Some of these points I'm about to bring out have probably been said time and again but I think they bear repeating; Dear Valued Requesters; We want to perform to the best of our abilities for you. Sometimes it's difficult. We need your guidance, trust and understanding. I'm listing a few points that I know would help most of us immensely if you could just spare a moment to read and consider them carefully. 1. Please respond to our questions as soon as possible, give credit where it's due and treat us with the dignity and respect you want for yourselves. Ignoring our emails hurts you just as much as it does us. If we don't know what you want, we cannot give it to you. 2. Include instructions that are precise, succinct and easy to understand. We need to know exactly what you want, how you want us to accomplish the task and most importantly, what to do if the task cannot be accomplished for whatever unforeseen reason. 3. If you want us to return tasks when the information you seek cannot be found, please consider compensating us instead, for our time and attention. For example: You are paying 0.10 per hit for email information that may often be impossible or time consuming to locate. Instead of insisting we return a hit we have already spent 10 minutes trying to fulfill, offer a 0.05 payment for taking the time to search and add a 0.05 bonus if we actually find what it is you're looking for. Nobody wants to work for free. You don't. Why should we? 4. Allow enough time to finish surveys etc. Nothing is more annoying or unfair than being told to "take our time" on a survey you claim only takes ten minutes, that actually takes twenty and you've allotted us fifteen. No doubt you will use the research whether you paid us for it or not; so please give us enough time to give the thoughtful answers you expect of us. Otherwise your results will be sketchy because our fear of not being able to complete the survey in time to input the code before the hit expires, will force us to give less than honest answers. 5. You get what you pay for. Work that pays less than 0.10 per hit should never be rejected--especially if it's a 0.00-0.05 "reward" amount. You want good work? Pay for good work. After all, you have the power to reject it. It's been argued that higher pay doesn't guarantee better results. This statement is simply not true. Weed out the suckers by rejecting flimsy work and those ones will flee to tasks from other requesters that may not pay as much, but are less demanding. Good work deserves good pay. This isn't a Honduran sweatshop. In America, we can't exist on a $2.40 an hour pay scale. You're already saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by using the Mturk workforce--share the wealth! Or, you could always pay a professional to write your 500 word article that you expect in two hours the $150 minimum he will charge you for quality prose at the last minute with no time to research or revise. Anyone else care to chime in?