Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Slinky

elsien said:

If anyone gets this one, avoid like the plague. There is absolutely no chance of completing it in the time allowed - I timed out at less than half way through. I have reported it but am not holding my breath. 
 

Image Labeling

By Readability Team

$3.00 • $7.12/hr

25 mins

48 places

Was this one where you had to categorise the image by gender, ethnicity, age etc, about 9 questions per image and about 30 images? I got ripped off a couple of weeks back. Researcher was a Chinese name but title was the same. They retrospectively changed the rate to 7.66 dollars from 4 dollars, but I only got 4 dollars. Was supposed to be 4 dollars for 20 minutes, took twice that. Complained to the researcher and Prolific but got no response.

elsien

Yes, that’s the one. My complaint has fallen into a black hole of nothingness as well. I’m not expecting to get paid at all because it’s showing as timed out and I stopped at that point. I wasn’t going to waste another 20 minutes to get to the end and then still not get paid. 

[Deleted User]

They don't respond to messages I had one where the pictures didn't load properly and got no response

Slinky

Did you report to Prolific? Hopefully if there's enough people reporting the researcher will get blocked.

Slinky

Well blow me, is this the same thing popping up again with yet another name?

• Aesthetic attributes of imagesBy Gestaltrevision Lab

£2.25 • £6.79/hr

19 mins

56 places

We investigate different aesthetic dimensions of a range of images. We present 90 images along with three 7-point scales to rate 3 different aesthetic dimensions.

Devices you can use to take this study:

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Desktop

elsien

Yes, sounds very similar. I will report it yet again. 

sebloak

Is the prolific website down/broken?  all i get is a blank screen & when it does finally show, studies wont submit.

MollyR

It certainly seems broken at the moment.  Looking at the source code, there is really nothing but reams of Javascript, which makes it impossible to get any idea of what is not working that ought to be.

Tommo2448

MollyR said:

It certainly seems broken at the moment.  Looking at the source code, there is really nothing but reams of Javascript, which makes it impossible to get any idea of what is not working that ought to be.

The Reddit on Prolific is reporting the same, https://www.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc/comments/1bpwv0s/prolific_outage/ 

Graceglow

Tommo2448 said:

MollyR said:

It certainly seems broken at the moment.  Looking at the source code, there is really nothing but reams of Javascript, which makes it impossible to get any idea of what is not working that ought to be.

The Reddit on Prolific is reporting the same, https://www.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc/comments/1bpwv0s/prolific_outage/ 

It’s working fine now on my laptop.