/r/mturk
A subreddit focused on Amazon's crowd work platform, Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
For discussion and sharing of MTurk tips and tricks, scam alerts, research studies, and all things Mechanical Turk related.
New to Mechanical Turk?
Check the /r/mturk FAQ.
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Turkers' Essentials
When submitting to /r/mturk
Check the FAQ or search the subreddit before asking a question.
Please create a 'text post' instead of a 'link post' if you're referring to a specific HIT. Avoid linking directly to HITs because a HIT becomes unable to be viewed by others after it's accepted by someone. We likely can't help you if we can't see the HIT you're talking about.
If you are a Requester (someone trying to get work done)
You are welcome to post and promote your HITs, but please post no more than once a day. Also, keep in mind that this is a community where jobs are done for money. If your survey offers no compensation, consider posting to /r/SampleSize instead of here, or talk to your sponsor and tell them you'll need to provide incentive before posting. When posting, please include the following information.
- Requester name
- HIT name (if applicable)
- Requester ID (optional, but it helps)
Additionally, if asking for advice about hit design or potential hits, please include the following.
- A description of the hit
- What's required, how long does it take, as much info as possible so we can help you
- A best guess is fine, but make sure you take into account that the people doing your hit will not be as intimately familiar with the subject matter as you are. Please use a worst-case guideline when estimating time.
- Keep in mind that wage (incentive) and effort are directly related! Minimum wage = minimum effort.
Any survey content, qualification test content, posts or comments that promote unethical behavior, or violations of Amazon's Terms of Service for Mechanical Turk will be removed at mod discretion.
Rules/Guidelines
Here you can find some general rules/guidelines to follow when posting/commenting. Keep in mind, all of these are up to moderator discretion. These rules apply to both the subreddit and the IRC. These rules are subject to change at any time, so keep an eye out and please check before posting to ensure you're following the guidelines.
Be respectful. Reddiquette is real, and is expected. Make sure your comments are respectful of other turkers. Refrain from name-calling, insults, etc. This includes flaming new people for not searching the subreddit before posting. We're all adults here, I shouldn't have to tell you how to behave. This includes talking down to people, or being overly patronizing. If you don't want to be helpful and answer the question in a non-snarky way, just don't post and move on.
Follow MTurk TOS. All the relevant documentation can be found here. You are expected to abide by these requirements on mturk, this sub, and the IRC. Read them. If you have a question, read them again, then ask. If in doubt, message the subreddit mods to see if it would be appropriate before posting. If we say no, see rule 7. This includes buying/selling accounts and working on other people's accounts. This is specifically disallowed on mturk (and is also likely a crime in the US), and should not be discussed here.
No scamming. /r/mturk takes a hard stance against scamming, and it is grounds for a ban. It makes everyone look bad, and sours requesters to the entire platform. Don't do it, don't talk about it, simple as that. This includes discussion of scripts that the moderators decide are against mturk TOS.
No survey info. If posting a particularly funny passage, question, etc. you should not be able to determine either the requester or the HIT unless you've already done it. The only exception to this rule is information found on the preview page (before accepting a HIT), or on the consent form. NOTE: This includes the URL. If you are posting a page from a survey, please crop or censor the URL.
No doxxing. When posting information about a requester, you may only post information which is acceptable per rule 4. If you had to leave the preview page or consent form to get the info, you are not allowed to post it. A rule of thumb is to post as little information as possible. Try to keep it to mturk's "contact requester" links, the requester name (as seen on mturk), and the contact email given on the consent form. No personal phone numbers, no real names (unless it's the same as the requester name on mturk), no supervisor's name/number/address, none of that.
No spamming. Please search the subreddit before posting. If there's already a post, please respond to that one instead of creating a whole new one, even if it's old. A general rule of thumb is one post about a topic every day, though that's up to moderator discretion.
Respect moderator decisions. You may not agree with them, you may be upset about it, but moderators exist to keep things civil and make sure people are following the rules. Chances are if something was deleted, it broke a rule. The mod team attempts to be as impartial as possible, but sometimes we make mistakes. Feel free to message the subreddit mods if you want us to take a look at something again.
Report posts. The mods attempt to be active, but we all have other things going on, and we can't look through every post or comment made. If you see something that breaks a rule, please report it and give a reason. That's the best way to bring things to our attention. If it's urgent, please message us or let us know in IRC.
Flair your posts. While not a rule, per-se, it makes it a lot easier if you can flair your own post. That helps new people find your post when searching, and helps everyone get an idea of the content of your post right from the front page.
Self Promotion. Self promotion is alright within limits. Follow the spamming rules, and try to give as much information as you can. Make sure there are no incentivized links (adfly, etc) anywhere, though you are free to include a referral link/code provided that a non-referral link is prominantly provided as well. People shouldn't HAVE to support you.
- Donation. /r/mturk doesn't have a problem with Turkers including a paypal link or something in the footer of your post, but please don't go overboard. A simple "Like my work? Support me here:" is all that's necessary. We don't need a 3 page summary of your financial issues; people shouldn't be guilted into supporting you.
- For Hire. In general, "for hire" posts are out of scope of mturk work. Please don't come in trying to get people to hire you to do things. This does not apply to people asking someone to do something for them, but keep in mind the previous rules. Also, any business you enter into with other users is your own risk. The /r/mturk mods take no responsibility if anyone does anything for payment through the subreddit.
Include preview links. If linking to a hit, please DO NOT post "panda", or auto-accept, links without also providing preview links as well. Some people may want to look at a HIT without accepting it. Alternatively, include a link to the requester page.
If you have any questions about the rules, please message the subreddit mods.
Reddiquette applies here and anyone unable to follow these guidelines may be banned at moderator discretion. Our subreddit rules also apply to our IRC channel.
Related subreddits
- CrowdSurf (the mTurk requester)
- BeerMoney
- WorkOnline
- CircleTurk
- Crowdsourcing
- SwagBucks
- HWTF
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/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 09, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
Mturk suspension issue.
Are you people facing mturk account suspension issue?
16:52 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 08, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
Zafin Labs
Has anybody had any HITs approved by this requester? Their approval rating on my dashboard is 89%. Not great, but not as bad as others I've seen. I've done a few HITs and now today, there are over 5k HITs. None of mine have been approved yet and I can't find any warnings about them on here.
18:59 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 07, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
Account suspended because of some "related account" activity -- is this a known glitch?
This is from the suspension email:
We regret to inform you that your Amazon Mechanical Turk Worker account has been suspended effective immediately. We took this action because our records indicate that your Worker account is related to another Amazon Mechanical Turk account that was closed for violation of the MTurk Participation Agreement.
I have never used any other mTurk accounts, so this is some kind of glitch.
Is this happening to other people lately?
07:38 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 06, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
delete my mturk account
if my mturk account is suspended or locked for any reason. is there a was to delete my account? I can't login to it
01:42 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 05, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
you have reached your monthly credit limit
I recieved this message while trying to post a hit on Mturk "
|| || | contact us our FAQs You have exceeded your monthly credit limit, please to request a limit increase on your AWS MTurk account for your expected usage, or see to learn more."|
Does anyone know how long this takes to update and how to do it? I am trying to place a survey on Mturk for my company ASAP
18:32 UTC
Identify anomalies in images: Second Floor Elevator Button Missing
Anyone else working these HITs? I've had so many where the just the second floor elevator button is missing, I'm starting to wonder, is this a common occurrence? why not the third or fourth?
Also thinking they maybe QC questions.
17:59 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 04, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
05:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 03, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of November 03, 2024
Please use this thread to ask any "newbie" questions you might have. Just getting started? Wondering where to go, what to do? Wondering what a qualification is and how to get it? This is the place! Any common questions will be added to the [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/) to help everyone! Please don't downvote questions just because they've been asked a million times before, that's not what this thread is for. This is supposed to be a place where anyone should be unafraid to ask anything, thanks!
Helpful links:
Check the [**/r/mturk FAQ**](http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/).
* Join us on [OrangeChat](https://app.orangechat.io/r/mturk)
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### Turkers' Essentials
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* [mTurk **Communities and Resource** Sites](http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/communities)
* [**HITsWorthTurkingFor**](/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor)
* [mTurk **Glossary**](http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/glossary)
* [mTurk **Scripts**](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/search?q=mturk)
04:00 UTC
Custom Brex Credential is 1
How to pass this qualification i cleared all other expect this one anybody know i am new to mturk.
07:53 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 02, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 01, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - October 31, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - October 30, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
mturk is dead?
haven't been back since before the pandemic, and it appears the status of mturk is even sadder than it was before the pandemic. i don't see any of the machine learning requesters with batch works, and the surveys are gone also. what are people working on mturk these days?
i see hitscraper stopped importing the backup setting file saying invalid file..
mts seems to be up to date somewhat? but i haven't updated the database in so long...
how are you guys doing on this platform?
21:47 UTC
Queuebicle QBC has it stopped working for anyone else?
The power button is greyed out for me. I've tried uninstall, reinstall.
21:24 UTC
MLDataLabeler
Hi what I have to do to qualify please?
20:14 UTC
Hit Forker Problem
Today when I went to my Hit Forker link, it is just pulling up the normal MTurk worker page. I have been using it for months without issues, and haven't changed anything on my computer since yesterday. Is anyone else having this problem or know how I could troubleshoot it? Thank you.
13:27 UTC
What am I doing wrong?
So I signed up a few days ago after seeing some people here mention it.
With the hits, I constantly get ‘No more available hits’ or I am not qualified, I click some requests to get qualified but most just sit pending.
Even the survey one is now saying no more hits. It seems impossible, am I missing something?
11:26 UTC
Suspended account
Hi.
My account was suspended, and Mturk sent me an email asking me to send my identification document by fax. As you can imagine, I do not have a fax machine and I am not aware of anyone who does.. Therefore, I would like your help with the following items:
- What online fax service did you use to send the documentation?
- What is the best scanner resolution (PPI) for scanning documents?
- The email says to send the document along with my name, surname, and the email address used to log in to MTurk. Should I just write that, or do I need to include anything else?
I appreciate any help you can provide.
Thank you.
Update: 2024/11/04 My account has been reinstated. Everything is working normally.
06:43 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - October 29, 2024
Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk/Reddit TOS breaking posts. Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.
04:00 UTC
getting signed out a lot?
Previously I could work for hours without it automatically signing me out, now I've been signed out twice in the past hour. Anyone else dealing with this? I've also had to enter my computer password to then enter my amazon password. I'm using chrome on a macbook
00:01 UTC
What happened??
I've been hearing a lot about mTurk lately and decided to check it out. I have a traditional Amazon account but I have never been part of mTurk. I tried to sign up and it immediately told me my account has been suspended. That makes no sense to me as I've never worked on mTurk before just had a traditional Amazon account that I buy stuff on. Does anyone have any insight as to what may have happened?
19:54 UTC
Training
Hi, I'm new to amazon mturk,
My qualifications are shooping receipt , Panel ,GroH system
I would like to be trained on other more profitable projects.
I need help please? where can I train?
Thank you
15:19 UTC
ff hits -- qualification score changed
I have been working on ff hits which require a closed qual. I earned the qual 4-5 years ago and have enjoyed these hits very much. Today I noticed that my qual score was changed, on their end, from 100 to a lower score, so I can no longer work on the hits.
I have always done well on these hits and earned bonuses. I never received any negative feedback.
Has this happened to anyone else who's approved to work on these hits? Is it temporary? I already emailed the requester with no response.
12:30 UTC