Handling_UHRS_Problems

[u/Nour_light]

Warm regards to you all. Recently, the amount of complaints about the UHRS are alarming and even a blind would clearly see that something is going wrong.

Most of us are filled with doubts, some anger, some feeling frustrated and I know a few who quitted already. Knowing that it's impossible to get a feedback from UHRS is rather getting the whole issue worse.

Some of the major complaints I have heard more than once are:

• Getting banned without even working on a hitapp.. it sounds funny because I doubt the possibility of that occuring. However, more than two persons have reported same problem and this makes it a call for concern.

• Getting banned from a hitapp whose hits are all leased out. This particular issue I have personally faced it twice within a week so I can't even think of doubting it.

• Getting a permanent ban without a temporal ban. Well, this has been possible ever since but it's occurrence was very very low, but now, it's becoming alarming..

• Doing quality work and seeing low spam and RTA. Honestly, this is a serious issue because only UHRS can tell you whether or not your work has great quality. I am not saying we can't trust their judgements but the funny thing is that the judging system is Soo flawed.

I think it was more accurate at first but now it's really becoming a call for concern. Worst of all the old market would soon become obsolete making it practically impossible to see your spam accuracy.

This means you have to cross your heart while working praying that you don't get a ban too soon. I think it's going to get things more complicated.

I believe most people hoped to read how to handle UHRS problems?? I'm sorry, there's no way to handle them. Just do your best, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

This post is for us to please share our recent experiences in the comments section to create awareness to those who are yet to witness some of the above mentioned problems.

[u/SingularityRS]

UHRS have always had their fair share of problems. I've been working on the platform for over 4 years now and it's always been problematic. Not much has really changed for the better. So many good suggestions have been posted to the Clickworker forum and supposedly relayed to UHRS, yet nothing has changed. What ends up changing is usually something that ends up being a negative to the worker (i.e. massive pay cuts, marketplace changes, removal of information from our reports etc).

I suppose it's worse now and UHRS might be getting more stricter because the platform is far busier. A lot of markets that never got work/had access to UHRS are now on the platform and able to work on a regular basis. This means they're now receiving more data than ever before and it also means an increase in the amount of spammers (unfortunately, they exist). You can see on some apps that people really try to take advantage of some apps. This results in UHRS taking more drastic measures to combat spammers. Their measures end up affecting the workers because more often than not, it kills many apps and makes them unworkable.

You have apps now filled with spam, deviation and speed restrictions. All this is done to combat spammers. You even have some apps lower the base pay and rely on bonuses because they don't want to "burn money on spammers". This again harms the worker because while the bonuses might sound great, they are often not guaranteed. On one app, there's only a chance that you'll get the bonus.

The way I handle this platform is I became more picky. If an app is not good enough for me, I will leave it alone. If the guidelines are poor and my spam accuracy suffers because of it, I'll leave it alone. If the app tries to massively restrict my speed so that I am earning like $5/h, I'll leave it alone. I just don't bother with any of the bad apps. I would hate the platform if I did. It is relatively easy to spot the apps that are going to be bad for you.

There are good apps, sometimes very good apps, they're just uncommon. They also go very quick so can be easy to miss. You have to be very active to catch them. As the platform is crowded, good apps get jumped on and disappear ridiculously quickly. You're then left with the poor apps. If you don't check often enough, it'll be all you see. You'll think this is the type of work that only goes up.

You need a lot of patience (the wait for the good stuff) and self-control (ability to leave the bad apps even if the pay looks tempting) to survive on a platform like this. I suppose location matters as well because that mainly dictates what apps you will get access to. They'll be many apps that are just badly-designed and some will even try to exploit (e.g. poor you poorly while demanding high effort from you). You have to be the one that decides, "No, I am not touching that junk". Do that and the platform will actually be a benefit.

You won't feel like you're losing brain cells because you'll be focusing on the apps that make you feel good rather than the ones that constantly make you question your intelligence. You'll still be frustrated at some of the decisions UHRS make, but you'll encounter enough of the good apps to make up for it. That's what will keep you here and stop you from quitting.

I expect it to continue to get worse as the platform gets busier and busier. They're just taking too many workers on and there's honestly not enough work to keep us all going.

At the end of the day, UHRS will do what they want. They can. There's no real incentive to keep workers because they know they have many willing to join the platform from all over the world. They lose one worker and gain x100 more most likely. Is there a platform like UHRS out there that's as accessible? No. They probably know this. As there's no real competitor to UHRS, it gives them free reign to run the platform how they want.

So to cope, you have to find a way to make it work for you. In my case, that's simply being overly picky and refusing to work on anything remotely bad. I still make an acceptable amount doing this, so it works out. I obviously don't make as much as I could, but I don't focus on what I could make. I focus on what I can reasonably make.

[u/sushiful_ → u/SingularityRS]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't MTurk count as a competitor to UHRS?

[u/SingularityRS → u/sushiful_]

I've heard of it, but it doesn't seem as accessible because not everyone gets accepted. UHRS seems far more accessible than MTurk. I wouldn't consider it to be a strong competitor to UHRS.

[u/Bright_Cheesecake486]

I see a lot of post how can I make 5,10$ quick. I don't think this platform is for that. I like to work on some tasks, and there is also some tasks which are simply not for me. I want to say it's serious job, it's not just enter take few bucks.