[Air-L] Examples about problems with Amazon´s Mechanical Turk

[Alejandro Tortolini]

Thank you very much, Xanat for sharing, I agree with you about reviews and
ratings about Mechanical Turk. My main concern aims to the unilateral
decision of acceptance and closening of AMT accounts, and what that means
to people who look at this tool as a main job. Can you give some suggestion
about it? Thanks in advance,

Alejandro Tortolini
https://www.clippings.me/users/aletorto <https://tinyurl.com/yaewgsjx>




El mié., 31 oct. 2018 a las 23:03, Xanat Meza (<kt_designbox at yahoo.com>)
escribió:

> Hello!
>
> I have never used Mechanical Turk, but I remember a similar service called
> Freelancer. The person I was working with first boosted of being extremely
> good, to later express (when we were midway with the project) that it was
> too difficult. We somehow adapted the project to finish it on time, but
> what really made me cringe was how much pressure he made on giving him the
> top review and rating, when we barely completed the project on time and
> with the very minimum requirements. Not much later, this person was kicked
> out of the site and stopped the appi that he connected to our project, so
> it stopped working until we linked an appi of our own. Then he asked if the
> project was working (we believe he wanted more money for "fixing" it). This
> was a person that had around 90% glowing reviews and ratings. What I want
> to say, is that at least on my experience, reviews and ratings are
> deceiving of the real quality of an internet-based worker. This was the
> first and only experience I have had with such websites. In the future, I
> am planning to reach out to people who I either know personally or who
> might know someone interested in my area of work.
>
> Hope this helps,
> ------------------------------
> *Xanat V. Meza*
>
> *Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain Sciences*
> University of Tsukuba
> *M.A. Media and Communication*
>
> *Yeungnam University*
>
> *B.D. Graphic Communication DesignUniversidad Autonoma Metropolitana*
>
>
> El jueves, 1 de noviembre de 2018 7:59:57 a. m. GMT+9, Alejandro Tortolini
> <alemtor at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>
> Hi all, I need some help: I´m writing about Amazon´s Mechanical Turk, and
> some months ago I made a list of examples of people who had some bad
> experiencies with it, but I can´t retrieve it from my social bookmarks
> (Diigo). I remember specially the case of an indian or birmanian man, who
> bought several computers and hired some neighbors to work in Amazon´s
> Mechanical Turk, but suddenly and without explanation Amazon closed his
> account. Anybody knows something about this case, or similar?
> Thanks,
>
> Alejandro Tortolini
> UdeSA - Buenos Aires - Argentina
> https://www.clippings.me/users/aletorto <https://tinyurl.com/yaewgsjx>
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