I ended up submitting more than 400 hits on Mechanical Turk by the time I went to sleep last night. The approvals seem to have slowed down for some reason and out of the 700+ hits I've submitted so far, over 300 are still in pending status. This is slightly worrisome, so I'll probably hold off on doing more for a while until I start seeing them processed. I'm loathe to continue doing work without getting paid, even if it is only about nine dollars we're talking about.
Last night I was working on Image Adjustment hits mostly from Miami and a few from Dallas and Philadelphia. I think part of the appeal for doing this is just to see the pictures. I enjoy driving around just to drive around, and the pictures you look at for these tasks represent that. It's interesting to see what's going on in some of the pictures. I haven't seen anything weird yet, but you get to see people going about their daily business, unaware that someone is driving by taking a series of pictures.
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So please tell me, Can you make a living from Mechanical Turk? What's your average $/hour? NICE BLOG!!
I've been playing with mTurk too and this is what I found out. Now that the servers are running smoothly I can do about 100 hits in less then 20 minutes. So that's about 300 hits in an hour. At .03 cents a hit that comes out to be about $9/hour.
Keep the blog going, I'd like to see more discussion on mTurk.
Down for maintance right now...hopefully will fix the long waits on pending that people are having.
I made a blog on this too http://mechanical-turk.blogspot.com/
which I have some funny pics from the blockview on.
anyways I'm at almost 2k would've got there today if it hadn't been for system maintance.
I'd love to get more $/hour figures. I'm curious if this service can hurdle Minimum Wage.. If it can't, i'm curious who this service was designed for.
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