Hello all.

New to the forum but not really new to mturk. I've been doing it on and off, mostly off, since 2014. Was also a member of the old MTG forum as well. I own a farm that's just under 200 acres and mturk helps to fill in the gaps in pay. Have 4 cats, Sammy, Yogi, Bud and a barn cat called Big Boy. 2 dogs, a wiener dog, named Weiner of course, and a coyote called Babs. All of them found their own way to the farm and stayed or were taken in when they needed a home. Also have 9 chickens that keep us supplied with eggs.

I'm looking to hit between $40-50 a day hopefully. I've got plenty of time throughout the day so it shouldn't be hard to do once I figure things out again. I just started up again about a week ago. The last time I really sat down and took it seriously was back in 2014 and a little in 2015.

I need to get my numbers up. Right now I'm sitting at 3198 total. I have zero rejections and masters though. I want a larger buffer for when I do get some. The scripts now are completely different than when I was doing this before. It's not a total restart, but it's taking some time to figure things out again. I need to get a good list of things to add to panda crazy. Right now I'm just adding HITs that I miss to it and trying to catch them again.

Anyway, glad to be part of the forum. I've learned quite a bit again just reading things here. If anyone has any suggestions feel free to throw them out. As I learn more I'll be happy to share what I can as well.

 

Welcome



Wait you have mastes with under 5k hits? I don't think that we will ever figure out how it is handed out lol.

Anyways if you are a unicorn you will want to poke @leafs4_cup and @DikDik for help in finding unicorn hits. @SeDuCeR is also a unicorn I believe.

Anyways if you have any questions as far as scripts go or really anything please don't be afraid to ask.

 

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NEED PICTURES

..need an explanation on how they survive the coyote LOL

Was gonna suggest MTS, but PC works as well if you throw in one of the scrapers with it. Honestly just hanging around the daily and asking about anything that seems weird/confusing is the best way to do it. Never be afraid to ask lol, most folks will help if they can.

For $40-50/day you can probably just pick at surveys during down time & then ham stuff like C-SATs / Pins when they come around.. Should hit it most days without huge amounts of effort tbh lol.

Just tagging some folks so they see this don't mind me I'm a prankster: @gurlondrums @NBadger @ThisPoorGuy

This happened occasionally during the old days, which is why people have always said Masters was a scam on Amazon's part lol. I didn't see anyone w/ that low an amount get it last go-around though that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

 

@Hummingbirdee

 

Thanks. It's been a while. I think it came shortly after I hit 3k. I remember on the old forum people talking about them not giving it out for a very long time. It was a couple months after that they gave it out in droves it seemed. That's when I picked it up. I have no idea what the criteria is for it. I thought it might have been due to the 100% rating, but others on the forum said they got it as well and had some rejects. IIRC one person said they got it and were in the mid 90% but had over 50k total. Haven't a clue. I didn't argue, I just took it and smiled.

 

Welcome to TurkerHub, @BarnCat!

Join us in the daily mTurk HIT thread: https://turkerhub.com/forums/daily-mturk-hits-threads.2/

 

Babs, the coyote, came to us as a very small pup. Her mother abandoned her and she made her way through the fields into the back yard. She wasn't doing well when we found her. We got her nursed back to health and she was very friendly. She was raised around the barn cats and her surrogate mother was a very gentle border collie. She lays in the yard with our last remaining barn cat. She goes into the barn at night with the chickens, we've never had any issues. Of course she's well fed. If she had to fight for her food then I'm sure it would be different.

As far as the scripts, I have PC, MTS, Mturk Dashboard, Overwatch, HIT Database Mk 2 and Save AA time. I'm starting to get the hang of them all, but I'm sure I'm not using them effectively yet. OW seems straight forward as well as MTS. I just installed PC yesterday and am still trying to get used to it.

 

As requested. Had to dig out the archive hard drive and upload them.


Babs with her winter fur before her spring haircut. She's about 4 in this picture, it's a bit old. She's almost 6 now.




The previous clowder. All are gone except now except for the small orange & white one. That's Big Boy, he's full grown now and about 12 pounds. He's very gently with us and the dogs, shows no interest in the chickens. Strangers and other wildlife, not so much.

 

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Wow, I've not seen a coyote with fur that long before. Is she a mix? Gorgeous!

 

It's possible she may be a mix but she doesn't really have any other characteristics that stand out though. We are pretty rural and there are other dogs that run wild. If you go outside at night in the fall you can hear several different packs in all the surrounding woods. We thought about having one of the dna tests done, but decided against it. We're real careful about local people finding out. The farm sits back off the road enough that people can't really tell and don't notice.