This is a thread for users who have done the tutorial and received a qualification for the Crisis Mapping Project to communicate about questions, issues, or bugs regarding our HITs. Please discuss only general issues around the interface and experience. Please do not discuss the actual work you’re doing other than in the HIT itself. If you are unsure if your comment / question is appropriate, feel free to send me a private message. The Crisis Mapping HITs will be posted at scheduled times with a short expiration so that everyone can get online and be connected at the same time. The bonus payment scale is shown to you as you work and updated continuously, as long as you are not disconnected or idle. The base payment will be paid shortly after the task is done, and the bonus should be paid usually within 24 hours. If you experience any problems loading the task, feel free to try the HIT in a different browser. However, avoid having the HIT open at the same time in multiple browsers or you may run into issues with calculating your payment properly. Our first scheduled session is a limited run today (June 18th) at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. The HITs will be available at the following link when posted: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?requesterId=A3RXXNTGSUSTQ9 If you don't manage to pick up a HIT today, don't worry - you will have a chance to do the task in the future. Please feel free to post any questions or concerns in this thread, or send me a PM for anything specific.
I managed to get to the HIT at exactly 2:00, but received a message that my screen resolution wasn't enough. That's hard to imagine since it's at 1366 x 768 and I've maximized the screen. Plus it worked fine when I did the tutorial. Help, please!
Sorry, the HIT filled up. We got more than enough workers for this trial run. Way more than we expected. We’re primarily using this run to shake out bugs. We’re going to run MANY more of these in the near future and we’ll be sure to notify you of them. Thanks for coming, and please stay tuned. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Sincerely, Sid
Why didn't your emails say that there would only be X number of HITs available? If I had known that there was only a 1% or 10% chance of actually taking part in this, I would've done other things.
Hi annelions, I tried to state in my e-mail that this was just a trial run and that if you didn't pick up a HIT, we'd notify you later. I'm very sorry I wasn't clear, and we'll make sure in the future that we don't have to turn people away in the future. I will work harder to earn your trust.
The email was worded to make it sound like the limiting factor was time, not slots. ESPECIALLY since the email stated it was "open to everyone". Unless numbers are specifically stated, having "limited" slots is open to wide interpretation. There have been "limited edition" merchandise where they make hundreds of thousands of copies!
Everyone who participated today should have been paid their bonus by now. If you have any questions, let me know
Is it possible that you moved to a different computer since doing the tutorial? 1366 x 768 is a bit too small for our task. We're thinking about redesigning the UI a bit to make better use of screen space.
I've just put up a new batch of qualification HITs for this task. Please feel free to pick one up if you haven't done it before: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?requesterId=A3RXXNTGSUSTQ9