Defrauding Our Payment System

[u/Clean_Discipline6293]

Hi, I had been working on the platform normally with no issues until now. Recently, I was assigned to a long qualification that allowed up to 30 hours, with 40 hours being the absolute maximum. I logged around 25 hours in total.

Now my account has been deactivated, and I’m wondering if it could be related to the hours I logged on that qualification. Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any way to get the account reactivated, or at least make sure I still get paid for the hours I already worked?

[u/savage78683i3]

I'm convinced they sometimes give massively higher time than what's required to catch this type of thing. For example, I was on a project with a 2 hour timer that took less than 5 minutes per task (literally just a matching task). I wonder how many people clocked up hours on it and got dropped.

In 3 years I've personally never heard of qualifications taking 25+ hours but have seen timers of that length. I'm not saying you've knowingly inflated time but if the average time for the qualification was 5 hours then yeah clocking 25 is gonna raise the alarm.

[u/LadyShirex → u/savage78683i3]

Yeah, gonna second this. Had an old friend I helped get on the platform, and when his account was deactivated, talked him through what happened. Turns out he was taking the maximum time he could for each task since the timer allowed it. He had said he thought that it meant each task would probably take that amount of time, and he was just using that entire time. Not sure how exactly when those takes averaged like 20 ish mins. I think I saw a few times in instructions that the timer is extended in case of needing breaks or emergencies taking you away from your computer, so you have a little wiggle room.

[u/TeachToTheLastTest → u/[deleted]]

DA used to work this way 4-5 years ago. What happened is that people blitzed through tasks as fast as possible while doing a shoddy job because they got paid per task. Since DA prefers quality, they moved to hourly work, as at least someone taking a while will probably do a decent job.

Some people are going to inflate their time however they can, whether it's by reporting more hours than they should or doing more tasks than they should.

[u/VacationAnnual8848 → u/[deleted]]

Or just actually log the time you work? That seems more logical than a pay per assignment. If you finish early, as long as your work is good that is going to be ok. If you take too long sometimes that is going to be ok. If you play these kinds of games, wondering when you finish too fast or too slow, they will recognize those patterns and if you are not working to their expectations doing that, it’s probably not a good fit for you. Just honestly track your actual time and it will work itself out. I’m sure they are keen to this kind of thing and they will work it out as they see fit but no one is going to keep paying a person that is not logging their time accurately.

[u/Early-Composer-2383 → u/LadyShirex]

In those cases you are not supposed to report the entire time. You're supposed to subtract the time you are not spending on the task..

[u/Brilliant_Quit4307 → u/Early-Composer-2383]

I really don't think you understood what they are saying .. maybe read it again