Can't find good HITs? 10/17

YES YES YES!!! Maggie Xiong approved all my hits from yesterday. I took a HUGE gamble because she had no TO, simple/3 second "does this describe the image?" I could have seriously screwed the pooch on this one, because I was at about 700 complete, then took gamble, and did 480 hits for them!!! All approved!! WOO HOO, put me over 1100 hits!

Now, on another note, I only did like 4 surveys over the weekend, and got a "warning" email from amazon, more or less saying-"you've been slacking off, and we will terminate you if you don't participate more". So, obviously I will dedicate more time to turking, anyone else ever get an email like that? ((Newbie, only turked about 25 days so far))

 

did it take you 20 min or more?

 

That is odd. I have only been going for a 2 and a half months. I only turk a few days a week and even took a week off last week for work travel. Never got any emails.

 

I'm still going on it. But you have to watch a mandatory video that is 12 mins long, so yes I expect it will end up being 20 mins total.

 

I've never heard of anything like that before. I didn't Turk at all for over 2 and a half years and never got an email.

 

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=AHNLZJVJZPPDQ
Study on Food Choice (About 10 Minutes to Complete)
Requester: Cornell Hotel School of Administration Reward: $0.50 per HIT
EDIT ~ 5 minutes

 

I think one of her turker buddies is doing a little prank on her! lol

 

I am doing the Liat Amram hits now and I did some yesterday. I haven't seen any Liat Amram hits for a while but I remember it taking at least a week to pay.

 

Nope, And I would like to see a screenshot of the one that you got. Could be phishing for information or could be legit.

 

NEWB here again....copy/paste of email sent to me.....(I hope this doesn't violate any terms of service here on forum) ALSO---MY "performance is great, IE. Hits submitted 100%, approved 100%, rejected 0%

We are writing to let you know that we’ve noticed a change in your performance on the Mechanical Turk marketplace. This change puts your Mechanical Turk account at risk.

We hope you will take this notice as an opportunity to improve your performance so that you can maintain your status. However, if your performance does not improve, your account may be suspended.

Best Regards,

 

Kind of vague. Your "performance" suggests that maybe you got soft banned from more than a couple requesters.

You should follow up with them for the details...

 

Right.....

Never seen this before.

 

Have you gotten a lot of jobs rejected? To me "performance" may be referring to the quality of work and not quantity.

 

What was the email address that you received that from?

 

Ok done now. It took me 17 mins, but if you get the full bonus you earn a total of $3 so it's worth it.

 

This HIT took me 15 minutes 26 seconds, and I only got one bonus question right. There was just so much information presented so dryly in the video, but still a great HIT.

 

Looks like people are jumping into these email hits with me

 

How much money have you made today?

 

hmmm, have you been blocked by any requesters? That's mostly what it sounds like to me.

 

Here is where it came from,,,seems legit to me, but really, as a newb, what the hell do I know? (not much)

Amazon.com Customer Service <cust.service03@amazon.com>