Crowdflower and Spam hits on 12/2. Anyone actually do those Real Player hits?

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  1. Meg9

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    I noticed more than 5 different "Real Player" hits from Crowdflower that pay 1.50 each, and of course when you click them they come up with the "can't find this url" error message, I was wondering if anyone has actually done one of these this week?

    Nearly every Crowdflower hit I've come across today seems like a dead end or a violation of MTurk terms. I wish there were ways to eliminate them from the search results! There are so many of them, and very few of them seem legit.
     
  2. pieper

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    I haven't tried them...$1.50 to "just" download something? Sounded too good to be true, so skipped it.
     
  3. Meg9

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    Yeah, I should follow that rule from now on!
     
  4. clogan98

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    I learned that if they ask you to download anything, don't do it. I got mad about those ones the other day that wanted you to take a picture of your child with your webcam. WTF?
     
  5. Doc McPuffins

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    CrowdFlower aka CrapFlower is worse than Oscar. At least Oscar doesn't try to weasel free work out of people.
     
  6. Meg9

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    Isn't it funny? When I started on Mturk in october, I thought they were a big, credible requester because they were all over the place, but almost every hit I've seen from them is scammy in some way.
     

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