MTURK [Warning]- Careful How You Use It!

englandrm

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Nov 11, 2010

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• Jan 20, 2012

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Mturk is a program by Amazon, where people can handle small tasks for a very, very low price. I was using it for Twitter Re-Tweets, which should have been fine; but they just banned my account. Something about "advertising."

Just a heads up to anyone who was thinking about doing that.

Thanks. ~englandrm

 

psytrance

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Jan 20, 2012

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• Jan 20, 2012

• #2

you get what you pay for. i learned this long time ago...

 

download

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May 4, 2010

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• Jan 20, 2012

• #3

englandrm said:

I was using it for Twitter Re-Tweets, which should have been fine; but they just banned my account.

Click to expand...

Twitter or Amazon? In any case, getting banned by either is indesirable

 

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thedelimiter

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Nov 11, 2011

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• Jan 20, 2012

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If anyone needs PHP code that uses MTurk API to generate HITs, I've already got one working for outsourcing article-writing.

It still needs tweaks because only bots seem to reply to my HITs. But I'm working on passing QualificationRequirements so less bots accept the HITs.

PM me if interested.

 

BHopkins

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Dec 31, 2010

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• Jan 21, 2012

• #5

I've had a lot of accounts banned by mTurk.

 

englandrm

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• Jan 21, 2012
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Amazon owns Mturk, and I was paying people to post on their twitter accounts. So the Mturk account got banned.