My first hard block. What should I do?

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  1. write2anand

    write2anand Member

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    I joined mturk on may 25, 2016. Total hit approved 6700, approval rate 99.6%.

    I got my first hard block 2 days ago (received email from mturk). The requester Crowd knowledge hard blocked me. I did 159 hits for Crowd knowledge and all were approved. Contacted the requester and he assured that he will reply in next 2 weeks and will remove the block (most probably). He said that I made mistakes in image sorting tasks.

    I am super nervous now. After how many blocks mturk suspends your account? Searched for this but could not find any concrete information.

    One more query- If requester will remove the block, will I be receiving email from mturk or not.

    Please guide me. Thank you very much.
     
  2. sathir

    sathir User

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    I too have received first hard block for doing just one hit for a requester 3 years ago (I forgot the requester name and hit) and received a warning mail from mturk and after that I was very careful working for new requester.

    mturk doesn't reveal any number of hard blocks to suspend an account. Some may say 3 or something but, not sure. By the way how did you join mturk? I heard they don't allow to join for international workers.

    When the requester remove the hard block you won't receive any email confirming that but, you will be allowed to work for the requester. But, my suggestion is to stick safe and secure your account.
     
  3. shafi

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    I heard few blocks within few months will lead to suspend your account. I recommend work carefully for 4 months to overcome this single block. always check turkopticon before working.
     

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