earn $$$ from Amazon's Mechanical Turk

[MyGoofy26]

Seems that there are a number of people who are setting up scripts that auto accept and auto submit (which is against the terms of this program so hopefully Amazon will start tracking the people whose accounts are managing many hundred hits per hour)

The day I posted this, there were nearly 200,000 HITs available. Apparently that same night, someone set up a bot that chewed through more than 100,000 of them.

So hopefully Amazon gets this straightened out. I made about $10 before that bot attack. Simple way to earn a lil extra while I'm chatting with friends online, waiting for them to return an IM or watching TV.

There are a LOT of people running scripts right now which is why, even with a fast connection and click accept before the page even finishes loading it still takes a bunch of tries before you actually catch one.

 

[cami89]

Seems that there are a number of people who are setting up scripts that auto accept and auto submit (which is against the terms of this program so hopefully Amazon will start tracking the people whose accounts are managing many hundred hits per hour)

I wondered about that! I haven't been able to do a single musical hit as they are assigned to someone else everytime I hit "accept". I'm on cable internet, which is pretty quick, but still can't seem to get in on a single one ]

 

[MyGoofy26]

I know - I have cable as well and I accept within a split second of "losing" a HIT and I still lose the new one.

From what I understand, a lot of the bots that people are using are auto-submitting with "Various Artists" since there are so many of those coming up. I sure hope they start suspending accounts for people who are obviously "cheating" - granted it only takes a few seconds to type out an artist name, but it's just not possible to do hundreds of these per hour, every hour, all day long.

 

[zippeedee]

Doesn't it just figure that the cheaters figured this one out so fast? If they only used their knowledge for good, we'd all be better off!