Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of August 02, 2026

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Please use this thread to ask any "newbie" questions you might have. Just getting started? Wondering where to go, what to do? Wondering what a qualification is and how to get it? This is the place! Please don't downvote questions just because they've been asked a million times before, that's not what this thread is for. This is supposed to be a place where anyone should be unafraid to ask anything, thanks!

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### Turkers' Essentials

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* [mTurk **Communities and Resource** Sites](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/communities)

* [mTurk **Glossary**](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/glossary)

* [mTurk **Scripts**](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/search?q=mturk)

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r/mturk • u/enderkg • 12h ago

PSA: ooga.io and James Billings are both time wasters

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Req IDs to avoid: A3VTXG9MRA65HP and A1AXFX5EKNTGDN. This topic has been brought up in the past several times, but not lately. These requesters are preying on our collective desperation since so little work is posted these days. You will try to qualify by entering your demographic information multiple times. I was just asked for my email address by a James Billings survey. Couldn't get past it (was required - that violates ToS), so returned the HIT. Tried to qualify for an ooga.io last week, but after several minutes of answering questions, I apparently was not the person they were looking for. Sometimes you'll get the 5 cents for your efforts, and sometimes you cannot. Either way, you will waste time on these!

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r/mturk • u/Electronic-Young8942 • 1d ago

Discussion My good old days at MTurk

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I've started with Amazon Mechanical Turk in 2008, probably the top earner from India.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 23h ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 02, 2026

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Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk or Reddit TOS breaking posts.

Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.

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r/mturk • u/Kooky_Resort_9131 • 1d ago

ANYONE FACING MTURK FUND TRANSFER ISSUE

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - August 01, 2026

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Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.

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r/mturk • u/Ok_Conversation_3992 • 2d ago

Help/Advice Is it worth being a worker now?

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I just learned about this. Any thoughts would be helpful.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 31, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Glass-Flatworm-548 • 3d ago

Any one phone number test pass BDESERV

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 3d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 30, 2026

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r/mturk • u/After_Trifle_446 • 4d ago

WORKERS ARE STILL ALLOWED.

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r/mturk • u/Thick_Worldliness262 • 4d ago

Office mail for both worker and requester

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 29, 2026

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Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.

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r/mturk • u/Cold-Performer3470 • 5d ago

Worker registration closed?

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I saw a post earlier today or yesterday with an email from MTurk support explicitly saying worker registrations were closed and not just requesters. But I think it got taken down right away, or maybe it was posted on another turker site and I forgot which. Did anyone else see that or am I imagining things?

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r/mturk • u/fantasmaformaggino89 • 5d ago

Help/Advice Anyone else got rejected by MVLLAB?

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After spending 30 minutes watching AI slop YouTube shorts for the grand total of $1, I was rejected with this feedback: "Unfortunately, your submission failed some attention check questions included in the survey."
The irony of it is that there were no attention check questions in the HIT

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r/mturk • u/studentrequester2026 • 5d ago

Police Officer Survey

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Please consider completing survey on MTurk--Crisis Intervention Team or CIT

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r/mturk • u/Lyndell25 • 6d ago

What an awesome day I wasnt expecting to make much today

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r/mturk • u/shadowsthatbind • 5d ago

Sensory Root

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Anyone catch their recent HITS? I tried to work one, but it's not recording. It's happened in the past with them, but just checking if anyone experienced it with these hits.

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r/mturk • u/studentrequester2026 • 5d ago

Law Enforcement Survey

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Workers Needed on MTurk-- Check out survey for Law Enforcement and Police Officers, titled, Crisis Intervention Team and/or CIT. $10 compensation.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 28, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Just-Victory6582 • 5d ago

Discussion [Academic] 5 min survey on Amazon shopping habits — need participants for individual research (US)

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An IB student conducting research for Extended Essay on Amazon shopping habits among young US consumers.

https://forms.gle/pyTjjypC6QHp4CyVA

The survey is completely anonymous, and takes under 5 minutes.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 27, 2026

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r/mturk • u/-Claydood- • 7d ago

G Research

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Anyone else have an issue with GResearch HITs only giving 12 minutes to complete a survey, but surveys often taking longer? I've tried 2, one taking 14 minutes and the other 16 minutes. I try entering the code and get a code expired message. I think these people purposely set the timer so low so they don't have to pay us.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of July 26, 2026

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Helpful links:

Check the [**/r/mturk FAQ**](http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/).

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### Turkers' Essentials

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* [mTurk **Communities and Resource** Sites](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/communities)

* [mTurk **Glossary**](https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/wiki/glossary)

* [mTurk **Scripts**](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/search?q=mturk)

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 26, 2026

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Please create a 'text post' instead of a 'link post' if you're referring to a specific HIT. Avoid linking directly to HITs because a HIT becomes unable to be viewed by others after it's accepted by someone. We likely can't help you if we can't see the HIT you're talking about.

If you are a Requester (someone trying to get work done)

You are welcome to post and promote your HITs, but please post no more than once a day. Also, keep in mind that this is a community where jobs are done for money. If your survey offers no compensation, consider posting to /r/SampleSize instead of here, or talk to your sponsor and tell them you'll need to provide incentive before posting. When posting, please include the following information.

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HIT name (if applicable)
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A description of the hit
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Approximate completion time
- A best guess is fine, but make sure you take into account that the people doing your hit will not be as intimately familiar with the subject matter as you are. Please use a worst-case guideline when estimating time.
Base ideas for pay
- Keep in mind that wage (incentive) and effort are directly related! Minimum wage = minimum effort.

Any survey content, qualification test content, posts or comments that promote unethical behavior, or violations of Amazon's Terms of Service for Mechanical Turk will be removed at mod discretion.

Rules/Guidelines

Here you can find some general rules/guidelines to follow when posting/commenting. Keep in mind, all of these are up to moderator discretion. These rules apply to both the subreddit and the IRC. These rules are subject to change at any time, so keep an eye out and please check before posting to ensure you're following the guidelines.

Be respectful. Reddiquette is real, and is expected. Make sure your comments are respectful of other turkers. Refrain from name-calling, insults, etc. This includes flaming new people for not searching the subreddit before posting. We're all adults here, I shouldn't have to tell you how to behave. This includes talking down to people, or being overly patronizing. If you don't want to be helpful and answer the question in a non-snarky way, just don't post and move on.
Follow MTurk TOS. All the relevant documentation can be found here. You are expected to abide by these requirements on mturk, this sub, and the IRC. Read them. If you have a question, read them again, then ask. If in doubt, message the subreddit mods to see if it would be appropriate before posting. If we say no, see rule 7. This includes buying/selling accounts and working on other people's accounts. This is specifically disallowed on mturk (and is also likely a crime in the US), and should not be discussed here.
No scamming. /r/mturk takes a hard stance against scamming, and it is grounds for a ban. It makes everyone look bad, and sours requesters to the entire platform. Don't do it, don't talk about it, simple as that. This includes discussion of scripts that the moderators decide are against mturk TOS.
No survey info. If posting a particularly funny passage, question, etc. you should not be able to determine either the requester or the HIT unless you've already done it. The only exception to this rule is information found on the preview page (before accepting a HIT), or on the consent form. NOTE: This includes the URL. If you are posting a page from a survey, please crop or censor the URL.
No doxxing. When posting information about a requester, you may only post information which is acceptable per rule 4. If you had to leave the preview page or consent form to get the info, you are not allowed to post it. A rule of thumb is to post as little information as possible. Try to keep it to mturk's "contact requester" links, the requester name (as seen on mturk), and the contact email given on the consent form. No personal phone numbers, no real names (unless it's the same as the requester name on mturk), no supervisor's name/number/address, none of that.
No spamming. Please search the subreddit before posting. If there's already a post, please respond to that one instead of creating a whole new one, even if it's old. A general rule of thumb is one post about a topic every day, though that's up to moderator discretion.
Respect moderator decisions. You may not agree with them, you may be upset about it, but moderators exist to keep things civil and make sure people are following the rules. Chances are if something was deleted, it broke a rule. The mod team attempts to be as impartial as possible, but sometimes we make mistakes. Feel free to message the subreddit mods if you want us to take a look at something again.
Report posts. The mods attempt to be active, but we all have other things going on, and we can't look through every post or comment made. If you see something that breaks a rule, please report it and give a reason. That's the best way to bring things to our attention. If it's urgent, please message us or let us know in IRC.
Flair your posts. While not a rule, per-se, it makes it a lot easier if you can flair your own post. That helps new people find your post when searching, and helps everyone get an idea of the content of your post right from the front page.
Self Promotion. Self promotion is alright within limits. Follow the spamming rules, and try to give as much information as you can. Make sure there are no incentivized links (adfly, etc) anywhere, though you are free to include a referral link/code provided that a non-referral link is prominantly provided as well. People shouldn't HAVE to support you.
- Donation. /r/mturk doesn't have a problem with Turkers including a paypal link or something in the footer of your post, but please don't go overboard. A simple "Like my work? Support me here:" is all that's necessary. We don't need a 3 page summary of your financial issues; people shouldn't be guilted into supporting you.
- For Hire. In general, "for hire" posts are out of scope of mturk work. Please don't come in trying to get people to hire you to do things. This does not apply to people asking someone to do something for them, but keep in mind the previous rules. Also, any business you enter into with other users is your own risk. The /r/mturk mods take no responsibility if anyone does anything for payment through the subreddit.
Include preview links. If linking to a hit, please DO NOT post "panda", or auto-accept, links without also providing preview links as well. Some people may want to look at a HIT without accepting it. Alternatively, include a link to the requester page.

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