Was working on a difficult to read card. Almost had all info typed in :juggle:, when I decided that I couldn't finish by 10 min time frame. At 9:47 min I returned the HIT. I got a message that the time allowed for my HIT had already timed out?
I'd return any card it was going to take me 10 minutes to do well before the 10 minutes was up. For whatever it's worth, you should be making at least a penny a minute doing Oscar based on what he pays. Whether or not he should pay more is beside the point. A minute and a half should be about right for most people. Faster if it's a really simple card, but I wouldn't believe anyone who said they can do one in less than a minute very often. Certainly not on any consistent basis. It often takes time to get your bearings on what exactly is on the card.
Did the message looked like this? It's because your PC clock is slow by more than 13 seconds. The HIT timer depends on your system time. Start by setting your time forward 1 minute first. Now, there's a possibility of forward time, that is, when you accept a HIT, it'll start at more than 00:00. Offset it by the same amount of time the HIT start with. I hope you got the basic idea behind this by now. Play with it until you get the timer start at 00:00. If you wish to skip all this mess and get to the solution fast, just sync your clock with the NTP server Amazon uses: us.pool.ntp.org and you'll be good.
This is a good explanation. There is a simpler one that is possible, too. It's just connection time, because it can take MTurk a few seconds to process your return, and by that time the timer may have already counted down. Either way, I don't think this happening on a single HIT is any kind of big deal to any requester.
abrahamrohithroy, ewd76, naturegirl thank you so much for your input. I do the data entry for his cards very quickly, but when I get a blurry one, I don't like to be beat. I try to see if I can match any info with info in searches. I've been able to complete a couple of cards like that. But I've started returning those blurry ones a lot quicker now. I also fill in as much info on them as possible, rather than return them too. They've been accepted without spaces filled in because I couldn't read it from the card. Yes, my message did look like that red box. I was thinking of the few seconds it takes for Mturk to process my submission too. That could be a reason. I'll keep in mind about setting the clock, syncing, etc. But I've been able to submit my HITS well in advance anyway. Take care.
