03/26 - Wake Up Wednesday

Another non-sequitur was like this:

"An artist made a thing and it was published..."​

"Based on the foregoing, was the artist still alive when the thing was published?"​

How should I know the "right" answer to that?
The preceding text didn't tell me any clue to that question.

Maybe it was just a silly research question with "no right answer" — maybe, but the study started with a warning about an attention check and potential rejection, so I bailed out.

 

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AI/data annotation/prompt engineering. I've been on there for a little over 5 years. I have a few regular requestors that I prioritize between company and pay, with some getting shoved way down the line and rarely worked on. It makes me less sad to not have an MTurk masters as I didn't start doing that til '16 when they stopped giving them out.

 

yeah, but they ended it right before I started doing that. It was finally getting really good. Now I watch a lot of podcasts and livestreams on youtube.

 

Been a while since I logged in over there. When I was there it was just surveys and an insane number of demographics questions I never finished. Masters isn't as great as some on the forums would have you believe.

 

What in the world is with all these repeated "Answer a survey about your opinions" hits? They each just have a random guys name and they show up all day.

 

We were just joking around when we were talking about them. They are just scam hits that nobody should be doing. Feel free to report them to Amazon if you'd like.

 

I don't know but they're driving me nuts. I keep blocking all the HITs.

 

do you guys think your grocery store type of discount shopping card connects to your msn ID that you have to have to set up your computer when you first get it new? I write grocery lists with a pen on a piece of paper and put them in my purse. shop alone usually, don't say what I'm buying to anyone. I've been noticing that after I shop, I go back to where I live and get on my laptop and open the Edge browser. it has this section that says "Inspired by your shopping interests" with a little blue shopping tag. it shows items that I might be interested in buying below it.

I've been buying completely different products lately, that I have never bought before. like argan oil, castor oil, plain lye soap made from lard, etc. basically they are ingredients for making soaps, shampoos, other toiletries things. so today I open my edge browser and wouldn't you know it, there's castor oil and argan oil both being suggested to me in that section in the edge browser. and other similar things I have bought over the last few days. the only electronic record is just my kroger shopper's card, not credit card, just the shoppers card that everyone uses to get discounts. I paid in cash. I didn't even have my phone with me some of the times when I buy the stuff.

is this happening to you guys and also is there a way to stop it because it's freaky?

 

I think that happened to me too. I was clicking on a HIT thinking it was a survey link, but I got a random page about insurance..

That explains it. How do you get rid of those particular HITs?

 

If you want to get rid of them for real you complain to Amazon. When enough of us hit the report hit button we get a person at Amazon looking at it instead of an automated response. Once someone looks at it, they ban the requester.

A quicker solution is to use javascript to make them not display on your screen. Depending on what screen you are seeing them on there are various publicly available tools you can use to make that happen.

 

What hits should I be working on?

 

today is such a weird day mturk included imo

@redsfan33 there are hits up that are meh to good. random ones.

 

I hate everybody and I want my own farm

 

Edit: didn't see that you were joking and acknowledge that later on. My bad. Thought you were actually recommending these....

As others have mentioned repeatedly in this thread, I would avoid these, as well as the $1 ones that have been showing up a lot from new requesters (with similar/ the same hit names). Their approval ratings tend to go to 0% after they've screwed people over and then new accounts are started.

Right now, I see these requesters - Alessio, Paulo, Alan, Harry, Alfonso, Antonio, Carlo, Paolo, Mark, Filippo, Harry, Antonio - all with no approval ratings and the same hit title. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure these are 'scam hits'.