Can't Find Good HITs? 10/21

hi trickydude! make sure to visit the thread in the general forum about getting to know your fellow turker

 

QUOTE "THIS HIT WILL PAY .50 CENTS"...

I have already done this survey, so can't do it again. Here is my question......

Right there on the very top of left page it says "$1.00" only after you open survey, it says .50 cents. Is this legal/good to go? Seems pissy to me.

 

"Researchers at the University of Rochester would like you to complete a follow up survey to the "Happiness in Relationships" hit from 2yrs ago."
Seriously?
I can't tell you with any certainty what I did last week...

 

Short survey about choices for the future
50 cents
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=AB44G6LQGF13J

done under 3 minutes

 

Answer a survey and practice recognizing musical intervals (QUALIFICATION AUTOGRANTED) - Philip Pavlik Jr. - $3.00/~15min - (>95%, >50, NewUser is 1)

 

All of mine were accepted and paid too, but they still blocked me with no reason why.

 

Thanks, that's the fastest money I've made all day

 

The java part is not working for me, keeps crashing :0

 

Damn, was in the middle of it and it closed, now it won't let me do it again... grrrr

 

It doesn't detect Java and I have Java. Something's wrong. Would have been nice though.

 

I'm actually running Linux. Wouldn't work in Chrome but worked for me in Firefox.

 

I would be EXTREMELY careful doing ProductRnR they are by far the sleaziest requester on mTurk and they will block you without a bit of notice and you can email them all you want they will never respond. Many, many, many people have done thousands upon thousands of their HITs only to be mass rejected and blocked with no warning whatsoever.

 

That was kind of fun - considering all I know about music is what I like and what I don't, it was surprisingly easy as well.

 

I have that problem with chrome sometimes too, had to do this HIT in safari and it worked.

 

Same thing here. Which distro are you running?

 

I said the exact same thing early this morning in the thread since we have a lot of new people.. trying to put the warning out there I would hate to see people get burned

 

I was lucky in that I only got a hard block and no mass reject, but other people have been fucked even harder

They are to be treated with caution to say the very least, and if I were you I would steer well clear.

 

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2SFXP3TVOK5U3HU73YHETZG1UWA52Q
says 10 cents, but has a bonus of 5 cents for saying you're from the US, you might actually have to be from the US, not sure, but it takes 20 seconds to do, if that
95% approval

 

do i need audio? i'm watching football

 

I was lucky with only a block as well. Nearly 100 HITs done, 2 wrong and that earned me a hard block. Quite frankly I'm glad they blocked me I suppose it's better than being mass rejected and having your approval rating plummet so low you can no longer Turk.

I've emailed them I don't know how many times now asking the block to be removed, never heard a word back.