So, less than 50% of my combined HITs have been approved for the last 3 days or so. They're all just sitting in Pending . I try to mix up the people I work for as to avoid an issue like this. Any suggestions?
If you have Turkopticon, it will help you weed out those requesters who take a long time to approve HITs and also those who reject unfairly.
Do a whole lot more HITs for requesters you trust! There are certain requesters that use automatic methods of accepting HITs, and you usually get accepted/rejected within a few hours. A lot of the large volume better HITs, are faster payers. The tasks that pay the least for the most amount of work are usually what I see to be the ones that take a few weeks or more to approve. If you use the Turkopticon plug-in, you can see what other people rated their promptness to be, and read the comments. Data accisition HITs, to me, might be the slowest to pay. Other than that, there are a few requesters that just have a history of taking a long time to approve. The amount of approved HITs don't matter to many requesters at this time. So the amount of pending HITs isn't doing anything but slowing down how fast the money is coming in. The only thing that really ever does matter is the approval rate, so don't do 100s of HITs for someone you know nothing about.
The best thing for all of us to do is make it our mission to ask them (politely) to approve our work more quickly. It's bad enough we're working for bupkiss...the least they can do is approve us in a more timely fashion. They may have all the time in the world--we don't! We have bills to pay!
Hey Shego. Great suggestion. Any idea of how to accomplish this? I wish Amazon wouldn't make us wait 30 days.
I have over 100 hits pending. 12 approved. I'm going to go back and see if the ones who approved quickly have any HITS available.
Use the comment field in a HIT or send requesters messages. I don't understand your wish of 30 days at all.
I can see how Amazon wants to allow their Requesters time to review the work that is being done, especially those that put out 1,000s of HITs at a time. But, 30 days does seem excessive. For someone who works hours on a group of HITs, then waits a month to find out they're all rejected....well, that's the dumps.
The flip side is that the longer a requester goes without doing the approvals, the more likely they are to forget; in which case, once the time limit kicks in, everything is auto-approved, with no chance of rejection. I'd rather they approved more quickly though, and I do remind some of them when it drags on too long.
Help with turkopticon please ** Nevermind -I figured it out. I had to shut down FF and restart it and it worked. I can access the site and view everything, but I am having trouble downloading whatever it is needed to 'use' the site. I have tried about 5 times already. I have downloaded, allowed Firefox to install, and then my add-ons box shows - but there is no new add-on there. I have logged out of mTurk and back in also thinking it may work then. I have Firefox/3.5.2 Any help appreciated Thank you