I don't know why this never occurred to me before, but for any of you that have had problems not being able to Page Monitor very many pages without exceeding mturk's limit, you might try disabling false availabilities script if you have it installed. Whenever you load a full search page on mturk, that script hits all 10 links to find out whether you can actually view it or not. Handy for its purpose, but if you have PM going and you start flipping through pages or reloading a full search, you cap out pretty quickly.
Thanks for posting this. I wondered why my Page Monitor would go off sometimes and when I went to check it out, I would see the "you have exeeded" message
Is there any need for the fake availability script anymore? I only used it for the search engine rankings, but now that they've gone to the dark side its not really necessary anymore. Or is there other HITs you use them for?
This is what I got when I emailed them about a site that listed the restaurant as open, but when I looked at the fb account there had been no activity since 2011. "If you look at the flow chart in the training guide (https://s3.amazonaws.com/Taste-of-the-World/mturk_training_guide.html), it says to stop after finding an official website and base your decision on whether the location is listed or not. However, when there is only one location (or only a few), it helps to have other signals from social media and third party sites."
how in tarnation do you get so many so fast? That's it, I will be in these threads constantly for the next week. 497 approved 7 pending
Title: Survey - college entrance exams Requester: Jeff Olson [A2HN38GUC0CZ3A] (TO) Description: Complete a brief survey - feedback on college entrance exams - approx. 5-7 minutes Reward: $0.50 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95, Location is US Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2TO02AOO2GMMFFN65HJCR6JII3055V [size=-2]Powered by non-amazonian script monkeys ��[/size] Not sure if repost, but yea. ~3 mins with fast skim reading
When I first started two weeks ago, I was doing maybe 10-30 hits a day, then worked up to about 100. Now I'm doing 350-450 on average. Today I only managed to get in 100 because it was slow. Doing batches to build my numbers, since 5000 seems to be the number to hit.
Yeah, I always try to verify when it's a single location mom and pop. I just had another one about 20 minutes ago, it had a really nice functional website but when I pulled up the Facebook they had closed in March and and announced it there. I figure it may not be "strictly necessary" but a lot of these places don't last long and TOTW can't mind too much, I've been doing them this way all along, finding a bunch that are actually closed and they granted then bumped up my qual. If it were wrong I doubt I'd be doing any TOTW today.
Just make it a goal to hit a certain number every day so you're building numbers and making some money and stick to HITs that pay at least 0.10/min. Good luck! I'm still learning, myself, so we'll see how things go.
It's the weekend, so I'm doing just about...nothing. =P Watching a stand up recording right now and I felt like checking in to see what the forum was up to.
My pending HITs was so broken that I thought I had 80 dollars less pending than what I actually had. It kinda feels like I just won free money
Title: short psychology study Requester: Sanne Nauts [A346FMRRGZ4HI8] (TO) Description: 10 minute psychology study Reward: $0.90 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 97, Location is US Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2PBXCNHMVHVOSKFPHTT7EJ7ANYX13L [size=-2]Powered by non-amazonian script monkeys [/size] Probably a repost, but good TO, and kind of fun survey, took me 12 minutes It does open up a Java applet that takes up the whole screen, so make sure to write down your mturk id on a piece of paper