HITs Worth Turking For

January, February, March and April Awards 2015

2015-05-15T10:45:00.003-04:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

Announcements

Whew. It's been a while. Lots of things have changed. Others have stayed the same. Without further ado, let's get started!

AdFly

As most of you know by know, Reddit has mandated our sub to quit using Adfly. I'm just putting this up for anyone who hasn't been informed yet. Adfly and self service advertising in general are no longer allowed on Reddit - a shame because I think we were one of the only subs that used it effectively to our benefit - but that ban is site wide.

So do not use Adfly, you will be flagged as a spammer and banned.

Funding

Remarkably, even without our monthly reminder, funding over these past 4 months has been pretty good. It seems we have a very generous group of people who have set themselves a reminder to donate each month. Words cannot express how thankful we are to have such dedicated people like you.

Seriously, thank you for the donations. While I may not always be timely, I do promise that I will distribute these funds to the people who deserve them - our posters.

Monthly Awards

Great news! /u/internet_enthusiast [1] has offered to take up part of the monthly awards responsibilities. Similar to back in the "good ol' days" when /u/ofnoaccount [+8][2] and I had split these responsibilities ,/u/internet_enthusiast [3] 's, ahem, enthusiasm, should keep me more timely, leading us into even greater days ahead.

This past week I've also (finally) been working on scripts and processes to make the awards pull more efficient, which should substantially reduce the amount of time it takes to run the awards in the future, and giving me less excuses to delay our announcements. So there's that :)

Submit a link

Now that adfly is gone, there's very little reason for our posts to not directly link to mturk, so we'll be experimenting with adding this feature back to our sub. I'll try and restore the css setting back within the next week. Feel free to use either the "Submit a link" or "Submit a text post" feature of the site until we determine best practices for these features.

One More Thing

When Reddit dropped the hammer down and mandated that we no longer could use Adfly, I saw the writing on the wall. I thought this sub was slowly going to fade away into obscurity.

But you all have surprised me with your resiliency. In terms of uniques and pageviews, April was actually one of our best months on record! While it pains me that our top posters can no longer incentivize themselves, I'm thankful that so many of you have decided to continue sticking around.

Just food for thought. There were 56,000 unique visitors last month. If each one of you donated just ONE PENNY, we'd have a monthly pool of $560. That's an astounding number. If anyone has any ideas on how to make micro donations a reality or an other way to encourage our top posters, please feel free to comment or message me with your ideas.

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

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.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[4] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

Some of the money for the sub's monthly rewards come from referrals to a survey site called Pollbuzzer that pays $1 for answering a single emailed question. As of late that income has been petering out a bit. If you haven't already, take a look at signing up under the community referral link to see if it interests you. Further details can be found in the FAQ here. For every four polls that a referee answers, the subreddit also gets $1.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - January

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	4077	$9.18
MartyMcfly6	1870	$4.59
metalmonkey1980	1032	$2.3
calpie	464	$2.3
countrygranne	382	$0.92
turks24	373	$0.92
SH31	289	$0.46
MarcosEsquandolas	212	$0.46
TerpWork	207	$0.46
eleero	187	$0.46

Highest Voted HITs - January

Name	Score	Payout
countrygranne	109	$9.18
countrygranne	74	$4.59
metalmonkey1980	58	$2.3
SH31	56	$2.3
metalmonkey1980	56	$0.92

Compiled 2/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - February

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	4796	$3.6
MartyMcfly6	1753	$1.8
Nutellafountain	837	$0.9
turks24	476	$0.9
countrygranne	400	$0.36
FuriousG138	294	$0.36
duplaja	290	$0.18
calpie	219	$0.18
Antamania	212	$0.18
acrelake	209	$0.18

Highest Voted HITs - February

Name	Score	Payout
Slenvr	59	$3.6
slowlyiturn	53	$1.8
metalmonkey1980	52	$0.9

Due to a processing error, 4th and 5th could not be determined.

Compiled 3/5/14 ~ 13:00 EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - March

Name Score Payout

suuserx 3965 $3.6

MartyMcfly6 2430 $1.8

Antamania 1243 $0.9

calpie 780 $0.9

TheTurker 626 $0.36

Nutellafountain 344 $0.36

baldturkey8 340 $0.18

enTurk420 290 $0.18

nwcon 280 $0.18

duplaja 263 $0.18

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	3965	$3.6
MartyMcfly6	2430	$1.8
Antamania	1243	$0.9
calpie	780	$0.9
TheTurker	626	$0.36
Nutellafountain	344	$0.36
baldturkey8	340	$0.18
enTurk420	290	$0.18
nwcon	280	$0.18
duplaja	263	$0.18

Highest Voted HITs - March

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	76	$3.6
Antamania	76	$1.8
TheTurker	61	$0.9
suuserx	56	$0.9

Due to a processing error, 5th could not be determined.

Compiled 4/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - April

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	2874	$3.6
MartyMcfly6	1884	$1.8
Antamania	1577	$0.9
bmcg2201	813	$0.9
shelle2184	596	$0.36
duplaja	525	$0.36
jqkill	509	$0.18
nwcon	456	$0.18
baldturkey8	347	$0.18
enTurk420	317	$0.18

Highest Voted HITs - April

Name	Score	Payout
Antamania	80	$3.6
Antamania	63	$1.8
duplaja	62	$0.9
petttt	56	$0.9
countrygranne	54	$0.36

Compiled 5/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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!

October, November and December Awards 2014

2015-01-15T10:11:00.002-05:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

Announcements

Funding

Unfortunately the move over from Amazon to Paypal as the primary source of funding has substantially reduced our monthly donation pool. Each month this time had donations below $10. Fortunately, we have a reserve fund that we can pull from to keep a steady total payout of $25 for the short term, but we are not sustainable at these levels. If you appreciate what our contributors do here for us and if you have the ability, please donate - even $1 helps, and we'll add a shiny coin beside your username in appreciation.

To all of you who donated to the community pool this time around, thank you. You are the one's who keep us going.

New Moderator Search

We are still in search of someone to maintain our accounts and provide the monthly payouts. We start all new mods out as flair mods and promote from within. Please PM the mods if you're interested and indicate the moderator level that you'd like to obtain. We'll do a quick vetting - participating in the community and being a moderator in another sub are a plus - then start you out as a flair mod on a trial basis.

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

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.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[1] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - October

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	2990	$4.5
MartyMcfly6	2337	$2.25
SH31	916	$1.13
turks24	880	$1.13
LFryo	805	$0.45
rounder61	469	$0.45
turksahittin	469	$0.45
TerpWork	396	$0.23
nwcon	376	$0.23
calpie	347	$0.23

Highest Voted HITs - October

Name	Score	Payout
SH31	65	$4.5
xopappy416	52	$2.25
charlesboyle	48	$1.13
IGotBannedButImBack	48	$1.13
rounder61	47	$0.45

Compiled 11/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - November

Name	Score	Payout
MartyMcfly6	2294	$4.5
suuserx	2038	$2.25
turks24	1738	$1.13
bmcg2201	1267	$1.13
SH31	897	$0.45
TerpWork	384	$0.45
MarcosEsquandolas	382	$0.23
calpie	373	$0.23
turksahittin[	370	$0.23
nwcon	363	$0.23

Highest Voted HITs - November

Name	Score	Payout
kraftydinosaur	76	$4.5
calpie	56	$2.25
SH31	54	$1.13
ifeellikecrappp	54	$1.13
MarcosEsquandolas	53	$0.45

Compiled 12/5/14 ~ 13:00 EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - December

Name	Score	Payout
SH31	1759	$4.5
MartyMcfly6	1561	$2.25
suuserx	1406	$1.13
turks24	700	$1.13
calpie	640	$0.45
bmcg2201	613	$0.45
ummizu	375	$0.23
thetrebel	260	$0.23
metalmonkey1980	251	$0.23
MarcosEsquandolas	225	$0.23

Highest Voted HITs - December

Name	Score	Payout
thetrebel	79	$4.5
Torqz	68	$2.25
420yoloswag4jesus69x	53	$1.13
SH31	51	$1.13
SH31	51	$0.45

Compiled 1/5/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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!

Announcement - June and July Awards 2014

2014-08-06T12:19:00.000-04:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

Announcements

This community keeps on going strong! Nothing new to report this time!

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[2] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

June

June was a good month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. Our contributors are really what allows us to make any payout at all. Because of them, we have a total payout of $64.10!

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - June

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	2921	$12.82
calpie	1548	$6.41
ChrisS227	1412	$3.20
SH31	1369	$3.20
Houly16	964	$1.28
rwebb507	677	$1.28
SiN29074	601	$0.64
MartyMcfly6	444	$0.64
TerpWork	427	$0.64
theskippy	356	$0.64

Highest Voted HITs - June

Name	Score	Payout
roseyrosho	111	$12.82
suuserx	90	$6.41
suuserx	63	$3.20
suuserx	63	$3.20
suuserx	61	$1.28

Compiled 5/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

July

July was also a good month. We have a total payout of $57.60

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - July

Name	Score	Payout
suuserx	3715	$11.52
MartyMcfly6	1478	$5.76
calpie	1096	$2.88
metalmonkey1980	912	$2.88
SH31	878	$1.15
TerpWork	734	$1.15
triceraturk	664	$0.58
ChrisS227	658	$0.58
rwebb507	531	$0.58
Mturk4life	272	$0.58

Highest Voted HITs - July

Name	Score	Payout
ChrisS227	98	$11.52
suuserx	87	$5.76
rwebb507	71	$2.88
wolff540	67	$2.88
suuserx	67	$2.88

Compiled 6/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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!

Announcement - May Awards 2014

2014-08-06T12:17:00.002-04:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

Announcements

Update and Clarification on 'Spoiler' posting Rules

We've noticed a number of comments recently we think constitute 'spoilers' that were not previously expressly prohibited in our FAQ. The two main examples are:

Demographic qualifier screener spoilers, e.g. comments saying, "84 year-old albino druid with a 4th grade education here, I qualified," or, "My smartphone was made by Tesla Motors which I only use to take pictures of my ferret and I got screened out."
Commenting with the text of captcha-style sentences that involve typing out a hand-written phrase.

We realize that in both of these examples folks here are trying to be helpful and save time for other turkers. But, while those commenting may have good intentions there are plenty of people that will use this info to cheat requestors or otherwise spoil their data. That drives good requestors away, potentially lowers pay and generally makes mTurk a shittier environment for everyone.

Please have a look at the revised FAQ section on spoilers[1] and consider how your posts and comments could be used before hitting 'save.'

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[2]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[3] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

May

May was an average month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. Once again, our awesome contributors made up for the lack of revenues elsewhere. Because of them, we have a total payout of $46.76!

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - May

Name	Score	Payout
calpie	1908	$9.35
suuserx	1798	$4.68
Derek573	857	$2.34
MattStall	751	$2.34
paulann1212	743	$0.94
bmassa1	687	$0.94
rwebb507	674	$0.47
trpnblies7	613	$0.47
TerpWork	495	$0.47
cmatt012	476	$0.47

Highest Voted HITs - May

Name	Score	Payout
andrewbutler	104	$9.35
MattStall	100	$4.68
calpie	77	$2.34
TerpWork	73	$2.34
calpie	72	$0.94

Compiled 5/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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!

Announcement - April Awards 2014

2014-06-02T12:41:00.002-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

Farewell, Old Friend!

It saddens us here at /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[1] to announce that one of our fellow mods has decided to step down effective this month. Aarinfel was one of the first mods on our fledgling sub and helped us get successfully up and running from the ground up (back when mods had to contribute $5 a month to get the pool up to $20).

Aarinfel has been very prominent on our sub, acting as a public face in many a post and assisting our users with their questions and concerns. While we will miss him around here, we assure you that he's going for all of the right reasons and we wish him well in all of his new life endeavors.

So farewell, Aarinfel. Best of luck to you and yours, and please drop in and say hello once in a while.

HIT Bot back up and running

Good news everyone! It looks like the HIT_Bot's programmer has got our little guy back up and running! We'd just like to thank him for all the work he did to get hit_bot back online and thank you to all of you for being patient with us and out new flair mods in the meantime. The mods are working on a back up hit_bot solution in case hit bot goes down on it's current server in the future. We should have more details on that as well as some other ideas to enhance your turking experience in the coming months.

Doing Away with an Old Rule

Now that this sub is sufficiently large enough, we are doing away with the no consecutive highest voted HITs rule. So that means posters can get the 1st place top HIT award multiple months in a row. It has only applied once in the past year and did not seem to be on account of vote gaming. We will be monitoring this over the course of the year and if it looks like vote gaming is occurring, we'll reapply the rule. Hopefully this will be an extra incentive for our frequent posters to keep posting at their best!

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[2]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[3] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

April

April was an average month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. Once again, our awesome contributors made up for the lack of revenues elsewhere. We have a total payout of $43.68

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - April

Name	Score	Payout
calpie	2119	$8.48
suuserx	1506	$4.24
bmassa1	1215	$2.12
TerpWork	1010	$2.12
knudlen	897	$0.85
rwebb507	867	$0.85
paulann1212	645	$0.42
LFryo	608	$0.42
CaunsTurk	568	$0.42
sulfurboy	454	$0.42

Highest Voted HITs - April

Name	Score	Payout
heyitscate	85	$8.48
TerpWork	78	$4.24
LFryo	72	$2.12
Derek573	71	$2.12
TerpWork	71	$2.12

Compiled 4/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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!

New tools to enhance your /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor experience

2014-05-14T11:33:00.000-04:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

I've been testing a new(ish) feature on the Internet called If-This-Then-That[1] (IFTTT) for use on our subreddit.

IFTTT allows you to create "recipes" that do an action (like send you a notification) when a website does something that triggers that action (like creates a new post).

This feature can be really useful for our subreddit because, as most of you know, many HITs become dead within an hour of posting. It is really useful for most of us to know of a new HIT as soon as it's posted.

I've tested and created two recipes so far:

One that will send you an email every time a new HIT is posted
One that will send you a text message every time a new HIT is posted.

You can find all of our IFTTT recipes here: https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=HITsWorthTurkingFor&ac=false[2]

Hopefully we will be able to create many more that will help enhance and improve your turking experience. The great thing about IFTTT is that you can also create you own and, if you wish, share them with the rest of the community!

If you'd rather use RSS to get new HITs, you can always add /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[3] to your RSS feed:http://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor.rss[4]

You can also turn on other Reddit notifications to your RSS feed here: https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/[5]

Hopefully we (or one of you!) will be able to integrate both of these into later IFTTT recipes as well.

Good luck and happy turking!

Announcement - March Awards 2014

2014-05-14T11:32:00.002-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

HIT Bot and New Flair Mods

In light of hit_bot being down, we've added a handful of new mods who will be able to flag or unflag dead HITs. These people are doing this as a service for the rest of us, so please join in me in showing your appreciation for all the work that they do to keep our posts fresh and updated.

We are working to get the hit_bot running again. It's looking more like we will have to host this bot privately or through AWS as well as make adjustments to its code in order to get it in working order. If anyone knows how to code in Python and is willing to give us a helping hand, we would certainly appreciate it as it will take the rest of us quite a bit of learning before we can get it working again.

In the meantime, all of us mods will be working to mark the HITs with appropriate flair. If you see one that should be marked dead or otherwise, please continue to comment so that the mods can see it or PM the OP so that they can mark it accordingly.

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[2] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

March

March was an average month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. Our awesome contributors made up for the lack of revenues elsewhere.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - March

Name	Score	Payout
TerpWork	2725	$9.44
LFryo	2093	$4.72
Reddits_Peen	1685	$2.36
calpie	1567	$2.36
Derek573	1135	$0.94
onlyusethisforspam	812	$0.94
rwebb507	797	$0.47
bmassa1	641	$0.47
suuserx	638	$0.47
BlaisOne	527	$0.47

Highest Voted HITs - March

Name	Score	Payout
LFryo	151	$9.44
TerpWork	98	$4.72
LFryo	91	$2.36
Derek573	87	$2.36
TerpWork	86	$0.94

Compiled 3/4/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for March will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in April.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - February Awards 2014

2014-03-19T11:46:00.000-04:00

Welcome again fellow turkers!

Announcements

Nothing new to report!

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[2] is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

February

February was a great month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor! Our contributors really came through this month. Some even donated up to $20.00! Because of this, we have a total payout of $70.66!

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - February

Name	Score	Payout
Reddits_Peen	1962	$15.7
calpie	1796	$7.85
TerpWork	1289	$3.93
onlyusethisforspam	1145	$3.93
LFryo	994	$1.57
metalmonkey1980	776	$1.57
TurningItIntoASnake	769	$0.79
sulfurboy	594	$0.79
MidgardDragon	520	$0.79
jcs_one	489	$0.79

Highest Voted HITs - February

Name	Score	Payout
TurningItIntoASnake	115	$15.7
calpie	85	$7.85
Reddits_Peen	80	$3.93
TurningItIntoASnake	75	$3.93
LFryo	74	$1.57

Compiled 2/6/14 ~ 13:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for February will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in March.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - December 2013 and January 2014 Awards

2014-02-10T15:08:00.002-05:00

Welcome again fellow turkers!

Announcements

Late Announcement

I was hoping that I wouldn't have to add this to the announcement, but since it has been 15 days past the usual announcement time I figured that I needed to say something. A culmination of events required much more of my energy, time and resources than I had expected - and unfortunately the HWTF announcement got put to the wayside. I don't anticipate this happening again in the near future, but it does seem that every few months or so, it takes a little while longer to get to the announcement. For that I am sorry. I hate that I hold some of you up and I know that the awards is an exciting and morale boosting part of our sub.

To help make things right, the other mods and I put in a little extra effort to get the January awards released "early" this month. It delayed the December announcement that was ready on Friday by about 4 days, but I felt it would be better to release one announcement with both months instead of releasing two separate announcements so close together.

I'll try to keep announcements posted by mid month. Sometimes it takes a little while longer to get our income information from our revenue sources which also adds to the delay, but we can usually get these from them by mid month.

Again, I'm sincerely sorry for the delay.

2 Years!

This month marks our second year anniversary. I can't believe /r/HITsWorthturkingFor is already two! They grow upso fast!

Because of that, we'll do just as we did last year. Expect a handful of random announcements this month with some links to a few $0.20 to $2.00 bonus awards!

And thanks for all of you who continue to use and post on this sub. We wouldn't be here without you!

Awards

Shiny Coins

Most 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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Other Ways to Help

Also, if you don't feel like donating, another way you can help support /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor is by using our Amazon Associates link located in our sidebar!

December

December was a good month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We have a total payout of $61.96.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - December

Name	Score	Payout
SH31	1760	$12.39
calpie	1431	$6.20
manzician	855	$3.10
LFryo	773	$3.10
mlurve	690	$1.24
Lime_Time	657	$1.24
beepbeepimajeep0821	607	$0.62
bacon_fly	601	$0.62
mew1212	484	$0.62
greatfranks	425	$0.62

Highest Voted HITs - December

Name	Score	Payout
Liuzhou	109	$12.39
turkmeoff	78	$6.20
Chocomeister	69	$3.10
Lime_Time	69	$3.10
ff7hb	63	$1.24

Compiled 1/6/13 ~ 13:00 EST

January

January was a meager month for us, but as an anniversary bonus, we'll be tossing in a few extra dollars. The total payout for January is 50.08!

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - January

Name	Score	Payout
LFryo	1679	$10.02
TerpWork	1542	$5.01
ppbyct	1352	$2.5
calpie	1351	$2.5
sulfurboy	1122	$1
metalmonkey1980	934	$1
onlyusethisforspam	879	$0.5
jcs_one	834	$0.5
SH31	718	$0.5
aetempli	480	$0.5

Highest Voted HITs - January

Name	Score	Payout
yummyferrero	90	$10.02
Unknownentity8	77	$5.01
TerpWork	73	$2.5
TerpWork	73	$2.5
calpie	72	$1

Compiled 2/6/13 ~ 13:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for January will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in February.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - November Awards 2013

2013-12-31T15:13:00.003-05:00

Welcome again fellow turkers!

###Announcements

## Spam

Before we get down to the issue, I'd like to say that most everyone on the sub uses /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor as intended. We come here to find a few good HITs to work on each day and our posters are rewarded for their efforts. The system works as intended - just a little extra income for both sides of the equation each day.

*And we mods appreciate all of you.* It makes our job pretty seamless - answering questions and removing questionable/inappropriate content when reported and necessary.

Nevertheless, there are those noisy, obnoxious one or two every once in a while that end up causing a ruckus and shaking up the forum. You know the type. These kind of people are not exclusive to our forum; they're online, they're offline. Sadly, they are an inevitable part of life.

We mods can usually keep those few to a minimum here, with a mix of tools as well as removing the inappropriate content and not making a big to do of it. Indeed, the Internet adage, "don't feed the trolls" works very well.

We can't control the actions of each user, nor would we want to, but we try to set standards based upon the needs and feedback of our community. For newer members, we have a [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/wiki/index) with some guidelines, do's and don'ts, as well as some helpful information. We would appreciate it if you took a few minutes browse through it. Additionally, if you have any ideas on how to improve it, please feel free to contact us - *you can even receive special flair for improving the wiki.*

That all said, for the majority of you that continue to use this sub properly, please continue to be *awesome.* Likewise, feel free to flag any content that you feel is inappropriate. To take it a step further, messaging the mods with the reason will likely result in a more prompt response.

For those of you wishing to advertise your mturk related product, please PM the mods with details. We'll review it, and if we feel that it can beneficially enhance our users' turking experience, we'll be glad to link to it in our sidebar. *But please, do not spam your product in your posts or comments.* It's an unnecessary distraction that deviates from this sub's mission. It will likely be reported and removed.

Thanks again for your efforts in keeping this community running smoothly.

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###Awards

Now onto the good news!

November was a good month for all of us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We have a total payout of $52.75 for November.

Most of our income is sourced from users like you. And we really appreciate it!

There are a handful of users that donate consistently *every single month* and I'd like to single them out this time before we ring in the New Year and say thank you for your continued commitment to our community. You all rock!

Of course, any contribution, no matter how small nor how frequent keeps allowing us to provide a little extra to our posters and keeps this place going.

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.

And of course, if you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[](https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/paymentsend?&targetAccount=hitsworthturkingfor%40gmail.com)

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

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##Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - November

**Name**|**Score**|**Payout**
:---|:--:|---:
Filx1323|2050|$10.55
jcs_one|1829|$5.28
Threw_it_to_ground[|1584|$2.64
onlyusethisforspam|1386|$2.64
pmabes|1268|$1.06
dolph1n|974|$1.06
LFryo|863|$0.53
sulfurboy|827|$0.53
sillymuffins|807|$0.53
giggletimber|720|$0.53

##Highest Voted HITs - November

**Name**|**Score**|**Payout**
:---|:--:|---:
Threw_it_to_ground|144|$10.55
Threw_it_to_ground|137|$5.28
TerpWork|115|$2.64
jcs_one|113|$2.64
6-1-2|107|$1.06

*Compiled 12/6/13 14:00 EST*

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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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for November will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in December.

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**Thanks all around and happy turking!**

Announcement - October Awards 2013

2013-11-27T08:51:00.001-05:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

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###Awards

After a few meager months, October was a pretty good month for us! \o/ We have a total payout of $59.30 for our top contributors.

Much of our income 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[](https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/paymentsend?&targetAccount=hitsworthturkingfor%40gmail.com)

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

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##Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - October

**Name**|**Score**|**Payout**
:---|:--:|---:
onlyusethisforspam|2111|$13.18
Threw_it_to_ground|1985|$6.59
dolph1n:|815|$3.29
Filx1323:|610|$3.29
LFryo:|017|$1.32
ayasinskiy|730|$1.32
shartingpants|688|$0.66
JoshuaIAm|657|$0.66
mlurve|534|$0.66
TurningItIntoASnake|500|$0.66

##Highest Voted HITs - October

**Name**|**Score**|**Payout**
:---|:--:|---:
JoshuaIAm:|152|$13.18
heisenturk:|136|$6.59
newlifenewaccount| 89|$3.29
semitope| 83|$3.29
saxkitty| 76|$1.32

*Compiled 10/6/13 12:00 EST*

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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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for October will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in November.

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**Thanks all around and happy turking!**

Announcement - September Awards 2013

2013-10-23T14:57:00.002-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

Changes to the HWTF Wiki

We have made a few changes to our community wiki. You can view our wiki here[1] . The main change that we are making is that moderators can now participate in the community awards pool. This was done because some of our most active members in the community now have the moderator privilege to edit link flair and we did not want to punish them for providing an extra service to our community.

Awards

Unfortunately, it seems that September was once again one our poorest months here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. Once again, save for contributions from our awesome users, our revenue streams performed poorly this time around.

In total, we have a $23.13 available for the September awards.

Fortunately, October is shaping up to be a more robust month. So there should be a higher payout next time.

Much of our income 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[2]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - September

Name	Score	Payout
Threw_it_to_ground	1953	$5.14
ppbyct	1511	$2.57
JoshuaIAm	811	$1.28
onlyusethisforspam	784	$1.28
Casey	593	$0.51
sulfurboy	573	$0.51
Asydbyrn	505	$0.26
TurningItIntoASnake	492	$0.26
ayasinskiy	285	$0.26
6-1-2	276	$0.26

Highest Voted HITs - September

Name	Score	Payout
Casey	77	$5.14
SaranghaeTaeyeon	57	$2.57
RainbowSpectrum	56	$1.28
FireKnightV	54	$1.28
ppbyct	53	$0.51

Compiled 10/3/13 12:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for September will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in October.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - August Awards 2013

2013-09-20T09:23:00.000-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

20,000 Users!

Welcome to all of our new subscribers! We now have passed 20,000 members and have continually hit over 1.5Million views for the past 3 months. This community has continued to grow larger than any of us had ever expected. And I'm sure we are a nice boon to both Amazon and Reddit, so let's keep it going!

Of course, with the growth comes changes in how our community perceives itself and operates. So a survey will be coming out within the coming month or two to help us mods keep the sub in tune with the voice of our community members. If you have any questions that you'd like to be voted on specifically, we'll pull some questions from the highest voted comments, so please post them in the comment section below.

Hit-Bot Down!

Sadly, it looks like Hit Bot continues to get beat down by the ever changing code at Ad.fly and mturk. Of course, we will continue to work on the issue, but this hiccup has caused us to look into alternative methods of dead hit moderation. To help keep our front page fresh, we will be adding a few extra mods that are very active within the community that will be able to change the Dead HIT/Live HIT flair. These mods will be doing this on the graciousness of their own time and for the belief in our community. I'd like to take just a second to thank all of the mods, old and new, for continuing to make this sub a thriving community.

Awards

Unfortunately, it seems that August was one of our poorer months here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. This makes sense, because educational research, our bread and butter, slows down in the summer months. Nonetheless, all revenue streams, save for our user contributions, were extremely poor this time around. Our user contributions are really what gave us any payout at all this time. So I just wanted to give my heartfelt appreciation to all of you who contributed. You all really are what makes this possible, so thank you.

In total, we have a $34.58 available for the August awards.

As stated above, much of our income 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - July

Name	Score	Payout
ppbyct	1515	$6.92
Threw_it_to_ground	1318	$3.46
TurningItIntoASnake	955	$1.73
onlyusethisforspam	952	$1.73
mlurve	545	$0.69
crabdribble	428	$0.69
cutter2005	403	$0.35
FireKnightV	361	$0.35
JoshuaIAm	347	$0.35
mpthrapp	293	$0.35

Highest Voted HITs - July

Name	Score	Payout
BornIn1500	91	$6.92
jrchevy2005	90	$3.46
TurningItIntoASnake	74	$1.73
Unbeatable23	71	$1.73
goangurl	68	$0.69

Compiled 9/10/13 12:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for August will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in September.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - July Awards

2013-08-20T11:19:00.000-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

HWTF Survey Results!

Thanks to everyone who responded to our latest survey in June.

The results were:

Utilize $5 of the user funded pool to provide one moderator with Reddit Gold - Defeated by a narrow margin.
Provide the option for winners to be paid in BitCoin - Approved and now added as a payment option on the HWTF Monthly Awards HITs.

Awards

July was a solid month for us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We have a total payout of $47.02 for July.

Much of our income 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - July

Name	Score	Payout
sulfurboy	3200	$9.40
doctorcameltoe	1008	$4.70
knudlen	905	$2.35
goangurl	669	$2.35
shartingpants	659	$0.94
JoshuaIAm	517	$0.94
crabdribble	498	$0.47
irishfan686	481	$0.47
mturkishdelight	462	$0.47
erratically_sporadic	460	$0.47

Highest Voted HITs - July

Name	Score	Payout
JoshuaIAm	96	$9.40
ofowlsandangelwings	86	$4.70
Kumatei	79	$2.35
dirtyblueballoons	78	$2.35
sulfurboy	74	$0.94

Compiled 8/6/13 12:00 EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for July will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in August.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - June Awards

2013-07-18T10:52:00.002-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

New HWTF Survey!

We have come up a few additional ideas that may be useful to our burgeoning subreddit and would like to put them up to public vote.

Allocating $5 per month to supply 1 moderator with Reddit Gold. Why would we want to do that? Well, there is one feature specifically that we think would be useful to our community - the hail a user function. Say you had a question that you wanted answered by the mods in a post, you could simply call the gilded forum mod to the topic and receive a response when that person logged into Reddit. An easy, convenient and customer friendly feature. The current method is not all that difficult either and is used by a select few in our forum - simply "message the moderators" and bring our attention to the linked post and we'll be glad to respond.
Offering the option to be paid in Bitcoin. Bitcoin is increasingly becoming a relevant niche feature of the Internet. We looked into it and the current transaction fees are significantly less than AMTs. This would enable us to provide more of our proceeds directly to our top tier posters. Not only that, but there is a Reddit bot running around that makes transactions nearly seamless and very transparent. We like to remain as transparent as possible here at /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[1] so we would certainly encourage posters to take advantage of this option. Plus, it would enable any user with a Bitcoin account to tip posters directly right in the post!

Here is a link to the survey on Google[2]

We will be keeping the survey up until Monday morning, when we process payments. If the Bitcoin option is accepted, we will make a special announcement this month for processing payments to users who request Bitcoin. All proceeding awards announcements will ask winners to post a comment requesting this option in the thread.

New Flair!

We've added wiki editor flair! One user already has the new wiki flair for adding valuable browser extensions to our wiki. We here at /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor[3] would like to be the premier forum for valuable Amazon Mechanical Turk Content and would like to develop an essential turking resource wiki. Trouble is, all of you users know so much more about turking than just the handful of us mods. So if you're interested in building this wiki, let us know and we will grant you access. If this gets to be overwhelming, we may restrict access to a limited test group at first. If you are interested, pm the mods for access and let us know when you're done, if we use your information, you'll get the brand new wiki editor flair!

Awards

June was a banner month for us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor! We have a total payout of $67.20 for June.

Much of our income is sourced from users like you. In fact one person in particular donated $20 and another $5! (They're welcome to announce who they are in the comments if they want).

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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[4]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - June

Name Score Payout

sulfurboy 2212 $14.93

knudlen 1253 $7.47

JoshuaIam 930 $3.73

Kumatei 869 $3.73

shartingpants 592 $1.49

frizyfrohobo 533 $1.49

mynameisyoko 482 $0.75

Tjololo 463 $0.75

FindxThexWay 434 $0.75

Bizilbur 408 $0.75

Name	Score	Payout
sulfurboy	2212	$14.93
knudlen	1253	$7.47
JoshuaIam	930	$3.73
Kumatei	869	$3.73
shartingpants	592	$1.49
frizyfrohobo	533	$1.49
mynameisyoko	482	$0.75
Tjololo	463	$0.75
FindxThexWay	434	$0.75
Bizilbur	408	$0.75

Highest Voted HITs - June

Name Score Payout

cheburashechka 93 $14.93

Tjololo 81 $7.47

zpoyusa 72 $3.73

the_wizard23 71 $3.73

RainbowSpectrum 63 $1.49

Compiled 7/12/13 1:30PM EST

Name	Score	Payout
cheburashechka	93	$14.93
Tjololo	81	$7.47
zpoyusa	72	$3.73
the_wizard23	71	$3.73
RainbowSpectrum	63	$1.49

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for June will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in July.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Link to post on Reddit

Adfly Bookmarklet - A Simple Way to Generate Adfly Links

2013-07-02T09:55:00.002-04:00

Some users on /r/HWTF make a small amount of additional income by monetizing their HIT links through Adf.ly. Yet, going to the Adfly page each time that you want to generate an Adfly link can be tedious. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to utilize a little known Adf.ly feature, the Adfly bookmarklet.

A bookmarklet is a small bit of code that runs when you click a bookmark. In this case, the Adfly bookmarklet captures the URL of the page you are currently visiting, then generates an adf.ly link under your referral ID.

Here's the process to get started:

Log into the Adf.ly site.

Click "Tools"

Click the "Bookmarklet" tab.

Drag the "Shorten with adf.ly!" Link into your Bookmarks toolbar.

Now that you have the bookmarklet, creating a link is easy!

Go to the page that you want to link.
Click the "Shorten with adf.ly! bookmark.

The bookmarklet will take you to the adf.ly website and your link will already be built in the link generator.

And now you have your link that you can paste into your Reddit post!

New Flair - Wiki Editor!

2013-06-25T11:52:00.001-04:00

We've added new flair!

For those that improve upon our wiki or FAQ, we will show our appreciation by adding the new wiki editor flairbeside your screen name.

Here are the steps if you are interested in getting the new flair:

PM the mods with the changes or improvements that you'd like to make to our FAQ/wiki.
If we want to use those changes, we'll grant you access to make the change.
After you've made the edits, PM the mods once more so that we can confirm the changes.
Once we've confirmed, we'll add the new flair to your name!

Stand out in our subreddit and make turking a little better for our community! PM the mods today to get started!

Mirroring Reddit Announcements

2013-06-14T12:45:00.000-04:00

In order to keep this blog relevant to the HITsWorthTurkingFor project and in order to provide an easy location for all Announcements in our /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor subreddit, I've decided to mirror all announcements here on the HITsWorthTurkingFor blog. In the coming days, I'll be updating this blog with all announcements made on /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor since January 2013. I'll also attempt to locate all announcements made in 2012, our inception year.

In addition, I am still working on some great new things for HITsWorthTurkingFor, admittedly, I have been overwhelmed with other projects and have not had the time nor energy to focus enough efforts on these new goals. I'm hoping that this will change within the next 3 months and we will get back on track with some much needed enhancements.

So stay tuned for updates here and keep on Turking!

Announcement - April and May Awards

2013-06-07T12:58:00.000-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

April Awards - Sorry for the delay

Sorry everyone for the delay of the April awards announcement. We had a slight hiccup in operations and are looking into a solution to remedy this. I had a long, heartfelt explanation of why this happened and some serious concern for one of our mods who went missing for over a month.

But the good news is that our long lost mod has reappeared and is okay. That is what's most important.

Since April awards were so late, we've decided to process the May awards along with them. Again, sorry for the delay. We are working diligently to consolidate all of our income streams and streamline our processing methods so that, hopefully, we can sustain timely operations in the future.

Awards

As stated above, April was a tough month for us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We have a total payout of $37.46 for April.

In addition, May's payout was slightly higher at $38.35.

Much of our revenue 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - April

Name	Score	Payout
erratically_sporadic	1977	$8.32
shartingpants	1768	$4.16
EsmereldasKite	934	$2.08
Lime_Time	815	$2.08
chemicalburn	571	$0.83
dellgrant21	539	$0.83
goangurl	490	$0.42
randomclock	424	$0.42
Purplearcher	395	$0.42
dhugo3	392	$0.42

Highest Voted HITs - April

Name	Score	Payout
erratically_sporadic	94	$8.32
dhugo3	90	$4.16
JSlasha88	75	$2.08
MountainDewSk8er	79	$2.08
LookAtThatBacon	74	$0.83

Compiled 5/5/13 4:30PM EST

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - May

Name	Score	Payout
shartingpants	1755	$8.52
erratically_sporadic	1503	$4.26
EsmereldasKite	866	$2.13
cjt45	671	$2.13
mturkishdelight	611	$0.85
sulfurboy	416	$0.85
JoshuaIAm	398	$0.43
agentmanningctu	385	$0.43
bacontomatolettuce	379	$0.43
cheburashechka	370	$0.43

Highest Voted HITs - May

Name	Score	Payout
TheJulie:	126	$8.52
MountainDewSk8er:	102	$4.26
GWStroebel	84	$2.13
Motivation54	76	$2.13
mturkishdelight	72	$0.85

Compiled 6/7/13 12:00PM EST

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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for May will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in June.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Announcement - Proof of Payments for March

2013-04-19T13:00:00.000-04:00

Alright! As of today all top posters should now have received their bonuses for March. Thanks again to all of you for making this subreddit a helpful resource for turkers.

We would appreciate it if some of you earners would please verify that we provided you with payment. These posts help keep us honest and prove to all of our new subscribers that the awards system is indeed a legitimate service of our subreddit.

And as always, if any of you reading this feel that we've provided a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way. We very much appreciate all of you for helping us keep this community sustainable.

[1]

Turk On!

Announcement - March Awards

2013-03-15T13:02:00.000-04:00

Announcements

Hello fellow Turkers!

Change in the Awards Payout Structure

Just one announcement, and somewhat meta this time. For this and future months, we are going with a new payout structure that will make calculating the awards statistics much easier for us mods.

For over a year now, we've been using BBoe's subreddit stats[1] program to calculate who are our top posters. While subreddit stats has made it much easier to calculate who are top submitters are each month, it does not provide more than the top 5 posts each month.

This had forced us to calculate these by hand, a long process that has taken us up to 4 hours at times. It's also prone to error, as the aggregate vote counts fluctuate depending on which server responds to the request for historical data. You can test this yourself by hitting the "top" tab above and then selecting "this month" - note the vote counts for the top 5 posts, now hit the "top" tab again and see that these numbers have changed! Sometimes this bug has changed the order of the votes payout. The top 5 posts usually do not change order, but the further down the list you go, the closer the vote counts get to each other and order changes occur frequently.

So from now on, we are going to provide awards for the top 10 overall contributors and top 5 highest voted HITs each month. We are hoping this change will make our awards payments more accurate while also saving the mods a little bit of time.

Awards

March was a solid month for us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We pooled a total of $63.60 this month and the majority of that was by direct contributions from turkers 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[2]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma

Name	Score	Payout
goangurl:	1763	$12.72
Lime_Time:	1641	$6.36
dellgrant21:	1573	$3.18
erratically_sporadic:	1304	$3.18
RainbowSpectrum:	875	$1.27
shartingpants:	813	$1.27
chemicalburn:	764	$0.64
kkarloff:	669	$0.64
dhugo3:	635	$0.64
agentmanningctu:	605	$0.64

Highest Voted HITs

Name	Score	Payout
RainbowSpectrum	: 93	$12.72
agentmanningctu	: 81	$6.36
chemicalburn	: 80	$3.18
goangurl	: 73	$3.18
MountainDewSk8er	: 67	$1.27

Compiled 4/5/13 4:30PM EST

Revised 4/12/13 3:53PM EST to remove joke thread from highest voted HITs and to correct the top submitters since they have been historically exempt from the month to month rule. Sorry for the listings confusion and error.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

February Awards, Disappearing Downvotes and the Continued Rise of Our Robot Overlords

2013-02-05T09:11:00.000-05:00

Announcements:

Rise of the Machines

The hit_bot has been running smoothly and grows thirsty for power! To that end, it has finagled itself a mod position and will use its newfound dominion to automatically apply "Dead" link-flair to any HIT that is no longer available. If it makes a mistake, please reply to its comments to let it know. Though of course, most failures can only be attributable to human error[1] .

Long Delayed Downvote Poll Results

In response to a number of posters feeling frustrated by seemingly unmerited downvotes, we ran a quick poll to see if the community wanted to hide the downvote button on posts. We meant to act on it much more quickly but it kinda got shuffled to the wayside.. Please accept our apologies for that.

237 users responded and a fairly substantial majority voted to hide the button:

167 voted in favor of hiding the button

70 voted in favor of keeping it

Screenshots. [2]

So, as of today the downvote button will no longer be visible on posts. As downvoting has until now been one of the main ways for community members to express their opinions on HITs posted here, it is more important than ever to leave comments and feedback. We'll be evaluating this change over the coming weeks to see how it affects the quality of the sub.

Awards

Unfortunately, February has seen a decline in income for the community pool. This month we only have $31.34 for the rewards. A large portion of that was from direct contributions from users appreciative of our sub's lovely posters.

If your turking income is higher than it would be without the sub, please consider throwing a little back into the community to help encourage the posting of great HITs. A larger pool leads to a larger incentive to share HITs!

[3]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

Also, take a look at Pollbuzzer[4] if you haven't already and consider signing up under the community referral link[5] .

The total pool of $31.34 has been divided between the ten highest voted HITs and the subreddit's top five contributors (courtesy of BBoe's Subreddit Stats).

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma

Name Score Payout

goangurl 2139 $6.27

Artivist 1551 $3.13

bmcg2201 1089 $1.57

Mark_B123 956 $1.57

pizzaboy12 852 $0.63

Name	Score	Payout
goangurl	2139	$6.27
Artivist	1551	$3.13
bmcg2201	1089	$1.57
Mark_B123	956	$1.57
pizzaboy12	852	$0.63

Highest Voted HITs

Name Score Payout

Kaentha: 113 $6.27

RainbowSpectrum 80 $3.13

polkadotsunday 80 $1.57

LookAtThatBacon 76 $1.57

Mark_B123 74 $0.63

VR6T 71 $0.63

Zenaton 68 $0.31

dv4Paul1 66 $0.31

alwaysmooth 64 $0.31

bmcg2201 62 $0.31

Compiled 3/4/13 9:00 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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for February will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in March.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Name	Score	Payout
Kaentha:	113	$6.27
RainbowSpectrum	80	$3.13
polkadotsunday	80	$1.57
LookAtThatBacon	76	$1.57
Mark_B123	74	$0.63
VR6T	71	$0.63
Zenaton	68	$0.31
dv4Paul1	66	$0.31
alwaysmooth	64	$0.31
bmcg2201	62	$0.31

Announcement - January Awards

2013-01-05T09:19:00.000-05:00

Hello fellow Turkers!

First off a prize! $0.05 for the first 100 people who complete the HITsWorthTurkingFor Anniversary Awards 4. Since number 3 was a bit difficult, this one is going to be super easy, simply enter "HITsWorthTurkingFor" as the password.

Thanks again for being a part of our wonderful community.

Once you're done getting your $0.05, come on back and read this announcement!

Open the pod bay doors, HAL

A very helpful and talented Redditor has written a bot for the benefit of HWTF. It follows the links in each post, checks to see if the HIT is still up, and leaves a comment. It frequently re-checks HIT status and updates its comment accordingly. If all goes well, we hope to have it automatically mark dead HITs in the near future! In addition to these useful features, the bot links the TO page of the each HIT's Requester and the page for you to leave your own review. At the bottom of of the hit_bot’s comments you’ll notice an adfly link. Clicking that link will help the bot’s creator earn a little extra money but doing so is of course entirely voluntary. If the bot gets anything wrong, please comment ! If you have any suggestions or concerns, please let us know!

Awards

January was another slow month for us here at HITsWorthTurkingFor. We pooled a total of $43.68 this month and a large portion of that was by direct contributions from turkers 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.

If you feel that we've added a boost to your turking income, you can help support this community and the community pool by sending a little of that back our way.

[1]

If you have donated and would like shiny coin next to your username, please include it in the additional notes field of the send money page.

The total pool of $43.68 has been divided between the ten highest voted HITs and the subreddit's top five contributors (courtesy of BBoe's Subreddit Stats).

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma

Name	Score	Payout
lotkrotan	1438	$8.73
dhugo3	1256	$4.36
pizzaboy12	1186	$2.18
chongchingchang	1179	$2.18
Mark_B123	1012	$0.87

Highest Voted HITs

Name	Score	Payout
Mark_B123	188	$8.73
LookAtThatBacon	80	$4.36
thatSunset	78	$2.18
MountainDewSk8er	75	$2.18
mlurve	70	$0.87
dhugo3	69	$0.87
csk8111	69	$0.87
pizzaboy12	65	$0.44
lampshade3	63	$0.44
lotkrotan	59	$0.44

Compiled 2/8/13 10:30PM 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. Please also be aware that the contributors of the top 3 highest rated posts for December will not be eligible for the top 3 award spots in January.

Thanks all around and happy turking!

Proof of Donation

2012-08-17T18:01:00.001-04:00

Sorry all for taking so long to process and post my proof of donation. For some reason, the card that I had wanted to use to make the donation would not work before I left for Panama and continued not to process while I was in Panama. In other words, those little pay as you go credit cards that you can get from Walmart: NOT a fan!

Anywho, here's the proof:

Also, I am back in the US, so expect more good things to come over at r/HITsWorthTurkingFor!

Justin

The conclusion of my experiment in blogging and making money online

2012-04-13T00:13:00.003-04:00

Well here it is. The end of the road.

Hi again old friend. It's been a while, but I never forgot about you. This is where it all started and this is where it should all end, well, for me at least. At least for now.

In my little lull between careers, I learned a lot about blogging, running your own website, and making money online. I also learned quite a bit about community building. After three months of working on and managing a system that caters to a niche community, I've come to realize a few things. I'd like to share them. Hopefully it will be enriching to anyone else looking into making a little extra income online.

1. Make sure you work on something you really enjoy

Find a hobby that you're already doing, or find a new hobby that you really want to commit to. If you're passionate about it people will follow you.
If you love it, it makes it seems less like work. If you don't love it, you just simply won't dedicate the amount of time it takes to make something awesome. Worse, you'll probably give up once it's no longer interesting.
Make sure you're not just in it for the money. If you are, and you don't see the income rolling in within a few months, you're likely to give up. Time equals money, right? So with more time, you will obtain more money, especially if you're passionate about it.

2. Find other communities interested in that same thing

This will gain you readership, especially if you offer them something novel - something original. It doesn't have to be completely unique, just a different twist on what's out there.
Don't just restrict yourself to sharing on your site. Share and converse in other forums as well. Be an expert and give expert advice This will give you credibility.

3. Consider other opportunities for monetizing

Honestly, ads alone do not make much income, most likely, you'll be receiving less than a penny per reader. So innovate instead.

For example, you could provide step by step instructions on how to make something, then, at the bottom, compile a list of materials that people will need to make the project.

Find each material online (hopefully the cheapest or best you could find)
Become a referrer or affiliate for that site.
Then post referral links to the materials in your compiled list.
Now you have shown them how to make something, and given them the convenience of providing the items for them. They're much more inclined to buy and make you some money. This applies to anything. If you're a musician, offer a song or two for free and provide a link to your album or mp3's.
If that's too much work, consider implementing something like VigLink into your site, which will set up those referral links for you automatically and pay you a percentage.

Consider link monetization, like adfly or adfocus. We've implemented them successfully on reddit/r/hitsworthturkingfor. Just don't go all willy-nilly and spam them - which would deter your viewers.
Consider selling your own hobby products on your own website/blog. People like to own items with a story behind them.
Make instructional videos. Post on YouTube and link to your website. If you go this route, get a tripod so you're videos aren't incredibly shaky, and learn how to do some minor editing with something like Windows Movie Maker.

4. Understand that you'll be making supplemental income, if any at all

More than likely, you won't become a millionaire, or even a thousandaire for your online work. It's going to just be a small amount of supplemental income. But, hey, if it pays for your hobby or if you're doing what you love, then isn't that worth it in itself?

5. Make your blog/site presentable

Put yourself in the readers' shoes. If you were a random person browsing online, would you read your blog? Does it provide useful, interesting, original content? Is the layout easy to read and navigate? If not, make it so it is. If you aren't technically inclined enough to do so, ask a friend or relative to help you out. Or, hire a freelance worker to do it for you. These options will likely be a lot cheaper than hiring a development company to run things.

In Conclusion

Now for the bittersweet ending. This site made roughly $25 since I started it in January up until March 31. Most of that income came from my very active January here, when we were just starting out. Honestly, I started dedicating myself to r/HITsWorthTurkingFor in mid-February and sadly neglected this blog after then. And I really do feel that it was the right move. I feel that r/HWTF has become a real success and one with the staying power to last long past my departure in May. I know blogging works and has it's place as a source of supplemental income for me, and am looking forward to picking up blogging again when I get back - but in something I'm much more passionate about - energy and renewables.

So as promised, I have $25 and I;m letting you decide where to spend it. The three options are in the survey below. I'll send the money to the highest voted charity on April 20th and post the receipt here when it's done.

(Edit: The survey didn't embed after posting, so I'm going to tally the results on April 25th.)

<p>Loading...</p> Well it's been fun. If you're a turker, come on and visit us over at r/HITsWorthTurkingFor. Otherwise good bye for now.

Best,

Justin

HITs Worth Turking For

January, February, March and April Awards 2015

Announcements

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Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - January

Highest Voted HITs - January

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - February

Highest Voted HITs - February

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - March

NameScorePayout suuserx3965$3.6 MartyMcfly62430$1.8 Antamania1243$0.9 calpie780$0.9 TheTurker626$0.36 Nutellafountain344$0.36 baldturkey8340$0.18 enTurk420290$0.18 nwcon280$0.18 duplaja263$0.18

Highest Voted HITs - March

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - April

Highest Voted HITs - April

October, November and December Awards 2014

Announcements

Funding

New Moderator Search

Awards

Shiny Coins

Bitcoin:

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Other Ways to Help

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - October

Highest Voted HITs - October

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - November

Highest Voted HITs - November

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - December

Highest Voted HITs - December

Announcement - June and July Awards 2014

Announcements

This community keeps on going strong! Nothing new to report this time!

Awards

Shiny Coins

Other Ways to Help

June

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - June

Highest Voted HITs - June

July

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - July

Highest Voted HITs - July

Announcement - May Awards 2014

Announcements

Update and Clarification on 'Spoiler' posting Rules

Awards

Shiny Coins

Other Ways to Help

May

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - May

Highest Voted HITs - May

Announcement - April Awards 2014

Announcements

Farewell, Old Friend!

HIT Bot back up and running

Doing Away with an Old Rule

Awards

Shiny Coins

Other Ways to Help

April

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - April

Highest Voted HITs - April

New tools to enhance your /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor experience

Announcement - March Awards 2014

Announcements

HIT Bot and New Flair Mods

Awards

Shiny Coins

Other Ways to Help

March

Top Contributors by Total Submission Karma - March

Highest Voted HITs - March

Announcement - February Awards 2014

Name Score Payout

suuserx 3965 $3.6

MartyMcfly6 2430 $1.8

Antamania 1243 $0.9

calpie 780 $0.9

TheTurker 626 $0.36

Nutellafountain 344 $0.36

baldturkey8 340 $0.18

enTurk420 290 $0.18

nwcon 280 $0.18

duplaja 263 $0.18

Name Score Payout

sulfurboy 2212 $14.93

knudlen 1253 $7.47

JoshuaIam 930 $3.73

Kumatei 869 $3.73

shartingpants 592 $1.49

frizyfrohobo 533 $1.49

mynameisyoko 482 $0.75

Tjololo 463 $0.75

FindxThexWay 434 $0.75

Bizilbur 408 $0.75

Name Score Payout

cheburashechka 93 $14.93

Tjololo 81 $7.47

zpoyusa 72 $3.73

the_wizard23 71 $3.73

RainbowSpectrum 63 $1.49

Compiled 7/12/13 1:30PM EST