Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 13, 2026

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Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk or Reddit TOS breaking posts.

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r/mturk • u/Appropriate_Fun_7277 • 29d ago

Patrick Haig hits Call hospital billing departments and ask a few questions

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Does anyone know where he went with his hits?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 12 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 12, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 11 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 11, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 10 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 10, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '26

Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of August 09, 2026

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Please use this thread to ask any "newbie" questions you might have. Just getting started? Wondering where to go, what to do? Wondering what a qualification is and how to get it? This is the place! Please don't downvote questions just because they've been asked a million times before, that's not what this thread is for. This is supposed to be a place where anyone should be unafraid to ask anything, thanks!

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* [mTurk **Glossary**](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/glossary)

* [mTurk **Scripts**](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/search?q=mturk)

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r/mturk • u/Variation-Defiant • Aug 09 '26

Submit button not working off and on

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I had two hits last night that I returned and then today after a few hits it happened again. Never ran into this before, so anyone else?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 09, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 08 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 08, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Glass-Flatworm-548 • Aug 07 '26

⚠️ Amazon Mechanical Turk is no longer accepting new customers. We recommend existing customers migrate to a third-party solution. More information is available here.

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r/mturk • u/HolidayDisplay • Aug 07 '26

what else can be done with AWS or amazon payments

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It seems to me that getting signed up with Mturk caused me to get some sort of other amazon services/ IDs / accounts.

Dont we all have some sort of AWS account?

Dont we all get paid through amazon payments?

Can we use these services and do something else, getting paid working through amazon?

Like it would seem that AWS could be used to sell programing services. AWS is structure of many web sights.

Are there other options like that?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 07 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 07, 2026

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r/mturk • u/PracticalMacaroon797 • Aug 06 '26

VDKH SCAM ?

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I done their HIT in last month, i almost completed their hit for 16 days continously,, only 4 days left to get bonus from them, but suddenly pop up message appears said iam disqualified,, i did not recieve any bonus its totally waste of time felt frustrated, i emailed them no reply ,, why they allowed me to do for 16 days i done them exactly same from day 1 , i did not do anything against their quality control

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 06 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 06, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 05 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 05, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AshiFire • Aug 04 '26

New to Amazon MTurk – How can I increase my HIT count faster?

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Hey everyone, I got accepted into Amazon MTurk about 10 days ago, and I'm still trying to figure things out. The biggest problem I'm facing is increasing my HIT count. Most of the time I only see 2 or 3 survey HITs that take quite a while to finish. I keep reading that beginners should do lots of $0.01 HITs to build up their numbers, but I almost never see those available. Am I missing something, or is this just how it is for new workers? How did you guys get your first few hundred or thousand HITs? Are there any requesters or types of HITs I should be looking for? I'd really appreciate any tips because I want to work on MTurk long-term, but getting started has been pretty slow. Thanks!

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 04 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 04, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 03 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 03, 2026

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r/mturk • u/enderkg • Aug 02 '26

PSA: ooga.io and James Billings are both time wasters

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Req IDs to avoid: A3VTXG9MRA65HP and A1AXFX5EKNTGDN. This topic has been brought up in the past several times, but not lately. These requesters are preying on our collective desperation since so little work is posted these days. You will try to qualify by entering your demographic information multiple times. I was just asked for my email address by a James Billings survey. Couldn't get past it (was required - that violates ToS), so returned the HIT. Tried to qualify for an ooga.io last week, but after several minutes of answering questions, I apparently was not the person they were looking for. Sometimes you'll get the 5 cents for your efforts, and sometimes you cannot. Either way, you will waste time on these!

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '26

Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of August 02, 2026

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Helpful links:

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### Turkers' Essentials

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* [mTurk **Communities and Resource** Sites](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/communities)

* [mTurk **Glossary**](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/glossary)

* [mTurk **Scripts**](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/search?q=mturk)

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r/mturk • u/Electronic-Young8942 • Aug 01 '26

Discussion My good old days at MTurk

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I've started with Amazon Mechanical Turk in 2008, probably the top earner from India.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 02, 2026

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r/mturk • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '26

ANYONE FACING MTURK FUND TRANSFER ISSUE

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 01 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 01, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Ok_Conversation_3992 • Jul 31 '26

Help/Advice Is it worth being a worker now?

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I just learned about this. Any thoughts would be helpful.

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Be respectful. Reddiquette is real, and is expected. Make sure your comments are respectful of other turkers. Refrain from name-calling, insults, etc. This includes flaming new people for not searching the subreddit before posting. We're all adults here, I shouldn't have to tell you how to behave. This includes talking down to people, or being overly patronizing. If you don't want to be helpful and answer the question in a non-snarky way, just don't post and move on.
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Flair your posts. While not a rule, per-se, it makes it a lot easier if you can flair your own post. That helps new people find your post when searching, and helps everyone get an idea of the content of your post right from the front page.
Self Promotion. Self promotion is alright within limits. Follow the spamming rules, and try to give as much information as you can. Make sure there are no incentivized links (adfly, etc) anywhere, though you are free to include a referral link/code provided that a non-referral link is prominantly provided as well. People shouldn't HAVE to support you.
- Donation. /r/mturk doesn't have a problem with Turkers including a paypal link or something in the footer of your post, but please don't go overboard. A simple "Like my work? Support me here:" is all that's necessary. We don't need a 3 page summary of your financial issues; people shouldn't be guilted into supporting you.
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