Updating Reviews Recently, a requester reached out to Turkopticon about having contact information removed from a review. This led to a discussion about what is okay to be included in reviews. Our rules state, “Don’t include personal information about the requester unless the information was included in the HIT. Business information, including the requester’s name, …
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Welcome to Grad Student Season!
Welcome to Grad Student Season! If you have noticed an increase in available HITs lately, you aren’t alone! With fall semesters in full swing across the world of academia, grad students are beginning to use Mturk for their research, and some of them for the first time. Here are some tips on working with these …
What is a “Turker Open Forum” and Why Should I Go?
What is a “Turker Open Forum” and Why Should I Go? We are rapidly approaching our next Turker Open Forum. Stay tuned for details by following our Twitter account, @turkopticon, or our Facebook page. I have been present in each forum and can say that I have learned so much and have had wonderful conversations with …
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SURVEYS WITHOUT A CODE
SURVEYS WITHOUT A CODE This may be old news for some of us turkers, but we have to keep in mind Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is a digital labor platform with new workers being approved and included every day, thus it isn’t bad to share some of the knowledge we’ve had after working here for …
TWC and TW4TW
Tech Workers Coalition, or TWC, is a non-hierarchical, international collective of programmers, bug testers, and service workers in the technology fields. In other words, a bunch of nerds worldwide who want to make the world a more equal, better place. There are chapters from San Diego to Berlin to Bangalore, all taking up their own …
Tech Workers in Solidarity with Turkers: Living in the Hidden Realm of AI
Tech workers in other parts of the industry care are in solidarity with Turkers. Over the last years, our software team has grown with several engineers from Tech Workers Coalition. Tech Workers Coalition exists to build worker power in the tech industry. This week, they published a story by lead organizer Sherry Stanley in their …
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Mass rejections
First, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Sherry, lead organizer for Turkopticon. I have been a Turker for going on 6 years. You may ask why did I finally decide to step up and work to make Turk better? Two words: MASS REJECTION. My personal story involves having a great history of finding good new …
My Mturk Story, Part 1,
It was five years ago that I discovered Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT.) A chaotic set of events led me to find it and as I’ve become part of the turker community I have learned that everyone has a story. This is mine. When I was 30 years old I decided to go back to school …
As a moderator on TO,
I spend a lot of time reading reviews from our awesome community. This week, while leaving a review of my own, I started thinking about how I’ve fallen short as a reviewer myself. I am much quicker to leave a negative review for a requester than a positive one. Many of us on TO are …
New Pay buckets for Reviews
After careful consideration we’ve decided to temporarily implement pay brackets in place of the current 1-5 scale rating for pay. The current rating system doesn’t take into account workers being spread across the globe and other various influences that affect judgement of pay. We hope this will help workers better determine hits they want to …