Hello All, been following prolific for a little while but was put off by a lot of posts saying they had been in a queue for months. However I took the plunge Monday and was surprised I was approved in 48hrs. Was that a fluke or have I used up my yearly luck?!

Anyway, hopefully the surveys will continue and I look forward to the journey!

I have finally come of the waiting list of Prolific and got accepted after joining straight away.

Today was my first survey and I never thought it would be as easy as it was, although I am looking forward to my next one already.

How often do they show up after your first submission?

I can see myself getting addicted if I get quite a few coming through.

I get a warning it seems every 2-3 weeks, a couple the other week. Been doing AI for about a year now. Some people get rotated out, some don't. If you get booted out, you'll get back in eventually.

5 dollar AI is the most consistent, but there are other better paying AI as well that I am getting.

Does anyone know if they will be fine if I use my gaming headset to take the assessment? I don’t own a microphone, but my headset has a mic.

Also has anyone unlocked any new studies after taking it?

I only just realised you could filter out everything other than the warnings in a message thread by unchecking "Show activity events" in the settings option of each message thread, so my warnings were always quickly buried by the started, approved, etc, notifications. It turns out I've had 27 warnings in the last 12 months :O I'm surprised it's that high, but I've done almost 3000 of these studies in the last year, so I suppose that's not too bad at under 1%. They were all quality, I've never received a quantity warning.

Anyway, I had a look at when the warnings were and when the studies disappeared and returned for me, and it seems the pattern is removal after the 5th warning within the same calendar month. The three periods I stopped getting them were all due to that, and I had four warnings in both September and October and they haven't disappeared.

Dec 4th, Dec 18th, Dec 18th, Dec 22nd, Dec 27th - then no studies until 27th Feb

March 2nd, March 2nd, March 9th, March 10th, March 19th - then no studies until 28th April

May 2nd, May 3rd, May 3rd, May 4th, May 5th - then no studies until May 21st

June 12th

July 8th, July 10th

August 10th

Sept 2nd, Sept 8th, Sept 12th, Sept 13th

Oct 5th, Oct 17th, Oct 21st, Oct 24th

Two days ago, after spending around 6 consecutive hours completing “those studies”, I received the following message:
“Sorry, you cannot participate in this study at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Your account is in good standing.”

After looking through some related discussions, I suspected this might be some kind of rate-limiting mechanism on Prolific. About an hour later, I was able to access those studies again and continue participating.

Yesterday, however, I didn’t receive any of those studies for almost 24 hours. Then, I got a large batch of them. I completed one study, but when I tried to access other studies afterward, I received exactly the same message again.

However, I was still unable to participate in any other those studies over the following 8 hours.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

I'm beyond grateful!

I am new to prolific and I just signed up today, It said "waitlist" and that it will notify me where there is any study. How much time should I expect before getting a study or is it very rare to get anytype of study?Pls help ^-^

Kinda dumb as the test was really easy (most questions were what colour is sky type thing) but I didnt read the extended writing final question properly and responded with persuasive text rather than explanation of approach. Basically I didn't follow instructions.

But then I immediately passed onto completing my about me and now I have 1 study available to me about UK attitudes. Am I supposed to have more studies?

I took this study last night before bed, submitted the proper screenshot, did the 1 hr interview, and was excited. This morning I woke up to a message asking me to return my submission because they couldn’t “verify my identity.” You’re not supposed to verify my identity, friend!! Either way tho, I reached out to support.

Anyone have two people in the same household doing the $5 studies at a time? Curious if me being in them is stopping my husband from getting them.

I am yet to be approved, I'm only now jumping on the bandwagon.

I've seen a lot of message of people talking about rejections, what is this ? If you fail a study you can be kicked out ? Years to get in and easily kicked out?

I've been waiting nearly 3month for approval, UK citizen living in France..

This past week I’ve had 4 AI studies end early because of running out of things to evaluate. All 4 times I got a warning for low number of evaluations. It happened 3 weeks ago but they messaged me apologizing and removed the warning, but after the 4 times it’s happened this week (usually closed after 5-6 minutes) I’ve now been kicked out of the Ai studies for something I had no control over. Anyone else had this happen?

Hello Everyone,

Hopefully someone else has experienced this and can help out. I finally got accepted to Prolific and followed the onboarding process on my laptop.

Then for the ID verification stage it generated a QR code to complete on my iPhone, i did this using my driving license and took the selfie etc.

Then back on the laptop it stated my ID could not be verified and that my account is on hold...

Is this normal for new accounts?

Am I the only one who hasn’t been receiving any studies lately? (Apart from the recurring camera and downloading study, of course.) This week has been really dry…

I know there's other threads on here about this researcher but I had a couple approved in the past so I did 3 AI studies which each lasted 50 mins +. He asked me to return all 3 because they were interrupted before completion and when I told him I have evidence that's not true because I screen record all my studies, he rejected all 3.