How Long Can Requesters Wait to Pay?

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  1. mturk4444

    mturk4444 User

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    How long can requesters wait to pay? I just found this website http://turkopticon.differenceengines.com/ - how long should someone wait to report the requester who you've done work for, that hasn't paid?
     
  2. ChrisM77

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    After 30 days unapproved HITs will automatically approve and pay. I wouldn't really worry with leaving TO for slow payers.
     
  3. swiftkick

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    If you are going to leave a report, make sure it is fair and accurate. Don't give them all bad reports because they are slow to pay, that is not appropriate use of Turkopticon.
     
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    You shouldn't leave a negative report unless they reject you "unfairly." If they take long to pay, there is an option to review just how long they take to pay. Just please don't leave a negative review because they took a while to pay. There's another script called "AUTO APPROVAL" time, that tells how how long each individual user takes to accept the hits, and if their not accepted by that time, the system automatically accepts them. This just depends on how the poster of the hits has the hits setup. I try to stick with hits that have an auto approval time of 1-7 days.
     
  5. naturegirl

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    To add to the general sentiment here, I leave excellent or good TO (regarding pay specifically) for those who pay more quickly than, say, 10 days. It's always been funny to me how people think requesters need to pay them in a hot second in order to deserve good TO. Amazon tells requesters they have 30 days, and there's not necessarily any way for them to know that workers often expect differently. So a good and fair requester (especially without much experience creating Turk tasks) may not even realize you think they're not living up to their end of the bargain, just because they wait a bit to pay.

    That being said, TO is useful for finding requesters that pay within days or hours, if that is your priority. I just don't think we should make fast pay the standard for being a good requester, and I don't think we should automatically interpret that someone who takes longer is unwilling to pay.

    Unfortunately, as we discussed in another thread recently, many other folks on TO don't think about any of what's said in this thread. That's how good requesters end up with invalid but poor TO. So props, OP, for at least giving it some thought. :)
     

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