So I was doing some of the Tweet Topic Selection batch HITS and was wondering why someone would want us to do that? If someone has to go through and approve and check work then why have us do it in the first place? I guess what I am trying to understand is if they are going to go through and check everything why pay some to do it?
Some of the same tweets keep reappearing in the hits, so the requester is probably using either majority rules or gold standard questions to check for scammers. This guy seems to have picked up on the unwritten rules of turking pretty quickly. I'm guessing a worker has to fuck up consistently rather than just once before he decides your work isn't up to par, and that then he'll just take your qualification away rather than socking you with rejections. Edited to add: I hope this guy becomes as regular a poster as Oscar. I could cheerfully work these a couple of hours every day.
They usually give the HIT to more than one person. Usually 3. Then if 2/3 say one thing, the odd one out is deemed "wrong" and rejected. They'll also put in some HITs that they already know the answer to. If you get those wrong you're rejected, if you get too many wrong they block you and/or take away the qualifications. Sometimes when they put on "master" qualifications they just approve all of them. Or have fewer of the test HITs.
And are you referring to this guy? Praveen Bommannavar If so, how'd you get the qualification? Or is it a separate requester? If so, who? They sound like good HITs.
request a qualification and you can contact him letting him know. He should approve within a few hours. and he responded to me in about 30 minutes yesterday
Praveen, yes. You just ask for the qualification, but some batches require high stats to do them, too.
I don't think he's using rejections. A lot of these are subjective, so it's impossible to always be in the majority in all of your calls, but I haven't gotten a rejection yet. He's probably just going to take away qualifications from people whose work he considers sub-par. I was really leery of these at first, but my spidey sense has stopped tingling.
Thanks for the replies. Makes a little more sense to me now. I was referring to Praveen. I emailed him a question about one of the tweets and he responded in about 10 minutes to let me know that I was right on my assumption and concerns. Mine havent been approved yet but I so far he seems like a great poster.
Sometimes you get something like "I want a gymnast's body!" Gymnastics is an Olympic event, and people were competing in gymnastics on that day, but was the tweeter talking about the Olympics or about his personal exercise regime? Stuff like that. Or this one I just came across: My dog The Moose is an Gold medalist in Olympian Tree peeing. Great form. Excellent technique. It's not really about the Olympics, but yet it sort of is.