Help getting started

Discussion in 'Help & Guides' started by brandon dambro, Dec 10, 2021.

  1. brandon dambro

    brandon dambro New Turker

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    Hi everyone I'm new here. So far I have spent a ton of time hours the last few days trying to learn what I can about mturk. Seems it is hard to find any HITS to actually do or that become worth it. By worth it I mean hit 1000 Hits then 5000. I see forum posts and most of the time I'm not qualified or missing something. I applied for some copy text test and currently have not received a reply. JUst hoping to find tips I have been doing surveys I found the finding Instagram handles to be super easy task-wise. Just trying to level up ASAP to actually start generating some actual results. I am a network guy for work so I spend all day on my PC and I can sit here and turk a lot, to be honest. Might as well work while I work right?
     
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  2. Ornac

    Ornac Survey Slinger TurkerView Masters

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    Here's something I wrote up a while back:

    Feel free to start a thread in the help section or ask in the daily if you have specific questions, don't get discouraged if someone doesn't get back to you right away someone will generally help you out if they can.

    If you're not using scripts to your advantage this is a helpful thread: https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/scripts-for-beginners.1334/#post-636527

    A decent overview of writing your own basic scripts: https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/learning-to-script-amt-hits.142/

    There's some decent stuff in the help guides section of the forum, it's something to dig through when you don't have anything else going on: https://forum.turkerview.com/forums/help/

    The wiki is kind of sparse, but I learned quite a bit from it when I was starting out: https://forum.turkerview.com/wiki/

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  3. purplepotato

    purplepotato Lavender Spudkin

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    Hi and welcome to the forum! I think a great place to start for finding/catching hits is the MTS (Mturk Suite) extension. By the time hits are exported to the forum they're generally gonna be gone already, but it can helpful to know which requesters to keep an eye out for. In general folks don't want to post good batch work to the forum bc it lessons the work pool for everyone, but for surveys the forum can definitely help.
     
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    Oh forgot the gif that's very important

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