batch is posted. If you do a poll I'd like to see this.
     
  19. janissary

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    Mark,

    I think the copious amount of support you've been given, as well as all the various feedback on the scheduling is a great example of why mturk works as a platform for your company to use. I hope you're around a long time and I, like everyone else here, really appreciate everything that you do. I hope the higher ups near you appreciate you the same.

    I think the idea of having a schedule where earlier batches always get posted on some days, later batches on other days is great.

    You could make it easier to remember by setting it up, for example, all early batches (12-1) are posted earlier in the week, later batches (e.g. 2-3) posted on Thursday and Friday.

    No splitting of batches or quals daily necessary, which would just require more work. And everyone gets a variety of times during the week that they can make.

    Regardless of what you decide I think it is clear that most people will show up on your terms no matter what, so there's at least not too much there to worry about.

    Just please, none of these crazy early am times for us west coasters is all I ask. :) Thanks again.
     
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    Holy hannah I missed a lot.. see what happens when I take a day off LOL

    So let's see I'll make this quick since I'm going to eat Pizza Hut and play some Borderlands with the husband haha I don't like the idea of splitting batches but that's just my personal opinion. I am honestly Turking on and off all day so if the batch is going up the only way I won't make myself available for it is if I'm not home. I think maybe alternating times like Whimsy suggested sounds like a pretty good idea. Maybe M-W-F at 2pm est and Th-Fr at 10am or whatever then alternate those days/times the following week. I dunno just throwing it out.

    I'm sure in the end Mark will do what's best for getting the work done, let's face it there's no way to keep everyone happy about everything sooo...

    Also, before I go feed my face with more Pizza Hut... those offended people can go pound sand.
     
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