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Taking off the pay rating. he raised the pay to 5 cents within a couple hours of me posting this, so guess it's just one of those where pay is gonna keep fluctuating based on how fast they go, etc?
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EDIT: This is a CON of TV, as much as the requester, but I want it to be visible, so putting it here:
- Other task that was reviewed that paid 25-30 cents before, has been posting at 2 cents, as well. There really needs a better way for TV to adjust reviews or hourly wages or something automatically when same stuff drops pay, etc, or at least a warning system or something? (ex. a pop up that points out when requesters tasks with same titles have been posting for different wages)
-Requesters varying pay (seemingly more than usual lately) is getting really old, and it makes me hesitate to post reviews for new requesters/ times and pay that are above average. Plus, if a requester has a lot of reviews and then turns to crap (or improves, thought that's much rarer), the hourly never really adjusts. In short, I am finding that I need to manually inspect way more requesters now because the TV hourly wages are becoming skewed left and right, and I'm tired of getting burned/ my work flow getting screwed up cause I didn't manually look at reviews for a requester that dropped pay by $4 or something like that.
tl;dr We, as a community, or the people who run TV need to figure out how to make this review system more reliable.
PS - not a dig at you guys running the show here. We've emailed before and talked about some of these problems recently, but some days it just annoys me more than others. And really just trying to get other reviewers to think along the same lines, and recognize this shit/ try to help change it.
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| Very Slow 1 / 5 | Over 2 weeks | |
| Slow 2 / 5 | ~1 - 2 Weeks | |
| Average 3 / 5 | ~3 - 7 Days | |
| Fast 4 / 5 | ~1 - 3 Days | |
| Very Fast 5 / 5 | ~24 hours or less |
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