Topic: [Project Development] CoinWorker.com - earn bitcoin in your browser in minutes - page 9. (Read 38483 times)

I see your account as having a balance of 126pts, mostly from a text-in-images task, with a couple of other tasks that had an Australian focus. When the balance hits the minimum threshold of 200pts, it will be paid.

If you're excluded from current tasks, other tasks in the future might give you another chance. But, if the task back-end has locked out your entire account because the work seemed unreliable, this balance won't ever be payable.

I've explained why the threshold became necessary in another post (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.813736).

That's also why, at the time registration was required, I had to add to the terms: "Any balances offered or displayed are only estimates and provisional until paid. CoinWorker may delay, adjust, or nullify pending balances for any reason." I know that may sound arbitrary, but it's the one of the necessary defenses against lots of little petty scam work sessions draining all the value from the good work, which would eventually sink the service entirely.

In the end, it's the public history of reliable payments, in accordance with the currently-published policies, plus the fact that at any one time you've got very little at risk, which will indicate to each person whether they think this is a good deal or not. You can see from posts here and elsewhere, and the past history of the current address activity logs on the CoinWorker site, evidence of how payments work in practice.

BTW, when you say "my points and activity were cleared", I don't think that's the case. There's not been any erasing of any reported work for the ~2 month lifetime of the service, and I do still show the 126pts pending on the account you mentioned. If you think something that once appeared on the CoinWorker site disappeared, you can send me details (here or in PM) and I'll investigate further.

{Warge

I currently see more tasks, but what is offered can vary a lot by region, and over time. Especially if you are outside of North America, the best advice I can offer is check back occasionally.

{Warge

Yeah hi, I jumped on, created an account, got about 100 points, my brother used my account, dropped my accuracy to 89%, and it wouldn't let me do any more work. I'm still waiting on a reply, and when I logged in all my points and activity were cleared. =/
Now I don't really care, cos it's like 60 cents or something relatively meaningless.
But I would like to know what's happened, as I was planning on passing your site around to friends as a little source of btc income.
Unfortunately, there wouldn't be much point if no one got btc =(

So anyway, if you could look into what has happened to mah account that would be sweet.
It should be fred26 =D
cheers

I thought I'd give this a try, but after registering there's only one task listed with either sometimes 0, 1 or 2 available. But even when it says 1 or 2 available when i click it it shows 'Finished! no more work available for this task' etc. What gives?

 I use all the time when I have nothing else to do. 

thanks for your hard work Warge, I have received the bitcoins.

Thanks for the details!

I was wondering how I was going to contact the person doing that work, and wondering also how they could have kept submitting new work without full account info.

As I see you've now registered, new work is being recorded properly, And because of both that new work and the older work, I can associate the 'orphaned' units to your new account, so they should now be paid per normal.

Sorry for the delay! I've still been ironing out bugs with the transition to registered accounts and minimum (soon adjustable) payment thresholds.

{Warge

Dear, Warge:
I've worked on this job for two weeks or more before users are demanded for registering, and for convenience I bookmarked the page of list of works, then I opened bookmarked page directly and it truly can work, now registration is required but I didn't know this and have worked as the old way for some days.

Today I found the change and registered as viboracecata, I could only find the points under this account is 0, which is linked to address: 1C1pqZjzaQRFmUYDDe7u2jE22Kuk8eED77, which is my address, but there are 170 points are attached to this address tagged as invalid user id, so can you help to redeem these points to my account or they will be sent to me automatically regardless of the account?

Came back to this. The Ebay relevancy questions aren't too bad. ... But now I'm stumped on deciding whether or not a Vintage Gay Beefcake Magazine is an exact match for "gay"?

Please PM me the address with the 200+ pending balance and I'll investigate further.

Regarding problems in test questions and task design: their quality does vary a lot, especially when new. The worst interfaces/instructions/training-questiors often improve over time, when the task providers get feedback and realize the problems are keeping people from participating and getting good data. The best thing to do is give quick honest feedback and move along, and not worry too much about the apparent randomness/subjectiveness of any one task.

{Warge

On the page where you see your list of tasks (displaying the CoinWorker logo and your address and balances at the top), you can click the 'activity' link to see a summary of that addresses' activity. If the pending balance is 200 points or higher, you'll be paid in a matter of minutes. (The required 200 point threshold is currently the only limit on payments to registered users.)

If there's any other indication of problems on that page, PM me here with the URL/address and I'll take a closer look at the task history.

{Warge

Hmmmm just noticed under "activity" my BTC are actually coming, but its gonna be over 2 days. Scrolling down I can see they never took more than an hour in the past. Thats fine, just weird how the payment delay became really long lately. I wonder if theyre having some trouble back there....

Cool site, definetly legitamate, Ive made some btc so far. But the amounts are so low, when you work it out you'll realize how little money youre making...and maybe think about forgetting the whole thing and going out into the beautiful sunshiny day.

I also had some BIG disagreements on some of the answers, and I replied with my response why I was right. Only once was an answer adjusted from my whining. For example, There were twitter posts where teenagers used lingo that I feel like I understood but CF/CW didnt and it completely changed the sentiment if you know exactly what they're saying. Other tasks had multiple right answers and it was hard to figure out which was MORE right. Others relied on ambiguous standards or unfounded assumptions about which results were relevant to the searcher. I got myself locked out of the worthwhile tasks over this and cant do anymore coinworking... EVER :-( . The other tasks take a really long time and dont offer an equivalent reward, I mean 3 points is pretty low to do anything. I have a feeling I'm slowing going to get locked out of every type of job.

I have alot of suggestions on how to improve. For instance why not make the "click here to open up a new search window" link that points to just google.com just include the search string as well in the URL so theres no human error? All you need is a human eye and judgement, so why make them do the extra typing and clicking as well? Theres other stuff that didnt make sense to me either

On an unrelated note, has the payout stopped working? Ive passed up my 200 point min a long time ago and have had a 0.347BTC balance sitting there for days now. It used to cashout after 15-20 min... I dont want to continue if Im not getting paid. I like site and want it to succeed!

Currently, a pending balance needs to reach 200 points to be paid. (Looking at your account last night, it's wasn't yet there.)

Soon, once you've reached the minimum points once on your account, you'll be able to set your own threshold, so even smaller amounts can be paid on request. That's a feature in the works.

{Warge

okay seriously i just tried it and made 50 cents per hour, it was very annoying

Brilliant idea if you're a bored starving college student. let's hope it doesn't fizz too soon.

You need at least 200 points.

This is because I think that every week (or two weeks, or a month) It should be a general payout to all users who earned less than 200 points in that week.
The transaction fees would be very small.

How can I catch my current points of one specified address? I have worked sooo many tasks these days, but no btcs received

There are task which works very well like "Decide the Best Category for Events!" or "Flag images that contain adult content".

IMHO, eBay should reconsider the test questions, because there are more images that should accept two valid answers.

Test questions are to discard users who make random clicks or doesn't pay enough attention on images, not to test if user can guess if a "medium size" text was big or small, or some tinny letters count as "product test" or not.

Some of the test questions are remarkably arbitrary, both with the text identification and the map search engine questions. Anillos posted some good examples. The unfair test questions he points out are still up. (for reference, since I decided to try CW based on reference to it in another thread, I did not read what he wrote prior to coming here to complain.)

There's a big grey area between what's a "big image" and what's a "small image." There's no leniency if you believe a "small image" is a "large image" or vice versa, even if it's clearly a gray area per the rules. Probably the worst is how they consider images which are themselves advertisements to be "product text." As well, if you answer a test question correctly later, it's not counted, so you can't really go anywhere but down after a while. The "incorrect" answers you contest are not marked "in dispute" - simply wrong.

Outside of that, the system's simply flawed. Tasks appear as available when they are not. There are effectively three or four tasks available. In the "search on Google" task, it occasionally demands you recite an excerpt on a result which does not display an excerpt, so despite the explicit instructions not to click on links, it's necessary to answer the question.