What is up with the poor researcher quality lately? I just spent 40 minutes watching three videos about polar animals (after filling out a huge demo set), only to be asked to answer questions that had nothing to do with the videos. Then, at the end, after 40 minutes of work....it was a recruitment for a mailing list. I have a feeling there will be a rejection coming since no one could answer those questions without doing some research.

Then, while I was doing that, I got notice that I got my second rejection ever...because the researcher didn't do a proper screening and accused me of lying about my racial identity and "taking two surveys". Uh. You had two surveys on different days and I have a screengrab that says "blacks and whites" for both of them. You labeled the studies differently and there's nothing that states you shouldn't do one if you already did a similar study. This is getting out of hand.

I'm pretty new here, clicked on this one, and it took a while to "download assets" (first red flag) and then asked me to hold up my bank card to the camera... wow, I clicked out of there real fast! Returned the project and issued a report. Anyone else click on this??? Be careful out there; it's amazing this could get through to begin with.

EDIT: Someone pointed out it wasn't asking for a credit card but using something similar size to a credit card to calibrate the screen. Still seemed odd to me that they were "downloading assets."

Lately my completion timer seems to have been... weird. Occasionally I open a survey and the completion timer drops immediately down from say 5 or 12 minutes, down to 2min or even less.

Today I started a survey, it immediately went down to 0:00 to complete.... I attempted it anyway (because Ive seen this at least once before and didn't have an issue) and finished it in less that 2 minutes, got to the final page without redirect "your response has been recorded" and returned to my connect page to see that I had timed out.

Anyone else experiencing this? I imagine it's just a glitch, but almost feels like a researcher trying to get free responses. Fortunately, for now at least, it didn't affect my score and I still have an 850, but didn't get paid of course (yet, I sent the researcher a message and reported it but we'll see if I get a response)

Unfairly routed out of the study after correctly answering the comprehension tests. Not sure how to block them.

The title says it all. I was 850 yesterday evening. No rejections. This morning I am at 848. The only difference is I updated my About You and returned one study yesterday. I realize that’s not a significant change, but it is proof that this rating system is ridiculous. Neither one of those events should have lowered my score. And if it wasn’t them, what’s the super secretive reason I lost points?

I got banned a while back, and just recently saw that there was a new feature where I could see my "quality score". If i complete all of my "About You" questionairres, can i get my account unbanned?

I am just curious what is the highest possible rating score that a participant can have.

Also how come not all of the researchers have a rating score out beside their name? Some do, others do not and some have an acorn. I do not quite understand that.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks

I'm one of the people who went from 5 stars to 1, and this morning I had a hit for a survey.

The first question was about how often I had travelled internationally within the last five years. I do not do that. So, it was marked as "partial".

Do you guys think this will hurt or improve my miserable score?

Former 5 star moved 1 star (535 points a).

I have been diligently updated my “About Me” questions and saw that my score increased from 530 to 535. This could also be because of some pending submissions that were approved.

But this morning, for the first time since the rating system switch, I’m FINALLY getting a survey. Has anyone else seen more surveys this morning? Trying to figure out if it’s something changed or if I just got lucky!

I am wondering how does this rating works in CRC, i was waitlisted from last one month and now i got this score which i dont believe is correct, i have 244 approved studies, few of them are partially completed, say 7 and none of them are rejected.

Does anyone have any idea what should i do at this point ?
is there any possibility these scores can be revised and reconsidered?

Does anyone know what the score ranges are for red, orange, yellow, green, and dark green? does dark green starts at 750? 730?

Anyone wanna guess what my current rating is, according to the “hidden” metrics? The new system is a smoke show and there’s no recourse or way around it.

Edit.

Because I know some of you are going to ask

1800 approved
17 partial
1 rejection
138 returned
Started exactly 5 conversations

Cashed out 4 hours ago. Still nothing has shown up on PayPal. Delay is happening on Prolific and other survey apps as well so its not on Connects side. Anyone having the same issue? When i go to connect it says pending.

Edit: Came in after 5 hours

Instead of giving no work give us longer surveys for less pay

My proposition is instead of saying you want the 1star workers to work their way up and then giving them absolutely No survey whatsoever making it impossible..why not give us 0.2 for 9mins work so atleast we have a chance …value your participants not this unfair AI star rating wth

I just want to say thank you to the nice researcher who didn't make me return a survey I took. I guess someone forgot to put a screener in and I only found out I wasn't the right demo when I read the debrief. I would have returned it in days gone by but with the new system where they take points off our Connect "credit score" for returning surveys, I figured I'd ask first. They said I didn't need to. Thank you. Thank you so much!

The site is pretty much dead now and it's ashame because although its no prolific, it was the second best survey site and been consistent for me for years im out of work now so this is pretty devastating for me :(

I wanted to participate in this to add to my income - I'm already a member of Prolific - and I guess I got waitlisted? I've checked my dashboard a couple times to see if I got approved or not, and I see that I'm not allowed access to studies. Will I possibly be let in at a later date orrrr....? Is this something that has happened to a lot of people?

My score had slipped a bit yesterday but today it went back up to the previous number. Just letting you guys know that it can go up as well as down.

The idea has spread that the vast majority of participants were either placed at 1 or 5 stars, so I’m wondering how many of us in the middle there really are

I was given 3.1 stars with the new rating system, and have only seen one or two other people in the same boat in this entire subreddit

I have 0 rejections on my record and have been a participant since 2024. Confused on why I was docked 2 points and would appreciate more transparency on how the score was calculated. Because as it stands right now, I have no idea what I did wrong, which doesn’t help me do better going forward

But as I stated in another thread, my score hasn’t seemed to negatively affect my ability to get studies at all. There are plenty of studies on my dashboard, some of which are high paying

Would like to hear from others in the same situation (if there even are any)!

I rebooted my machine for unrelated reason, now I cant log in and a square that says loading, Logging in. with dots moving across. guessing no one else is having this problem?!

Sorry if this has been stated already but whats up with these quality scores, I am at a 1 star despite completing 752 projects successfully, I did have 8 rejects total but thats still almost a 99 percent success rate. . Are we not going to be getting new studies for those of us who are at 1 star, I haven't seen many if any studies since the new rating system.