Who is "Special Words"?

Discussion in 'CastingWords' started by hapless, Aug 6, 2012.

  1. hapless

    hapless Guest

    This requester's HIT page looks much like a CastingWords HIT page:

    https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=260LVCNHMVHVTRG7QDB2E4J8FKQ021

    The text, layout, content, and style-guide links all appear to have been taken from a CastingWords HIT page.

    But this is not CastingWords.
    It's another requester named "Special Words".

    I've reported this to CastingWords in case they might want to check it out.
     
  2. hapless

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    Oops, I hadn't checked Turkopticon.
    Comments say "Special Words" is one of multiple names that this requester has used.
     
  3. Maggiemw

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    His so-called transcription hit has been reported to Mturk.

    His reviews of TO are just hilarious - or would be if the guy were not such a total creepy slimebag who may one day actually TOUCH sick people... What an awful idea.

    Apparently he's also been reported to the Dean at Tufts U. Hopefully they have an ethics committee.
     
  4. melissa71642

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    I let Mike and Nathan know that he's ripped off their template and has even had the nerve to leave the links to the Style Guide and grading guidelines for CW in there.
     
  5. Scott

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    That is very odd that whoever did this did not change the style guides. But what are they after? Free work to do the real casting words hits? Or just to give rejections?
     
  6. Whimsy

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    the audio's hosted somewhere else so i don't think it's cw audio. I haven't come across CW offering medical type transcription stuff, but I havent been looking a long time
     
  7. Lana

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    I would just steer clear of this one ... I did -> ONE <- HIT by this guy before I had TO installed (in fact, I hadn't even been on mturk for a month), and when he finally approved it, he left a note saying to please leave positive feedback on TO. I had just found that script, and left a fair review (at least, fair to my experience) and got BLASTED by a ton of people insulting me, and accusing me of being the requester himself.

    Just be careful!
     
  8. melissa71642

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    No, it's NOT CastingWords and they have reported him to Amazon as trying to disguise himself as CastingWords and of course, Amazon won't do anything about it.
     

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