Terrible. Just terrible. I checked his TO ratings and was skeptical, but yesterday with the shortage of good work, I decided to test out his email HIT (since at the moment it's the biggest bulk HIT and might be decent filler work)... All three (remember, I was testing to stay on the safe side) of the HITs I did, all which I am confident in completing accurately, were rejected. Get off of mturk, Sebastian
I was burned by doing Sebastian Darr hits some time back. You can read my rants about him in one of the other Sebastian Darr threads. He's personally responsible for over a third of my rejections. It's a shame, because I don't even care about the money all that much; I like doing research HITs and was willing to put in 5 or 10 minutes worth of searching for 2 cents (which is what he was paying back then). Having what I am certain is good quality work rejected because his approval process is messed up, though, really frosts my cookies, and I'm religiously committed to never doing another Sebastian Darr HIT for the rest of my life. His HITs are for the unwary and inexperienced. Some of them will get done, but the savvy (and therefore experienced) Turkers avoid him, which means he'll get work of middling quality done slowly, rather than being able to put up 10,000 HITs and having them done in a day, which is what happens for good requesters.
Plus rejects known emails. His emails he approves MUST have the persons first AND last name in the email. e.g. JOHN.DOE@University.edu It can't be JDoe, DoeJ, ProfessorDoe, JDProfessor, and has to be @ a university address. can't be a "free" account.. I figured this out from the few rejects I got, and reading his hit again. He rejected a JDoe@university.edu account of a college proffessor I knew!
TO's Hi! I am new here and was wondering how you can find out what a requesters TO is? Is that public info somewhere on the amazon site? Also, what does TO stand for? Thanks for any info you can give me!
TO stands for Turk Opticon. http://turkopticon.differenceengines.com/ Navigate to this link and download it. It will show some red or blue triangle near the name of the requester. When you click it, it will show the ratings by other turkers for this requester.
I did just 1 and luckily got approved. Its better to stay away from Sebastian. Sheer waste of time ..... But still the available hits are reducing .. may be some newbies are doing them...
