What the heck is going on with all the bad links from the CW site lately? Especially with expedited hits, I'm noticing a LOT of links where it leads to nothing but a "Invalid URL parameters" and "Your request was not completed successfully." I tried emailing CW with no answer. Is someone somewhere just screwing up or are they trying to keep some of us from working on these hits? This is getting really frustrating.
At least on the expediteds, they seem to show back up with the correct link. I suspect that the hits are posting on turkers.castingwords.com before they actually are submitted to Mturk or something like that. But you're right, it's weird.
CW's are not the only HITs that end up with those messages sometimes. I've also gotten the exact same ones (same appearance and everything) on certain CrowdSource HITs. That means, to me, that it is some internal MTurk issue, and not specific to CW, although possibly just affecting CW more frequently lately. So I'm guessing it's a screwup indeed, but unclear whether it's MTurk's problem or a combo of HIT coding that CS or CW prefers but that doesn't work with MTurk's. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with either CW or CS trying to stop anyone from working on their stuff. (I'm also PMing you, Zinni, relatedly.)
I've only noticed this with CW, and it's getting annoying. I get all excited because I think I've snagged an Expedited HIT only to get that stupid message. Grrr!