Has anyone had any experience with John Klevin. He was rather mean, and did not abide by his own criteria in my opinion.
No, but I have had bad experiences with some one . I do not remember having worked for him, but I have had an experience with another requestor where my work got rejected saying that the article was too short. I went by the word count they suggested, checked it in MS Word and recheked it at wordcounttool.com, and it was above the required limit, still had the article rejected. I dont know what to do in such cases where they refuse to pay you on such grounds?
Hi Sonica: I looked on the site and could not find any information. Maybe Andy knows, but if not, maybe you should ask amazon (aka mturk). They have been very good about responding to my questions. Good luck. BTW who did that to you? If I might be so bold as to ask.
The same thing happened to me once, but it was ages ago. If you still have your article, try Googling some text from it to see if the requester took your article and used it anyway after rejecting it. If you find it being used on some website, contact Amazon and report the requester for fraud. I did so in my case, and they banned the requester. Also, sometimes with requesters I'm not sure I can trust, I'll take a screenshot of the HIT before doing it. Then later on if I need evidence of the exact instructions, I have it. In one case, I had a $5 HIT rejected for no clear reason, contacted the requester and was told I didn't follow the instructions, then I sent them the screenshot as evidence that I did, indeed, follow the instructions exactly as stated. The requester was so apologetic that they paid me a $10 bonus -- $5 for the original HIT, and $5 to make up for their mistake.
This is why some sort of rating system is in order. I am very tentative to do some hits since I am afraid of putting in the time and being rejected.
Thanks for sharing this info. Hi Ergo, Thanks for sharing this information. I was not aware that you can take up this issue with mturk. I have forgotten the title of the article, but I surely do remember the requestor who rejected the hit. Another issue I have is when requestors say rewrite the article, they do not clearly mention whether it is to be a fresh article or a spin on the original. If they want a new article, why should they say rewrite or include their own article in the hit. What is your opinion?
I don't do many articles as I don't like a lot of the people who commission them, but I've always understood rewriting to mean changing the wording of the original. Generally the idea is that the rewritten article needs to be different enough from the source that search engines will classify it as unique content. If a requester expects something more than that, they need to be more specific in the description.