u/scourn77

Why are some of you so angry in here? Why are you raising your blood pressure over random internet strangers?

I'm a smartass, even when people attack me, I tell them to STFU in some clever way and don't think about them again. Why are so many people in here following others around, generally angry as hell? Every thread I read is a damn fight with one another in it.

If you don't like the direction the sub is going, you can leave. Why stay where something makes you that angry that you feel the need to attack and block everyone? People are legit blowing a gasket in here daily. It's not like the official sub here; you get no moderation and no announcements. So you are literally living in the Wild West in here. If it bothers you that you feel triggered, wouldn't it be wise, health-wise, to just move on? Like, you people are cussing out everyone over anything. Relax and have fun. If you can't handle it, go back to the structured sub where you have moderation.

My fortune cookie of the day.

You seriously think it's posts causing the sudden drop in numbers quickly? People who are on this sub and others have their tabs up; they can see the number of studies available without even opening the tab. Even if someone reposts its going to take a while to spread around. Those are gone in seconds; your fucking math doesn't add up.

Prolific added ALL those new people, not this sub. Use some critical thinking skills for once, instead of conspiracy theories or blaming shit that has nothing to do with the real problem. All the crying and anger should be directed at the company that pushed you out the door, not joe blow on a fucking forum.

https://preview.redd.it/bwoh0444fp1h1.png?width=437&format=png&auto=webp&s=0222e14dc9a57c410d8361b071ea0a41319783f5

Enjoy those clicker wars!

As most here already know, Prolific is essentially doubling in size. Studies are showing up less, and are full for anything paying well. People are posting about this daily on the sub, frustrated at how it's been handled. Without proof, this is probably due to the AI studies and warning removing people faster than prolific could add people. It's also a really shitty way of handling things when they could program a queue or show studies to a certain number of people instead of everyone at once.

Prolific cares pretty heavily about their ratings on TrustPilot. So much so, they have in the past answered tons of 1-star reviews and even put out campaign pop-ups to go rate them on TrustPilot to try to raise their score when their ratings would get lower. They do not care about bitching on forums or on their own sub. They essentially just ignore it.

If you want to make a difference, go and rate them how you feel, and mention in the review the fact that you get studies that are full all the time. Force their hand to make changes to their system. If you do nothing but complain in here, nothing will ever change.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.prolific.com

9k weekly visitors with 2k contributions compared to the main site, 39k weekly with 6k contributions.

Speaks a lot. We have 30k fewer weekly visitors, but only a third fewer weekly contributions from the community. We talk more here and engage more than on the main site, compared to the volume of people visiting. Censorship is pretty much the main reason, I'm sure, but it's still nice to see a sub that barely pulled 500 visits when I first joined is now so active.