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hvnnvr Average Pace
Answer some survey questions(~ 10 minutes) - $1.50
Low
Unrated
Pending
$19.22 / hour
00:04:41 / completion time
Pros
A quick survey even although it requires writing 3-5 sentence of advice and the numerous cons during the survey.Cons
A scammy requester with a piss poor implementation of TurkPrime's 'after the bot scare' tactics, not to mention multiple bot/attention/reading checks towards the beginning of the survey.After the requester gets the data via the Qualtrics survey their piss poor implementation (of an already flawed geolocation system developed by a bunch of trained monkeys) throws erroneous errors to encourage the worker not to continue clicking to call the bluff and be provided a completion code.
The requester has of course also chosen to include images of the standard 'This survey uses a protocol to check that you are responding from inside the U.S. and not using a Virtual Private Server (VPS), Virtual Private Network (VPN), or proxy to hide your country.'
Once you complete the survey the requester decides to further screw up the survey design and implementation of TurkPrime's half-baked ideas and throws several more standard images of 'Our system has detected that you are using a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or proxy to mask your country location. As has been widely reported, this has caused a number of problems with Mturk data (https://goo.gl/WD6QD4).
Because of this, we cannot let you participate in this study. If you are located in the U.S., please turn off your VPS the next time you participate in a survey-based HIT, as we requested in the warning message at the beginning. If you are outside of the U.S., we apologize, but this study is directed only towards U.S. Participants.
Thank you for your interest in our study.'
Pay rating given as 'Low' due to scammy tactics used towards the of the survey or plainly not checking the survey prior to publishing.
Advice to Requester
Don't be a scammy requester, check your survey before publishing it and learn about the fallacies of poor geolocation services (here's a hint they're not accurate.)
Jan 12, 2019 | 5 workers found this helpful.
MEC Relaxed Pace
For full time employees(~ 20 minutes) - $3.50
Underpaid
Unrated
Approved
$5.97 / hour
00:35:10 / completion time
Pros
No, just no...not worth it!Cons
Admittedly this sat in my queue for about 10 minutes, but the timer was paused until I started the task. With that said, it did indeed take over 30 minutes to complete this HIT, significantly more than the approximate 20 minute amount advertised. Based on this HIT, I would concur with other reviewers that work from this requestor is tedious and underpaid.
Jun 26, 2021 | 4 workers found this helpful.
Cipher Fast Reader
Answer some survey questions(~ 10 minutes) - $1.50
Generous
Unrated
Pending
$19.57 / hour
00:04:36 / completion time
Pros
Cons
This survey tried to pull a fast one with me by claiming I was using a VPN which was nonsense so I just kept clicking forward to my completion code. Had it not given me one I would have contacted the requester about it but even so do not be fooled at the end of the survey.
Jan 12, 2019 | 1 worker found this helpful.