Wednesday, March 30, 2016

AMT: best possible advertisement for Microsoft's Azure?

I got a responsive email from Amazon regarding the suspension of my account!

Amazon now admits that my worker account "was suspended in error and has been reinstated."  
(Veteran workers and requesters won't be surprised to learn that my account has not been reinstated).



 The two requester accounts (says AMT) "were suspended due to policy violations as we identified three objectionable qualification names created by those accounts: “Professed Bitch,” “Puppy Stabber” and “double puppy stabber.” We have unsuspended both accounts. Please re-name the qualification names by March 30, 2016."

 Upon receiving that email, I immediately deleted the qualification " Professed Bitch" [sic], whose proud owner seems no longer to be active on AMT.  With apologies to my friend, veterinary technician hBoBh, I also attempted to delete the qualifications referring to her vaccinations of puppies -- but they weren't there anymore.  Notwithstanding AMT's demand that I delete those quals within less than three hours of their email, it looked as if that AMT staff had 'helpfully' deleted those quals already.  (I couldn't confirm that directly by a systemic alphabetic search for qualifications, since my worker account remains suspended). 

Unsuspension of the Babylon account wasn't competently performed, either. 
The requester can log on now, but here's what she sees she searches for prior research results:

 The account also shows that $5.70 is being withheld for outstanding HITs .. but there are no outstanding HITs.  According to the AMT requester interface, Babylon never published any HITs at all.

 "There are no other planets .. and this one is flat!"




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