Oscar Smith HIT Help Thread Reloaded by Riaz for New Oscar HIT Fans

Discussion in 'Oscar Smith' started by riazthemturkhelper, Jun 11, 2013.

  1. classic kars

    classic kars New Member

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    What does it mean when the HIT asks you to crop the photo or logo? Are we to copy and paste it somewhere? Just started today and trying to figure this all out. Thanks.
     
  2. gopher

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    If you place your cursor on the image and drag it to another point on the image, it makes a box that can be adjusted to enclose the logo. If you start your box out wrong and want to start over, just click the image anywhere. It will disappear and you can start over dragging to make a new box. That is all that is required for cropping. There is nothing that you need to copy or paste.
     
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  3. gopher

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    7. What if you are faced with a scenario like this?

    800.800.8000
    Direct Dial/Fax 888.888.8888

    Would you type it like this?

    work: 800.800.8000
    fax: 888.888.8888
    work: 888.888.8888
     
  4. ewd76

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    That's what I would do.
     
  5. vaas

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    i am totally confused. how people work for 0.02$/hit. It takes me 3 mins to complete.
    In the beginning i take more of this hits to revoke my approval rate. now i won't touch on it.

    What are the criteria's to get trusted worker qualification of him.


    Still i have one doubt. i don't how fast you people are working. i take minimum 3 mins per card.

    means 20 hit / hour. even if i am trusted worker 1$/hr is how fair pay.
     
  6. gopher

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    When I first started doing this, I averaged 3 minutes and 15 seconds per USA business card. International cards posed to be a severe handicap at 8 to 9 minutes per card. Now I can whiz through USA cards in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with difficult ones at 2 minutes and 15 seconds up to 3 minutes. International cards still kick my butt between 3 to 7 minutes depending on the text and country. I cringe on the days that I get a lot of international ones.

    As for myself, I still have a few bugs to work out to keep my ratings high. I know my typing accuracy isn't a factor, but getting the right information to where it is expected is or the cropping of the logo. I now consider myself a little higher than a newbie, but far from being an expert. I'm humbled at every HIT when I see my score going down.

    Initially, I was afraid to do anything else but Oscars. I knew I wasn't making very much per hour. That didn't matter to me. It beats playing online games hands down and I do get rewarded for my efforts. I wanted the experience and stats. I'm guessing that your WPM is averaging around 20 for straight text? I type 60+ for text, but even higher when I am comfortable with the data entry fields and content. Practice will help. Patience is a must. Don't expect to get rich off of OS. Most HITs on MTurk are purposefully designed to NOT pay minimum wage. Even if you elect to not do HITs because of the pay, there's 1000's of people willing and desperate for the smallest morsel of income that will accept and do them regardless of how long it takes. Pay your dues and work your way up the ladder to the higher paying tiers and qualifications and branch out from there. There are no shortcuts here.

    To get the Trusted Worker Qualification, here's what I know:
    1. Do a minimum of 500 HITs
    2. Have a score equal to or greater than 90
    3. Request the qualification (off the Qualifications tab or an available HIT)
    4. Message Oscar Smith when you have met the above criteria. You will get a reply link to click for OS to evaluate you.

    Beyond that, I can't help you. I'm missing #2 at this point and am looking for all the help I can find to bring it back up to where it needs to be before clicking the link for evaluation.

    I'm still a newbie at posting, but I'll figure it out eventually. :D
     
  7. ennaira

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    hi there,
    There are really fast typist out there, for me it's approximately one minute per card. Been a trusted worker for nearly 2 years now (from Oct 2011 to be exact). Oscar S. sent emailed a link that I am qualified to work for his 5 cents hits.
     
  8. ewd76

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    Oscar Smith rating gets better if you don't do those hits for a while. Has anyone else noticed this?
     
  9. uknome

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    I noticed that too. I'd been at 91, for nearly a month. Took a 2-3 week break, and came back to a 93. I know it isn't much of a jump, but still: My score went up.
     
  10. ennaira

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    There's a day when I did only 5 hits and my score went up by 2 points the next day...:)
     
  11. sathir

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    I think these scoring were the gimmics done by Oscar. I have 92 for about a month time and I requested for Trusted worker. Next day onwards my scoring gone to 85 and it grows to 87, 89 and so....

    I don't surprise or scared or worried about it. Because, Oscar will not anymore give any opportunity for trusted worker and whenever a worker ask for it he will just ignore and reduce our scoring intentionally. But, anyway I want to make my work perfect and so I have cleared some doubts with you.

    Thanks a lot for your time and effort.
     
  12. prakash

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    Riaz are you retarded that you're working on the penny monger oscar smith's hit. If I ever meet oscar smith, I will kick his ass for taking advantage of poor chaps like you and other indian turkers. Nothing to proud of for working for oscar smith. grow up man and have some dignity.
     
  13. LadyBug

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    No I haven't noticed that. Several months ago when I would do Oscar's, my score would get better the more I did them. It was easy to keep it at 97. But now I struggle to keep it at 90. I had it at 91 a week ago and then did 100 HIT's, and it went down to 83. I really do not understand. I am not really doing anything differently than before.
     
  14. chaos

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    Even if it only takes one minute per card, and you're doing the 5 cent ones, that is still only $3.00 per hour. That is why Oscar Smith is a joke
     
  15. ennaira

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    hi chaos,
    I am doing $8-10 an hour FYI in my regular turking unless there are no hits and I have to bear Oscar Smith's 5 cents, I hate to admit yes it's like slavery kind of work. So Oscar is an option for me when there is nothing to do.
     
  16. wiggle81

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    Oscar Smith Multiple locations on card

    What do you do if their are multiple location addresses on the business card? Just pick one?
     
  17. roon83

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    Dignity is all fine and dandy but many higher paying jobs require better skills. Improving the skills and looking for a real job is a better option IMO.
     
  18. reester

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    I can't even get past his "training" card- it says "title", the card says "Information Designer", I type in "Information Designer" and it says I am wrong, and the correct answer is...."Information Designer".

    It's not worth the headache so far, and I've only made a pair of attempts.
     

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