Sebastian Darr REJECTED ALL MY HITs

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  1. callltb

    callltb New Member

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    Yesterday I logged in mturk and I found that he rejected all my hits. So my current approved hits percent ratio is 33.26%, I did my job with honesty. Now I am not able to perform any hits:)mad:) because of my approved % is <90.

    Need help.
     
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  2. BMW-M3

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    Seek refuge in Oscar Smith hits.

    How many hits have you submitted until now?
     
  3. riazthemturkhelper

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    Yes the only 30 minute auto approval HITS - Oscar HITs... Go for it. Very sad to hear that. If you have read about Sebastian Darr Reviews you won't have done the hits by this bad requester. Are you using the TurkOpticon (TO) Tools?
     
  4. govindraj

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    Me too.... Dont ever touch sebastian darr....To be rescued i thing hits like dolores labs, oscar smith, and qualitywebsite reviews would help...
     
  5. chuck_h

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    Avoid Sebastian Darr HITs!

    I will add my agreement to this discussion. I just watched my approval rate go from 96.8% to 94.7% because of Sebastian Darr's broken approval process. He rejected 7 of 11 HITs so far, and I've still got another 12 in his queue. I shudder to think what my approval rate will be once he's done.

    The damage to your online reputation is not worth the 2 cents you might gain from working a Sebastian Darr task.

    I only wish I'd read this thread before I made the mistake of working Sebastian Darr's HITs.

    In summary, avoid Sebastian Darr HITs like the plague!
     
  6. interneteditor

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    I did two Sebastian Darr hits before I got Turkopticon and stopped. I am very lucky, he approved both of them but I am not risking doing any more in case he was just trying to "suck in a newbie".
     
  7. Spidermmm

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    Did you use turkopticon tool are not. Because he is very bad requester and the reviews also. Only way to boost ur Percentage is oscar hits...
     
  8. Premchand

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    I did some 5 or 6 hits from him and all got accepted. i didn't know about that requester and its really hard to find out the email id's( for 0.02 $).. better not to do..
     
  9. chuck_h

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    Avoid Sebastian Darr HITs! (Part 2)

    Well, the other shoe dropped regarding the HITs I did for Sebastian Darr.

    Out of 23 HITs I did for Sebastian Darr, 11 were rejected, and 10 of those with the reason of either "name&email do not match" or "Name and email do not match". This is a 47% rejection rate.

    Now, the truth is, I didn't do the Sebastian Darr HITs for the money, (which is a pittance) but because I thought it was an interesting challenge. I even had a whole methodology, which I'll post here if anyone cares to read it. The point is, I worked Sebastian Darr's HITs as carefully and as diligently as I knew how, and I'm absolutely certain that I didn't make that many mistakes.

    The damage to my online rating from the rejections of the HITs I did for Sebastian Darr, though, is what truly infuriates me. With 11 rejections from Sebastian Darr, my approval rate has dropped to 93.9% , which means that a number of profitable HITs I have worked on in the past are no longer available to me. I'm going to have to complete several dozens of HITs perfectly, without error, to get back to the 96%+ rating I had before I began doing Sebastian Darr's HITs. :mad:

    Are we allowed to use profanity here? I have several choice English vulgarities and obscenities I'd like to use regarding Sebastian Darr, and since I've discovered he's a German doctor and the CMO at ResearchGate, I'm tempted to learn how to swear in German just to curse Herr Doktor Darr in his own language.
     
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  10. Scott

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    I feel for you - I need to do about 1800 to get back to 95%as I had a mass rejection my a Req in 2006 - that drove me away from the site for a few years as few if any hits were open then.

    That was about 200+ hits at 2-3c each when I had only submitted about 2500~ at the time. Now I am at 92% -
     
  11. Scott

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    But I admit - I havent hard a rejection from Sebastian as of yet.. So I have no complaints about him.
    But I have about 6th grade knowedge of German. However, I still cant do the German Hits as I dont have a DE flag.
     
  12. chuck_h

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    I had not had any rejections from Sebastian Darr previously, and had done about 16 HITs from July 5-7 with a 100% approval rating. The reason I did so few was because working on Sebastian Darr's HITs was frustrating and time-consuming.

    Then I had my Darr-mageddon on July 12, as I've described earlier. I worked a total of 23 Sebastian Darr HITs only to have nearly half of them rejected for the name of the researcher and E-mail not matching. (Which is ridiculous and a stupid newbie mistake I would not have made, at least not so frequently.)

    If you want to gamble your online reputation working on Sebastian Darr HITs, more power to you. I am done with Herr Doktor Darr, myself.
     
  13. Scott

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    Sebastian just fubared by approval rating. - I found the emails on the univerites websites themselves.
    I got "not correct email" - which is a lie. No response from him. so I am back down low again. all thanks to him.
     
  14. Noliah

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    Looks to me as if he has some personal failings or frustrations and he needs to take his anger out on those who have no way of "fighting" back face to face.

    Either that or he's just anal beyond belief.

    *puts fake med diploma away*:p:
     
  15. chuck_h

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    I disagree. I think something's broken in Sebastian Darr's approval process, probably the way he checks the data he gathers. It's also possible he's not using the bulk approval/rejection tools correctly.

    Similarly to Scott's posting above, most of the E-mail addresses I submitted to Sebastian Darr were taken directly from university Web sites, because I had a whole method I was using rather than his built-in searches, (which don't work very well) and which is also why I have such a high confidence that the work I did for him was improperly rejected.

    As I've also said, I was doing Sebastian Darr's HITs primarily for the challenge, because there's no way 5-10 minutes (or more) of searching is worth 2 cents.

    At any rate, I learned my lesson, and unless he seriously upped the payment per hit and explained why the HITs I submitted were rejected, I wouldn't do another second's worth of work for Sebastian Darr.

    (Lastly, Sebastian Darr should learn not to piss off people who are skilled at writing SEO-optimized content, as I've noticed that this forum shows up as the second result when you do a US Google search for "Sebastian Darr" ;) It only shows up as the sixth result on the Google.de site, though.)
     
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  16. sathir

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    Thanks for your valuable sharing.

    Everybody would be aware of this requester and I appreceate you for the word you wrote here
    Avoid Like "Plague".
     
  17. sathir

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    As many friends replied here... I too suggest to work in Oscar Smith's hits.

    I have no rejections working in his hits. I have crossed more than 20k working for Oscar Smith. Only thing you should not worry about the marks he gives you for his work.
    I am maintaining not less than 85% requested for upgrading to work in his 0.05 hits but, no response from his end.
    Can any one help me how to get upgraded for Oscar Smith's hits.
     
  18. bootybitch

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    Yeah, that's because he doesn't check it at all. He knows noobs and overseas workers are limited on options and will usually take what they can get. He gets the work done and mass rejects most if not all and therefore doesn't have to pay. The rest he can afford to pay for cuz hey, he just got at least 2/3 of his work done for free, and the rest are only pennies.
     
  19. shariqueahmer

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    There are many bad requesters in mturk who reject a lot of hits and when turkers know about them, they change their names and design and come back again on mturk to deceive many more people. it's best just to understand their modus operandi and get smart.
     
  20. Scott

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    Is it me or are them hits all gone??
     

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