/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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Join us on IRC (same as OrangeChat, different interface)
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
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Avoid the scar experience survey
Yesterday I spent a lot of time completing The Scar Experience Survey by requester W Quong.
I have a scar and I was accepted to take the entire survey.
They rejected my HIT. I’d say avoid that survey. Not worth the time if they’re just going to reject it.
I’m new to mturk but it seems like some of these requesters try to get out of paying people for their work.
I did contact the requester but no response yet,
17:16 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - December 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.
05:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - December 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.
05:00 UTC
Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of December 01, 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)
05:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 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.
05:00 UTC
Help Please.
Give it to me straight guys. I have US qual and am brand new. Is this worth my time??
03:33 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 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.
05:00 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 28, 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
EASY TASK - Media Views
hello,
I do not understand how to these. They look quick and easy. I have instagram and use chrome and I am not sure what they want you do. Their istructions seem so vague
23:08 UTC
Payment question
It's says payment initiated tomorrow 11/28/2024 will there be days before I get my payment? It's going directly to my bank with paypal.
22:26 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 27, 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
Panda Crazy
Panda Crazy no longer works, Strange... the page you were looking for is not here. Let’s go home and try again. Is the message I get. This is the web page I have used for the past 9 years. Is there a new web page or extension? thank you
23:36 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 26, 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 25, 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
Escaping cents
Hi, everyone is there a way to escape only pennies for HIT's since after filtering to pay more than .01 there's so little choices am I missing something here?
23:53 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 24, 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
Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of November 24, 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)
05:00 UTC
Checkmark ninja
You people can do this subjected hit?
18:24 UTC
Requester HUGC
I am working on 'Moderate Customer-Supplied Vacation Rental Reviews' hits from Jan 2024. Usually I get more hits. But this month getting very less hits. Any idea? My earning is decreasing day by day
16:40 UTC
XLM
If you're still hodling XLM from those HITs many years ago, check they're value, because it's going up, up, up!
12:03 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 23, 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 22, 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
Custom brex credential is 1.
Do anybody aware of this qualification?
17:28 UTC
HIT/Requester review question.
Is there any way to leave a review for a HIT/Requester on TurkerView if you are past the 5-day period in MTurk Suite or if you weren't using MTS when you worked the HIT? I know it's possible with Turkopticon, but can't figure it out for TurkerView. TIA
12:49 UTC
/r/mturk Daily Discussion - November 21, 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 20, 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 19, 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
Got suspended recently. Where can I go to do similar micro "intelligence" or survey tasks?
I got the auto suspend thing where they say it's because of some "related account" that was violating tos. I didn't even have another account and have been on the platform for several years and did over 5000 hits. I emailed the appeals team and they requested my ID. I sent it about 10 days ago and haven't heard any response. Meanwhile, where is a good alternative platform to earn mTurk style income online?
01:57 UTC
New Requester Curious about Response rates
Hi, I'm new to using MTurk as a requester. I've had two surveys live for a few days now with no submissions still. I won't reveal what qualifications or criteria I'm using, but I wanted to see if any other requesters or even workers had any advice. Am I lacking submissions because my criteria/requirements are too specific? Am I not offering great enough compensation for the length of the survey? I'm trying to make sure that I've set everything up correctly and there isn't something just wrong with my account. I figured at least one person would've responded in the past few days, but no, still zero! I would appreciate any ideas or advice regarding this. Thanks :)
EDIT: After a few conversations with some of you very nice helpful folks, I decided to use prolific. It seems my issue was firstly asking for master workers. Secondly, after removing that and keeping my age qualifications of 30-55+ I still only got a tiny handful of responses. I made the decision to transfer my survey to Prolific and found it to work much better. Thank you again!
17:32 UTC
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