Friday, February 19, 2016
Announcement - October and November Awards 2015 Amazon Turk Easy Hit
Announcements
Hello fellow Turkers! It's that time again! There is lots to talk about so without fellow ado, let's get started.
Regarding the Monthly Awards
We started this forum nearly 4 years ago. With just a handful of original subscribers, this community has grown and grown and grown, widely beyond my original expectations. For a long time, I felt the monthly awards were needed to keep this community flourishing and so we've kept at it.
Now, I feel that our forum is self sustaining. This is Reddit afterall, and you can see the HITs posted right form your frontpage. Poster's share posts because other's are also willing to share posts. I no longer feel that the awards are necessary to keep our forum thriving.
So we're going to do away with the awards after December's payouts.
There is still about $100 in reserve from user donations and I think this money should go right back to you. So I'm asking you all what should we do with these funds? I don't mind passing the torch and handing the funds off to someone responsible if one of you wants to continue the monthly awards. I'll even be willing to train someone in the process. That said, I think this should come from you all, the community, and not be a responsibility of the moderators.
I'd also be willing to post it as a free prize HIT on mTurk, similar to how we've done celebratory HITs during our anniversaries in the past.
Or I could donate it to charity - tis the season afterall. We could vote to choose where we want it to go.
The one thing I won't do is keep it - these donations were for all of your hard work afterall, and I just don't feel it would be fair to all of you who put so much work into continuing to make this community so great.
Mod Changes
We've made some mod changes over the past month or so. We've lost a few and promoted others. I'd like to thank those who put so much heart and work into this sub. I'm looking forward to seeing what our new moderators have in store for the community. In addition, now that the monthly awards are ending, I think it's my time to step down. This community needs a leader who is an advocate for turkers and sadly, I don't feel that I have enough time to allocate in order to do this effectively. I will stay on to assist for the next few months and then finally excuse myself when the time comes. No fanfare necessary, it's been a pleasure building this community and serving you all.
New mods needed!
We are excited to announce that /r/hitsworthturkingfor is looking for new moderators! We are a great community of over 30,000 turkers who have helped each other make money for over three years now. /u/sulfurboy and /u/m1327 will remain mods. However, we no longer turk full-time anymore like we once did. As such we understand the importance of having moderators who are active on a daily basis within the community who can have a better feel of the trends within turking and moderate the small day to day issues. Thus, we are turning to you the community to apply or nominate people who you think would make good mods. Some things we are looking for (note none of these are requirements, just things that would be helpful)
1) Being active on the subreddit. This is obviously most important. We need people who have been here for awhile (at least a few months) and who actively post. This doesn't necessarily mean only people who post hits, but people who we can see comment on hits or point out dead hits or issues, etc. 2) Being civil and nice to other members of the subreddit. We strive to be a friendly and non-confrontational community. We do not want people who continually butt heads with other users and can't maturely resolve differences. 3) Having experience as a moderator on other subs. This is by no means a requirement, /u/sulfurboy started as a new moderator and has served us very well, but it would be helpful to know if you have shown the maturity to earn moderator status on other subs. 4) CSS or programming knowledge. Again not required, but it'd help your case if you knew some code.
Feel free to post questions or nominations in this thread, or if need be pm the moderators directly.
Awards
Shiny Coins
All of our income for the awards is sourced from users like you.
If you see a fellow turker here with a gold coin beside their name, please take a second out of your time to thank them for helping us make this a thriving community for turkers.
We will still be collecting donations during the month of December. Please feel free to contribute as your donations will go right to our top posters.
Bitcoin:
1EyacQJ9uuUzpoC2ZmJB1Aeesi1JqGAiKV
Paypal:
king_gouda "at" yahoo.com
If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please PM us with your donation information so that we can verify our records.
Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - October
Name | Score | Payout |
---|---|---|
MartyMcfly6 | 2055 | $3.24 |
bigboy512 | 1097 | $1.62 |
internet_enthusiast | 908 | $0.81 |
Soulsetmusic | 850 | $0.81 |
dr_dalek | 579 | $0.32 |
sugarplumcow | 505 | $0.32 |
bigshitpoppin | 436 | $0.16 |
mturkpolice | 424 | $0.16 |
Duke713 | 419 | $0.16 |
robmcroberson | 332 | $0.16 |
Highest Voted HITs - October
Name | Score | Payout |
---|---|---|
cryptenigma | 86 | $3.24 |
tstone8 | 62 | $1.62 |
Soulsetmusic | 61 | $0.81 |
internet_enthusiast | 58 | $0.81 |
aj0185 | 53 | $0.32 |
Compiled 11/8/15 ~ 13:00 EST
Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - November
Name | Score | Payout |
---|---|---|
MartyMcfly6 | 2214 | $3.24 |
sugarplumcow | 889 | $1.62 |
internet_enthusiast | 705 | $0.81 |
dr_dalek | 677 | $0.81 |
hitsworth | 459 | $0.32 |
bigboy512 | 379 | $0.32 |
mturkpolice | 332 | $0.16 |
sottovoce2015 | 324 | $0.16 |
AnatomicalHeart | 291 | $0.16 |
Sabblesbox | 278 | $0.16 |
Highest Voted HITs - November
Name | Score | Payout |
---|---|---|
MartyMcfly6 | 74 | $3.24 |
internet_enthusiast | 73 | $1.62 |
baldturkey8 | 69 | $0.81 |
breakinthelaw88 | 64 | $0.81 |
sugarplumcow | 59 | $0.32 |
Compiled 12/7/15 ~ 13:00 EST
Those who have won an award will receive a message from a mod that will contain a link to a HIT on mTurk created specifically for you. You'll also be given a unique passcode that you must enter on the HIT to receive your award.
The HIT will expire 2 weeks after you receive the message. If you do not accept it within those 2 weeks, it will be forfeited and added back to the pool. Sorry, no exceptions.
Thanks all around and happy turking!
Submitted December 10, 2015 at 10:01AM by wildncrazyguy http://ift.tt/1SQbsbi
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