r/prolific

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i was in the middle of one and the site stopped working randomly. they were having issues earlier.

1 crap study on my dash and most of the day just 1 or 2 at the very most. I was working today but would check my phone a lot. Also. not a single AI study I saw. Yesterday only had a couple AI studies show up. On the other forum most say only getting a couple AI studies a day, not like before this latest fuck up.

Do you think they're throttling the AI studies on purpose now where you only get a few? I filled out a few more of the new about me and I'm wondering if I FUBARed my account demographics.

I accidentally was on a VPN when I attempted to verify my ID. It resulted in a hold of my account. I went to appeal it and they said the following:

“Your account is restricted as your IP address has been flagged as high-risk by our third-party security and monitoring systems, which we use to maintain data quality and protect platform integrity.

Unfortunately, we can't manually override these flags as the systems operate independently to ensure unbiased security checks.

Flagged IP addresses are reviewed periodically, and access can be restored once an IP is no longer flagged. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee when this will happen, if at all, so for the time being, you will not be able to use Prolific.”

Has anyone experienced this before? I always have a VPN on my phone for security reasons and didn’t realize until after that it would flag my account. Anyone had their closed account reopened after some time of waiting at all or am I out of luck? Was really excited to sign up for Prolific but doesn’t seem like that’s an option at all anymore.

How do you guys think you got on?

Has anyone had any success in disputing dynamic reward payment amounts? I did a study that was up to an hour for $20, I set my timer and did the whole hour, the message pop up when I went to submit said “you’re been working on this task for an hour and 5 minutes“, but when I got back to prolific, it said I was rewarded partially based on the time I spent on tasks in the study and only given $12. I spent the full hour working on it though?

At work, woke up 830 only 1 ai this morning none early am, now all junk. Is this new fix going to give us less ai?


Hello! I've been a Prolific user since 2022 and wanted to share a recent problem that I encountered with everyone that uses Prolific. There's this popular study called "One-on-One English Video Conversation (Headphones Required)" and I've been participating in this ongoing study for the last month to several weeks now, and in my personal experience, I was able to do several video conversations with people without headphones because you can also use a USB Mic, which I have and was actively using for this. So, I was earning $15 for 30 minutes to 60 minutes/hour of my time and the money added up quick as I would get paid every day or every other day in the morning or overnight.

But during the last few weeks that I was doing this study, they not only changed the layout of what the video call looked like, (adding random usernames, a control panel, etc.) it seemed like they kept tightening the requirements on who could join and all of that ultimately came down to the audio part. But for even more context, the first wave pf this study was way simpler and originally paid $22.50/hour and headphones were not required back then and their was a different researcher conducting the study than who we have now which has stayed consistent on the last 2 or 3 waves pf this study. Back then during the first wave this study started showing up in March.

I'll see if I can share a screenshot I took for this study as I have been able to participate in this study about 20 or 21 times before the requirements got even more strict from what I mentioned above. As of today, I can still access the study but my audio keeps getting rejected and all I get now is 25 cents as compensation for the time I spent trying to get my audio reviewed and trust me, my audio isn't bad by a long shot. I was so bothered by this that I contacted someone I met from the study and exchanged some information with so see if they were experiencing the same problems and low and behold, they were!!! So, at this point this is definitely a Prolific problem and a big problem by the current researcher of this study because idk who is reviewing the audios but they need to o a better job and ease up on the strict requirements keeping people from earning good money on the platform.

Let me know if you guys have experienced this as well and lets talk more about this and share with anyone who uses Prolific at all to bring more awareness to this if you haven't already. Thank you so much!!

I've been asked to return the Employee Behaviour Question study by Delta Alpha Foxtrot. The reason given being 'insufficient engagement with main task.' The study had 8mins but took me much longer. I've politely messaged asking for further information but heard nothing back. What will happen if I don't return it. I have completed 3787 studies with over 99% success rate, so can hendle a rejection. Just curious as study took more than double the stated time, then told insufficient engagement LoL.

I just finished doing my demographics all over again. I restarted all of them. it took me about an hour and a half. The questions that took me off hold directly after answering them were the new questions about AI usage and AI tool usage at work being that there's no way for you to say no there is a question that says does your team use any AI tracking or management tools and if you say yes it gives you questions you cannot say no to.

this is completely anecdotal. but each time I answer my questions I will check my status on my account to see if I get put off hold or not. it was directly after I answered these questions and said no to the main question ( technically it's a yes but I am not a coder myself ) I was taking off hold right away afterwards.

Hopefully this helps other people if you're in the same situation I am in. oh my very last appeal before I fix my demographics I was on hold I have my appeal rejected for the 7th time.

I am still completely afraid of cashing out right now but at least I get studies now and I get back to work on prolific.

BIG THANKS to u/hearthreddit for the advice! https://www.reddit.com/r/prolific/s/sU6wGyBz4Z

I know we all see the negative posts about accounts on hold, studies full and/or in high demand & studies disappearing in seconds. I get there's a lot of frustration, I count myself within that number.

However, for me, things seem a little more stable today. I've landed a few AI jobs, taken a couple of qualifiers for future projects but mostly let everyone else winge and moan while I went to the pub instead.

I think it'll take another couple of days for things to iron out. I think prolific are using this week's fuck up to address some issues we've been talking about for some time. But I do see an improvement, fingers crossed it continues over the next few days so we can all get back to where we were.

And yet, before anyone mentions it, Prolific are UK based. 4th July shouldn't factor into this at all.

That is all, I now return you to your regular programme.

I'm in an endless loop of getting put on hold. At this point I should just delete my account it been a full week since this started. I have a 99.8 rating and have been on the platform for 2 years. Prolific support has been horrible and it feels targeted (I know it's not) but after being told it was my PayPal now they are saying one of my submissions looked like AI had typed my responses. I told them to go back to whatever submission they believe had AI and watch me type it all out in their viewer.

I don't know what to do because I rely on Prolific as well as my main job. Things were going well I just got engaged and took in my fiancee and my new 7 year old daughter to live with me. My main physical job slows down during the summer and I was using Prolific more heavily starting last week because of how slow my physical job would become and all was well until I cashed out and was put on hold. This happened 3 times after cashing out. I was put on hold and reinstated 3 times for it. This resulted in me losing extra money that I would have made during this time. For the 4th hold up to the sixth hold it keeps saying that I use AI to write for a study. The only study that had to have writing right after my last reinstatement was a study that had one word replies or maybe just a few words in a small text box no longer than a few centimeters.

From this point forward I have been put in the repeals. I don't know what's going on. Prolific support doesn't say anything. I don't think anyone has been on hold as many times as I have in such a short amount of time. I don't know what to do now. Should I just delete my account?

Are they worth doing? Anyone have any experience with them? I ain't getting any VO ones so I was thinking fuck it... but I heard they reject like crazy?

Around 1130 was the last one that popped up and it filled fast. Only a few this morning that filled up fast and since then none. Just garbage studies mostly. Around 2am I had a couple that worked and I did. Am I being throttled you think or did they just totally stop posting them this afternoon?

what a joke.

Is this open for anyone else here? So buzzing, just managed to get 15 of my buddies on board!