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« on: November 29, 2005, 03:11:44 pm »
www.mturk.com is an interesting new online job made by amazon.  Its a contracting job and the amount u get paid is on how fast you can click.  The jobs are called HITs short for human intelligence tasks, each one of these " hits" gives you 3 cents.  I can do about 5-6 a minute so i get about 8-9 bucks an hour ( not bad considering you can work however much you want and whenever)
now that pays more then my real job at a grocery store for 6.75 an hour =D

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Re: mturk
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2005, 05:23:10 pm »
Yeah, I saw this on some forums a few days ago. Here's a set of forums dedicated to this:

http://www.turking.com/

I haven't had a chance to turk much, but I will definitely be checking it out - there's some programming books I want, and my mom likes to read too. A LOT. :)
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Re: mturk
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2005, 02:08:36 pm »
wow thats extreemly helpfull! i was thinking of creating a preloading software to double my mturk income but its already there! ty man!

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Re: mturk
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2005, 03:45:46 pm »
dang with mturking scripts iv upgraded my income to 20-30 bucks an hour nice! thanks again

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Re: mturk
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2005, 02:59:06 pm »
Which scripts you use? I need to make some money off this, and I've only made like 5 bucks total. I'd love to be making $20-$30 an hour!
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Re: mturk
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2005, 09:14:06 am »
wtf? Me want in too.  :) Me want earn lots money.

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Re: mturk
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2005, 11:59:24 am »
Hey Infernal, Have you actually gotten payed any of the money that you claim to have made?
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Re: mturk
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2005, 02:32:40 pm »
I need money. Someone please help me do this with mturk. Need intstructions now.

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Re: mturk
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2005, 06:32:44 pm »
-Dawn- yes u do get paid hehe amazon isnt currupt...yet ( =. jst a few accounts have problems tranferin to a bank account like mine but u jst have to talk to customer sopport and they fix it all up.  Iv made only 35$ to date.

What scripts do i use?: Open up mozila (its important ur in mozzila when u do this) go to www.turking.com make an account go into downloads turking help and then firefox extention.  Install the extention it will warn u that it might be a virus... dont worry its not. then once ur done u will be prompted to restart firefox. Do this and then go back to turking.com sign in go to downloads turking help then click on turkop.  It should come up with a long script click tools install user script... hapying turking!
any questions pm me

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Re: mturk
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2005, 06:36:04 pm »
and correction im only making 8 bucks an hour with scripts considering theres no more picture hits and they gayed up the artist hits to make them take longer... but i should be making a good 20 dollars an hour once my qualification for podcast clears up...

PS: if ur fluent in french and english u can make an OK salary translating at mturk.com its only 1$ every 500 charecters but u can make around 20$ an hour doing that...

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Re: mturk
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2005, 07:10:50 pm »
Lol, I am very fluent at it. I just used google translate... I haven't seen if they cleared me or not yet :)
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Re: mturk
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2005, 08:15:41 pm »
LOL tell me if that works =D

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Re: mturk
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2005, 01:55:23 am »
I've made 60 bucks with this.  However, with the holidays, it's next to impossible to turk ANYTHING on mturk.com.  No HITs are available anymore.
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Re: mturk
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2005, 08:38:49 pm »
Yes, well i just received my qualification for Podcast.  Castingwords is opening up theyr online store soon so there will be many podcaste hits soon for qualified users giving an average of 4$ a peice ( =.

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Re: mturk
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2005, 01:40:48 am »
4 bucks?  Try 4 cents.  That's what it's telling me at least.
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« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2005, 07:36:16 am »
no those are the unqualified podcastes.  If you take the qualification test, and pass, there are hits that take about 10 minutes to transcribe and give you from 3-6 dollars. Once whisperwords store opens up youll see more of those.

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Re: mturk
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2005, 03:19:54 pm »
Interesting . . . I'll have to try that.
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Re: mturk
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2005, 04:21:19 pm »
Dialup does not alply.

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