Tuesday, March 8, 2016

New dirtbag on Amazon Mechanical Turk, turkprime.com

It has been quite some time since we have posted new dirtbags on this blog, but one steaming pile of crap has risen to the top trying to devalue an already fragile workplace. Turkprime.com 
They do not have the balls to have their own requester account, because if they did, their Turkopticon scores would be so low, no one would ever work for them.

What they do is they allow scumbag academics to post using their platform for free at whatever price they choose. If someone wants to use them to post HITS and wants to pay a penny per hour, turkprime says, " go right ahead, we don't care about this workplace or about the real people trying to earn a living "

Some of the negativity about them on reddit

I love the comment "If I see "powered by turkprime.com" I return the hit"

Some excellent posts here as well
They've also been trying to defend poor pay recently on Twitter.


We can see these scumbags are routinely paying less than a dollar an hour. 

Just disgusting.