Can't Find Great HITs? 4/11

The thing was, he asked for website addresses, but the last from the batch couldn't be found, and I submitted a comment for these that there was no website. He rejected those. This was his response to this:

I can see about 70 HITs matching your worker ID. Of those I believe I have
rejected 9 that did not supply a web address. I agree it is unfortunate if
no website exists but I cannot pay for a negative result otherwise workers
would submit more negative results that I would need to verify whether they
were correct or not...which defeats the purpose of using the MT platform. I
will be more explicit in future to state that no payment is made for null
results.

He offered me to do 200 HITs to offset the 9 rejections.

 

It is a ratio 1/2001 = .00049... or 0.049% That is the point your rejection rate is rounded back down to 0%.

 

Doing these caption Redwood's. Let's see how many I can do before my eyes fall out of their sockets.

 

The HITs can't be done "right" because I had to provide web addresses from companies, but these ones didn't have any.

 

You'll probably get cut off before that. They usually only let me do 5-10 at a time.

 

What do you mean...he wants you to do 200 more hits for free so he's reverse the rejections...?? Wow that's really fishy. He should KNOW that there would be addresses that couldn't be found. What an ASS.

I believe you didn't do them wrong at all, and now he's trying to bribe you.

This is why I won't do the HITs where some answers are subjective anymore- it really sucks!

 

Thanks! I'll figure it out in the morning. Almost midnight and I need chopsticks to keep my eyes open

 

what was the requester?

 

I forgot to look at the timer, but it took around 3 mins. - near perfect TO -

Title: Academic Survey: Web Use and Attitudes -- 30 questions -- approx. 3-5 minutes
Requester: Northwestern Univ. Demography of Diversity Project [A3I36K50I0O7LI] (TO)
Description: 30 Questions; approx. 3-5 minutes.
Reward: $0.26
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 98, Location is US
Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=260LVCNHMVHVOR0WX8B2E4J9HKU02Z

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I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way. It's kind of unfair, but maybe I should have just returned these ones. No, he is going to pay me for those 200 HITs, with his math that will offset the rejections So he is not going to reverse them)

 

I've done 40 and nothing yet.

 

So, you're being punished for something that wasn't your fault even though you did the work and could not find the results that didn't even exist? That's beyond effed up.

 

God that drives me nuts. Why do they do this!

 

Oh that's shady.

You are kind of between a rock and a hard place. You can contact him and risk a block technically. I would probably suggest it would be in good faith for him to reverse all rejections due to this and update his link instructions accordingly.

 

If you haven't yet, please leave TO for this guy so the rest of us know to avoid him. How horrible.

 

David Nelson

 

You want to know where I'd tell him to cram his 200 HITs?

 

Cut off at 46. Sigh. :/

 

I already did, as soon as I saw the rejections

 

He should SAY in the HIT that if you can't find an address to return it. Then at least you know you will be wasting some of your time...but to pull this. Very lowball.