This study was supposed to be a qualification where we had to complete tasks, but then it was just a questionnaire and the point was to qualify to a 5 day study, but it's been almost a week and noone seem to have had a response from them about if they qualified or not? Is Google tweaking?
It's kinda annoying, the queue has been hella dry since this morning, catched a task twice and got hit with the "Error: The study you are trying to access is no longer in progress. Please reach out to your point of contact if you think this should not be the case." notification.
Anyone experiencing this as well?
Only got 30$ worth before they disappeared. How bout yall? Happy since I haven’t gotten any for 3 days
Hey everyone, I haven’t received a single study since the 13th of this month, and I have no idea why. Is anyone else facing the same issue, or does anyone know how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated!
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This is one of the lowest referral bonuses for any of these sites. If they get flagged for bot use or AI input, your account can (will?) be flagged and investigated as well, losing access to the platform temporarily and perhaps permanently. As well, every person added IS a draw-down on your potential earnings, because gig work is unfortunately fundamentally competitive income even if we should generally assist each other in gig worker solidarity overall. There's no world where £5 makes up for that especially at scale.
If you need £5 that bad, check out other sites from r/beermoney instead and save your account's integrity against faulty researcher detection algos flagging it unfairly (presumably because your friends or even strangers are all 100% certainly on the up-and-up right?), and help keep the pool as reasonable as we can despite Prolific's aggressive onboarding because remember, they care about profit, not you and your ability to support yourself with this platform (despite one of the options in "about me" being willing to work 20+ hours which is legit a part time job in anything that's not "gig work")
guys, when I'm done with the study "Your Session has been completed. Please go back to your provider.", when I go back to prolific the timer is still running, and the study isn't submitted even after minutes. What should I do?
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Does anyone have any experience with this researcher? Is he reliable?
I was smack in the middle of their check to see if I had hearing loss. It just randomly decided I was not able to take it. wtf
Looks like the system continually calibrates and tests you every 45 mins, so I assume those who do it, just sit down and pound them out until they have to retest right?
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.
You do realize you’re ruining this for everyone, including yourself, right? I know a lot of you are new here, and that’s cool, we all were new at some point. But what’s not cool is running to this sub when a batch drops and acting like the damn town crier. What’s your objective in doing that? Certainly not getting any karma. You people really are dense.
Why do people get so frustrated when others announce the opportunities on this forum?
Well, it's simple. People need the money. I'm a prime example. Things fell apart for me, and I thankfully had this platform to fall back on. The income obtained here helped me, massively, in ways I can't properly convey. I've worked my ass off over the years, but life is messy, and sometimes a messy life causes people to struggle, even when they do everything right. Because of this, we turn to resources that are sometimes our last resort. It's not that we rely fully on this platform for income, it's that for some periods of our lives, we need anything we can get, just to survive in a broken world. It's hard at times when a temporary reliable income source disappears. We try to justify it, we theorize about what could be happening that causes a lapse in income. We get frustrated seeing other make money that may be extra spending money to them, but know that income could be the difference between us having food for a night or not. It's not that we don't want others to share in the wealth, it's that we know how bad our lives will get without the income. This, unfortunately, can create bitterness. when we see an income stream that's a lifeline disappear on us, we want to point fingers. don't get me wrong, we know this isn't a consistent, reliable gig. But when it's the only thing we have, we're gonna defend it, fiercely, because we have no other choice. I got screwed with my last job, and I have another job lined up, but bills don't care about circumstances, they care about money. Most of the time, they're not willing to wait, they don't care why we need time to come up with the money, they just care about the money they don't receive. whether it's the fault of the influx of new participants of not, seeing a well of money suddenly get shared with others that didn't put in the effort to "deserve' a spot at the pool can be frustrating. For those of us that's been on the platform for years, it can be frustrating to share the pot with brand new people that didn't put in the work to make prolific a platform that can afford to be what it is now. New users didn't work through the droughts like we did. It's a gig platform, without actual employees. But when you work for years for someone, then see them hire countless employees that suddenly take the income away from people that spent years building up a platform through their time, it can be frustrating. Not because the new employees did anything wrong, but because the platform we helped to build essentially spit in our faces and said that they don't care about the work we put in, that made a ceo millions of dollars, they're all for dropping our income for new users, just for the sake of them being new. The frustration comes from people feeling like their time and effort gets ignored, isn't worth anything. That's not an unjustified feeling, anyone sending time and effort over years would feel the same way. The toxicity on this thread is real, but it's not entirely unjustified, it's just human nature. I think that deep down, people are genuinely happy that others can make money, and have a chance to build a bridge when needed, when no other options are available. we just wish it didn't come at the cost to our own income, because some of us may need it just as badly as others, and we put in the work to earn this income, through years of plowing through low income studies, through years of being here so the platform could be successful.
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But I feel like this is an accurate assessment of the current situation. I don't normally make posts, ever. But maybe this will help the new users understand why we're so furiously defensive of what we have, what we've spent years working for.
Theres actually barely any studies appearing? in 4 hours I've seen maybe 3 pop up in total and they are already full? Even yesterday there were plenty appearing even though I couldnt get into them....
Hi. I spent over 20 mins on this study and got confirmation of fully completing it only to get a screened out message hours later with only £0.10 given. Is this a usual thing on prolific? I’m fairly new and it’s so demoralising putting in so much time and effort to properly answer these thoughtfully and then have this happen 😞
Question from a non-technical person. I was trying to do a survey today that required a screen resolution of 1500x850 pixels. My laptop is a standard 1920x1080. Is this something one can change typically or would I need a new screen?
