05/22 - Meerkat Monday!

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electrolyte

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I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but I worked on a batch last week that was 30 hits from a new requester. I figured out after they rejected 3 of my hits and contacting them, that it was an Amazon employee high enough up to be involved in handing out masters.
Huh? You emailed a requester about rejections and got a reply from someone at Amazon about Masters?
 

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I didn't get to share my masters email with everyone because I wasn't on this forum back when I got it. So here is the one for photo moderation (back then, we got two separate emails, one for categorization and one for photo)

Congratulations! You have earned the Masters qualification for Photo Moderation. Congratulations! This is a great achievement and reflects your demonstrated excellence in completing these types of HITs.
Photo Moderation Masters is special qualification given to an elite group of Workers, who have demonstrated superior performance while completing thousands of HITs across the Marketplace. Masters must maintain this high level of performance or risk losing this distinction. Mechanical Turk has built technology which analyzes Worker performance, identifies high performing Workers and monitors their performance over time. Today, two types of Masters are available – Photo Moderation Masters and Categorization Masters.
Mechanical Turk Masters enjoy these special benefits:
• Exclusive access to HITs that require a Masters qualification.
• No more CAPTCHAs! That's right; we've removed the CAPTCHA for Masters on ALL of the HITs you complete.
• Access to a private forum just for Masters. You will receive a separate e-mail with instructions for how to join this private forum.
Kudos on earning the Photo Moderation Masters distinction!
Sincerely,
The Mechanical Turk Team
 

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Congratulations! You have qualified as a Master on Mechanical Turk. This achievement reflects your demonstrated accuracy in completing HITs. Please note you must maintain high HIT accuracy or risk losing this qualification.

Mechanical Turk Masters enjoy these special benefits:
• Access to HITs that require a Masters qualification.
• No more CAPTCHAs! That's right; we've removed the CAPTCHA for Masters on ALL of the HITs you complete.

Kudos on earning the Masters distinction!

Sincerely,
The Mechanical Turk Team

 

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I'm at 11 months and 85,250 approved, 14 rejections. I am so happy, but scared it's all a joke . . . :eek:
I've got a bunch more hits than you, but also quite a few more rejections. I dont think either has anything to do with who gets it.
 
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so how many relatively active turkers are there?
Total, counting Masters and non-Masters? The estimates are around 20k, but that's a rough estimate since different researchers do their estimates differently and define "active" differently.
 
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Title:Answer a survey about buying add-ons with other products
Requester:Amazon Requester Inc. - Add-on Products
Description: Give us your opinion about buying an add-on product along with your base purchase
Time: 60 minutes
HITs Available: 1200
Reward:$0.02
Qualifications:
CompletedAttachAgreement has not been granted; CompletedAttachLikelihood has not been granted;

everybody who got masters today did these hits? they posted this batch on other dates too.
 
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