How to Complete More HITS at Once

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  1. Aimee30

    Aimee30 Member

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    To be able to complete HITS faster and at a higher quality--all it takes is more than one browser or open browser to do them in. i find that if I have two Mechanical Turk browser windows open, I can complete both higher paying and lower paying tasks at the same time.
     
  2. SuzyQ

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    This works OK as long as you have enough time to do both hits. Some of them seem really simple until you start getting involved and realize they've been farmed out to Turkers for a reason. Finding names, addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, etc. for a variety of businesses, public information officers, etc. seems like an easy task, but I've had to return several of them because 10 minutes was not enough time to dig up all the information required. Many sites didn't have all the information listed in a prominent place and you'd have to start searching in alternate locations. Sometimes I start a hit first before I formally accept it -- then I have a few minutes head start on the timer.
     
  3. aheismann

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    I have also gone through and accepted a group of hits with longer time limits and then gone back and completed. It allows me to make a little to do list. Especially for ones where they need 10 or 15 things done.
     
  4. Kinguk

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    I never thought of opening up two browser windows, I'll have to give that a try.
     
  5. Andy

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    I have a two monitor setup so it works nicely as well. I want to get three!
     
  6. gman9976

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    A faster PC will do wonders on getting the lower paying new hits that are always popping up.People are just waiting to hit on those.
     
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    great idea
     
  8. pegandoc

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    Sometimes I have a hard enough time just doing one hit at a time. My internet isn't as fast as it should be.
     
  9. u0402215

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    I'd think it's not so much a faster PC but a faster Internet connection that'd be more useful for getting these HITs ... I guess (I don't know for sure) if your internet connection's slow than there's a greater time lag between the time you hit the 'accept' button and the time your accept request reaches the MTurk server, by which time the accept request of some other guy viewing the same HIT would have reached MTurk's server first and then the server would assign that HIT to this other guy even though he might in fact have clicked on the request button later than you did. Oh and a faster internet connection means that the accept button appears earlier on your screen so you get to click on it earlier as well.
     
  10. aderbalito

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    Most of teh HITs have sufficient time for completing it. So it`s easy to accept and complete more than 3 or 4 HITs at the same time.
     

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