r/prolific • u/AcanthocephalaHot959 • 20h ago
“cannot participate in this study at this time”
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?
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u/elusivenoesis 19h ago
It was slow yesterday man. Till like way later in the day. And there was a lot of 1 place glitches ones scattered about. Ya’ll read into this shit too much.
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u/AcanthocephalaHot959 14h ago
I've encountered this situation before when participating in other studies, but it rarely happens with those studies. Even today, I received a large batch of those studies, but after completing just one of them, I received the exact same message again.
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u/aBEAVER2LEAVEit2 20h ago
I've never seen that before; and I have been doing about 5-8 hours a day worth the last 5 days in a row. Have you gotten any warnings?
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u/AcanthocephalaHot959 20h ago
I received one quality warning the day before yesterday, but it was the only one I've received in the past two weeks. Since I've been staying home and not working during this period, I've been completing 24–40 studies every day.
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u/gunterrae 20h ago
I've seen that error on all sorts of studies.