09/29 - Turkapocalypse Tuesday

Since everyone is reminiscing and we don't know what time the end is coming, I decided to take a screenshot of my mturk dashboard for memories.

Oh, and I think I have all kinds of random screenshots from the forum from years ago. I should look at them at some point.

 

I got this approximately 5 months after I started. I still feel bad there were people who started well before me who never got hit by their lucky dart.

Congratulations! You have earned the Masters qualification for Photo Moderation. Congratulations! This is a great achievement and reflects your demonstrated excellence in completing these types of HITs.

Photo Moderation Masters is special qualification given to an elite group of Workers, who have demonstrated superior performance while completing thousands of HITs across the Marketplace. Masters must maintain this high level of performance or risk losing this distinction. Mechanical Turk has built technology which analyzes Worker performance, identifies high performing Workers and monitors their performance over time. Today, two types of Masters are available – Photo Moderation Masters and Categorization Masters.

Mechanical Turk Masters enjoy these special benefits:
• Exclusive access to HITs that require a Masters qualification.
• No more CAPTCHAs! That's right; we've removed the CAPTCHA for Msters on ALL of the HITs you complete.
• Access to a private forum just for Masters. You will receive a separate e-mail with instructions for how to join this private forum.

Kudos on earning the Photo Moderation Masters distinction!

Sincerely,
The Mechanical Turk Team

 

I don't remember ever getting access to a private forum..... I got robbed!

 

I never got an invite to any special masters forum.

This is stupid

I hate it

 

Yup though if I remember correctly it wasn't really active in there


Amazon Mechanical Turk contactus@mturk.com via amazonses.com
Tue, Nov 4, 2014, 2:39 PM


Hello –
Congratulations on recently becoming a Mechanical Turk Master. One of the benefits of this status is access to a private forum just for Mechanical Turk Masters.

This forum is exclusive to Workers who have been granted Mechanical Turk Masters status. Requesters are not invited to participate and, although the Mechanical Turk team may pop in and post an announcement, the goal is to provider Masters with a safe location to share ideas, best practices and information with each other.

To get access to the private forum, you will need to set up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) forums account and share your forum nickname with us so that we can grant your account access to the private forum. Detailed instructions are below.
Instructions & Process for Forum Access:

(1) Create an AWS Account
- Go to https://aws.amazon.com and select “Signin” in the upper right.
- If you would like to use your current Mechanical Turk email and password, please sign in as a returning user. If you would like to enter a new email and password, sign in as a new user.
- Complete the registration process.
- Note: Creating an AWS forums account has no associated cost, though you will be prompted to enter a credit card as part of the account verification process.

(2) Set your AWS Forums Nickname
- Login to the AWS forums and go to this page to set up your nickname: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/username.jspa
- You can select any nickname you want that is available

(3) Send us an e-mail with your nickname
- Let us know you’ve completed the AWS account creation process and selected a nickname by sending us an e-mail.
- Contact us at https://www.mturk.com/mturk/contactus and include your nickname in the message. We need this name in order to grant you access to the forum.

(4) Access the Private Forum
We will grant you access shortly after we receive your e-mail. We will provide an e-mail confirmation when access has been granted.

Cheers,
The Mechanical Turk Team

P.S. If your “Real Name” is showing up on your forum posts, please read this thread on “Real Names”

 

Mturkgrind was the best forum back in the day. Who needed the amazon forum.

 

Some familiar names from 2014

 

Ok Google Ai. Getting a little ahead of yourself