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Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Wed Mar 18 2009 00:04 UTC

lir...@i...

Turkopticon user Max C Turk suggested that it would be useful to be able to go from a well reviewed requester to all of their Amazon HITs. So Six whipped up the feature which you can see on the Requester Reviews page:
http://turkopticon.differenceengines.com/requesters

One thing to watch out for is that not all requesters have HITs up at all times so we'll see if we can offer an indication of that before you click without slowing down your web browsing experience.

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Wed Mar 18 2009 15:24 UTC

maxc...@g...

once again yay! :D

If you found a way to make an indicator this would be priceless!

P.S. I did have a thought on how you can do it. It wouldn't be 100% proof but maybe a start in the right direction. Here it is: You can try to tie it into the plugin. Since users browse hits all the time the plugin pulls data from the server to see if each requester has a rating yet. What if each time that data was pulled a variable for that requester got set to 5 minutes. Everytime a variable is reset the requester would be displayed green for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes of inactivity the variable would expire. It's not 100% but it would be better than nothing. What do you think?

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Mon Mar 30 2009 02:30 UTC

lir...@i...

max, good idea! Your idea seems like it would work if there was always at least one turkopticon user browsing HITs. Right now, we have something like 60 users (tell your friends about us!) so I wonder how accurate the green would be. We will keep this in mind.

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Tue Jun 09 2009 03:03 UTC

tac...@g...

This is an awesome feature! It sure beats trying to figure out what search terms to use on mturk and hoping to find a requester who has a good reputation. Thank you for what you two are doing for us all!

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Fri Jul 24 2009 08:06 UTC

dnature...@y...

Boy am I glad to see this site! I only wish I read the John Vincent one before! that Requestor rejected all mine too and its easy finding emails and contact forms, now my rating is to low to do anything else since I worked 45 of his... I found you through Dolores Signature.. But how do we add information about the abusive requestors? That I am confused on...
- Dana "DNatureofDTrain"

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Sat Jul 25 2009 02:50 UTC

margari...@y...

hey, do you guys need any help? it can't pay any less than mturk! :-)

I'm pissed about US companies paying US workers like a dollar an hour - it seems like there should be a way to report them. I don't mind paying taxes on it, but jeez, at least make it reasonable.

seriously, if you guys need any gratis help, please let me know, i'd love to help you. we need more people that care.

mike

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Thu Sep 24 2009 07:27 UTC

meme20...@y...

Cracks me up how you focus on how to go from a well reviewed turker because that's not the subject really people that are looking on this site want to know who is really honest payers and who lie about jobs then steal work and don't pay "due to other turkers disagreeing with your work.

Re: Improving Turkopticon with your experience

Wed Jun 23 2010 02:16 UTC

eder...@b...

If you can offer such an indicator, Turkopticon could be the primary interface many workers use to find HITs. It would reward good requesters and punish bad ones, so good requesters will cheer you! (Why, oh why, doesn't MTurk integrate this into their own interface like eBay does?) Anyway, with such an indicator, you can replace MTurk as the primary interface people use!

BTW, I suggest you put an ad on your pages. It's easier to devote effort toward something when "the kindness of your heart" isn't the only reason for doing it. Ad support would be kinder to workers than a subscription-based model. It probably will not be big money at first, but if the indicator we're talking about really catches on, this could be big! Just a suggestion.