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    <title>Requesters</title>
    <description>A forum specifically for requesters to introduce themselves, recruit workers, and interact with the community.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>HITs like UserBob</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/hits-like-userbob.6037/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/hits-like-userbob.6037/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (UserBob)</author>
      <dc:creator>UserBob</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Are there any other requesters that regularly post HITs like UserBob HITs? UserBob HITs have a worker record their screen while they complete a task on a website or app as they talk about what they are thinking.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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      <title>Help us bridge the gap between AI and humans in telling stories about movies!</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/help-us-bridge-the-gap-between-ai-and-humans-in-telling-stories-about-movies.6287/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/help-us-bridge-the-gap-between-ai-and-humans-in-telling-stories-about-movies.6287/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (nilinykh123)</author>
      <dc:creator>nilinykh123</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone,<br />
<br />
We are looking for <b>MTurk workers with Master qualification (!)</b> to complete a storytelling task.<br />
<br />
In each HIT, you will be shown a sequence of images (frames from movies, which you may or may not recognise). You will be asked to write a coherent, visually grounded story describing what&#039;s happening in the images.<br />
<br />
Your story should (1) mention relevant characters and events visible in the images, (2) flow naturally, but coherence, flow and narrative style are up to you. We...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/help-us-bridge-the-gap-between-ai-and-humans-in-telling-stories-about-movies.6287/" class="internalLink">Help us bridge the gap between AI and humans in telling stories about movies!</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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      <title>Ben peterson</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/ben-peterson.5359/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/ben-peterson.5359/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (thiru50926)</author>
      <dc:creator>thiru50926</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[can anyone working on BEN PETERSON hit in this time?]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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      <title>Invitation to the Interview</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/invitation-to-the-interview.6034/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/invitation-to-the-interview.6034/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Alena Gross)</author>
      <dc:creator>Alena Gross</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone, <br />
I’m a PhD candidate researching the experiences of gig and platform workers like freelancers, rideshare drivers, content creators, and Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. I’m looking to speak with workers about their experiences in a brief Zoom interview.  <br />
Participation is voluntary, and as a thank-you, I’m offering $50 for your time. <br />
All responses will be confidential and anonymized. <br />
If you’re interested or have any questions, please send me a private message.<br />
<br />
Alena]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Seeking Taiwanese Workers to complete a survey</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/seeking-taiwanese-workers-to-complete-a-survey.6000/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/seeking-taiwanese-workers-to-complete-a-survey.6000/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (PhDBusby)</author>
      <dc:creator>PhDBusby</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I am new to this forum and hope to recruit participants to complete a short survey for my dissertation study.

	<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/attachments/39110/" target="_blank">View attachment 39110</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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      <title>Fraudulent? One person using multiple MTurk accounts?</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/fraudulent-one-person-using-multiple-mturk-accounts.5529/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/fraudulent-one-person-using-multiple-mturk-accounts.5529/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (HUANREN ZHANG)</author>
      <dc:creator>HUANREN ZHANG</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have been running interactive economic games that require real-time interactions between workers. I noticed that sometimes in a session with 60 workers, the geolocation indicates half of them are from the same city, which is statistically impossible. And these workers provide bad quality data -- it seems that they just clicked through without thinking. What makes it more suspicious is that some of the workers seem to take turns to answer the questions, and the answers they provide are...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/fraudulent-one-person-using-multiple-mturk-accounts.5529/" class="internalLink">Fraudulent? One person using multiple MTurk accounts?</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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      <title>Preventing multiple submissions</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/preventing-multiple-submissions.5936/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/preventing-multiple-submissions.5936/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Requester_TZ)</author>
      <dc:creator>Requester_TZ</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello, <br />
<br />
After launching a survey on MTurk that links out to Qualtric software (with workers entering a completion code back into MTurk for payment), I noticed an issue with lots of clearly duplicate responses of workers taking the survey multiple times and submitting for payment. Since I have it set on MTurk to only allow unique workers to respond, they must have multiple MTurk accounts from which they are taking the survey and getting paid. This is seriously affecting the validity of my...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/preventing-multiple-submissions.5936/" class="internalLink">Preventing multiple submissions</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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      <title>Qualifying more workers for video metadata HITs</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/qualifying-more-workers-for-video-metadata-hits.3540/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/qualifying-more-workers-for-video-metadata-hits.3540/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Cody D.)</author>
      <dc:creator>Cody D.</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone! We&#039;re ready to finally qualify more workers to work on our HITs. You can search &quot;Musicbed&quot; to find our HITs on mturk.<br />
<br />
If you&#039;re interested, here&#039;s what I need from you:<br />
<br />
1. Send me a direct message with your worker id and email address (you can send it via Mturk or here on TurkerView -- it&#039;s called &quot;Start a Conversation&quot; on TurkerView)<br />
2. In that message, simply write 2 sentences telling me why you would like to do our HITs.<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>We do require you to be a native English...</li>
</ul><br />
<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/qualifying-more-workers-for-video-metadata-hits.3540/" class="internalLink">Qualifying more workers for video metadata HITs</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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      <title>Launching multiplayer games (poor click-through?)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/launching-multiplayer-games-poor-click-through.2419/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/launching-multiplayer-games-poor-click-through.2419/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (James Houghton)</author>
      <dc:creator>James Houghton</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi All, <br />
<br />
I&#039;m trying to launch a multiplayer game with 20 players. I don&#039;t want the players to wait long in the waiting room, so I set a HIT for 60 workers, and ask the workers to begin the task as soon as they accept the HIT. I pay those who complete the training but don&#039;t get to play.<br />
<br />
The majority of those hits get accepted in less than a minute, but then workers don&#039;t seem to click through to the actual game. Those who do click through wait a long time for people who are sitting on the...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/launching-multiplayer-games-poor-click-through.2419/" class="internalLink">Launching multiplayer games (poor click-through?)</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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      <title>This site is not credible for requesters...</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/this-site-is-not-credible-for-requesters.5817/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/this-site-is-not-credible-for-requesters.5817/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Thedon)</author>
      <dc:creator>Thedon</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I shouldn&#039;t have to say this because everyone should have common sense as an adult to know that...someone else&#039;s experience is someone else&#039;s experience, regardless of what your experience may have been...<br />
<br />
I have attempted to get the little mTurk requester account verified for a week, but it wasn’t approved. Now I want to close this account because it is of no use to me and there is no option to do so. I have sent several messages to this Chris guy to no avail. When I first signed up for...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/this-site-is-not-credible-for-requesters.5817/" class="internalLink">This site is not credible for requesters...</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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      <title>Funding my MTurk Account</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/funding-my-mturk-account.5796/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/funding-my-mturk-account.5796/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Rob S)</author>
      <dc:creator>Rob S</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all.  Sorry if this question has been asked before.  I haven&#039;t conducted a survey since MTurk changed its format to using AWS.  I don&#039;t know how to fund my account (with a credit card) so that I can conduct a survey.  Need help.  Thanks.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>What is an assignment?</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/what-is-an-assignment.5743/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/what-is-an-assignment.5743/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (crostata)</author>
      <dc:creator>crostata</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Good morning, I am a requester and I am trying to understand in the pricing what is an assignment.<br />
If for example I provide a HIT which consists of a survey containing 3 questions, does it count as a single assignment or as three assignment? Thank you?]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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      <title>shohamylab-onlinestudies Refusal to pay bonus</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/shohamylab-onlinestudies-refusal-to-pay-bonus.5741/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/shohamylab-onlinestudies-refusal-to-pay-bonus.5741/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (cbryanj)</author>
      <dc:creator>cbryanj</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Did anyone else do the &quot;Learning and Decision Study - up to $16 including BONUS(~ 65 minutes)&quot; HIT? I&#039;ve been waiting since 6/17 for their approval (which only came last week), and they still have not paid out the $4 bonus I was promised. I have reached out to them twice but they refuse to respond.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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      <title>Question on MTurk in Europe</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/question-on-mturk-in-europe.5736/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/question-on-mturk-in-europe.5736/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (crostata)</author>
      <dc:creator>crostata</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone,<br />
I am not sure if this is the right thread where to ask this so feel free to redirect me, anyways for my work I am considering to use MTurk as requester to recruit a sample in Europe. I have two main questions:<br />
- Is MTurk as widely used in Europe as in the US? How long does it take to collect around 1000 observations?<br />
- What is the average reward for a 15 minutes HIT in Europe?<br />
Thank you!]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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      <title>P9J Rejections</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/p9j-rejections.5284/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/p9j-rejections.5284/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (wallyk)</author>
      <dc:creator>wallyk</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<ol>
<li><br />
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      <slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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      <title>VacationRentalAPI Qualification Test</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/vacationrentalapi-qualification-test.5678/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/vacationrentalapi-qualification-test.5678/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (VacationRentalAPI)</author>
      <dc:creator>VacationRentalAPI</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello!<br />
<br />
We are VacationRentalAPI. We have been a Requester on MTurk for several years, posting batches every weekday to a small group of Mturk workers that have obtained our closed qualification.<br />
<br />
Our HITS consist of identifying the location of short-term rentals, and our payment scale ranges from $2 to $7.50 per identification.<br />
<br />
Due to our growth, we currently have a need for additional workers and would like to extend a qualification test to anyone* that may be interested. <br />
<br />
Identifying...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/vacationrentalapi-qualification-test.5678/" class="internalLink">VacationRentalAPI Qualification Test</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Looking for Master's, PhD-titled, and Grad students.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/looking-for-masters-phd-titled-and-grad-students.5574/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/looking-for-masters-phd-titled-and-grad-students.5574/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Lumius)</author>
      <dc:creator>Lumius</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey Turkerview!<br />
<br />
Helping an ex-Noah Turk Researcher with recruitment for a project. <br />
<br />
They&#039;re looking for a few Master’s, PhD, and Grad students for training an AI. Transcripts will be ran on this, for verification. There are many, many other projects, so please undersell yourself and only apply if you legitimately have a verifiable degree!<br />
<br />
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* This is a $50+/hr task, with up to 40 hours per week, depending on your specifics. Start time is immediately. The project will continue for up to 4...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/looking-for-masters-phd-titled-and-grad-students.5574/" class="internalLink">Looking for Master&#039;s, PhD-titled, and Grad students.</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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      <title>Howdy, help us get better at hits.</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 23:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/howdy-help-us-get-better-at-hits.5462/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/howdy-help-us-get-better-at-hits.5462/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Sellametrics)</author>
      <dc:creator>Sellametrics</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey Guys, Andrei here.<br />
I just wanted to introduce myself here and ask if you have any feedbacks or questions on our hits.<br />
And how we can make them better.<br />
<br />
<br />
We also want to build more custom qualifications and curious what is a common practice for those hits, since I don&#039;t have a worker profile and can&#039;t really browse Mturk as a worker.<br />
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We want to have 40 easy to pick radio button demographic selections and one text field.<br />
Does this sounds good?<br />
<br />
Thank you]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>MealMate accidental HIT launch $0.01</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/mealmate-accidental-hit-launch-0-01.5527/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/mealmate-accidental-hit-launch-0-01.5527/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Eric Speck)</author>
      <dc:creator>Eric Speck</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone, I am hopping on here in case any of you came across our HIT yesterday paying $0.01. This was not intentional. Our developers were testing and for some reason they wanted to test launching 100 HITs in the production environment. Unfortunately, workers quickly grabbed them and found themselves being asked to complete a lot of work for $0.01. We will be launching the HIT later this week or next with appropriate compensation. <br />
<br />
We are not soul-less people over here - just people who...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/mealmate-accidental-hit-launch-0-01.5527/" class="internalLink">MealMate accidental HIT launch $0.01</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Survey and Interview about work experiences in digital platforms ($20)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/short-survey-and-interview-about-work-experiences-in-digital-platforms-20.3950/</link>
      <guid>https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/short-survey-and-interview-about-work-experiences-in-digital-platforms-20.3950/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (mturker19)</author>
      <dc:creator>mturker19</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone!<br />
<br />
My name is Azka. I am a research student at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). My area of interest is exploring work experiences and digital platforms. The purpose of this study is to better understand the challenges and opportunities that workers experience due to the use of platform work.<br />
<br />
I’m recruiting 8-10 Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) workers to participate in a short survey and a 60-minute online interview in exchange for a $20 Amazon eGift Card.<br />
<br />
To...<br />
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<a href="https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/short-survey-and-interview-about-work-experiences-in-digital-platforms-20.3950/" class="internalLink">Short Survey and Interview about work experiences in digital platforms ($20)</a>]]></content:encoded>
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