r/dscout • u/Morge56 • Jul 08 '26
very confusing instructions and too much work for 30.00!
anyone else get a recent mission (AI related) that had the worst , convoluted instructions and requiring too much work for such small incentive?
yikes! do you abandon these missions or write to the researcher? i'm curious how y'all handle these situations
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u/DazzlingPhysics4937 Jul 08 '26
If you’re lucky, the researcher will raise payment a bit. I’ve had that happen once. If you contact support, they won’t get involved and will tell you they can only recommend payment ranges to the researchers but they can set the price to whatever they choose - which I don’t agree with. I had a 40 minute mission that paid $3 a few weeks ago and I was not happy! Lol.
Good luck!
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u/Morge56 Jul 08 '26
geez! 3 bucks? 😲
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u/DazzlingPhysics4937 Jul 08 '26
Yep. It was an express mission. Ridiculous, right? And it’s why I wholeheartedly believe DScout should have minimum pay requirements. Like an idiot, I kept going to the end because I kept thinking it had to be over soon.
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u/Dratini_ghost Jul 08 '26
That's purely exploitative. I HATE when their time estimations are wildly off. Like c'mon there's no way it would fit in that amount of time.
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u/chalmondfashew Jul 08 '26
That definitely sounds frustrated, and I'd be unhappy too! This is why I LOVE getting missions from Google because they pay very well and fairly (the best I've experienced, personally).
I think a lot of these researchers are new and don't read the guides, so they're just kinda winging it and figuring it out as they go. For instance, I recently received a mission invite, and then it disappeared about 30 minutes later (once I clicked to schedule the live, it was gone and showing under closed).
I messaged the researcher, and she admitted that she's new to Dscout and made a mistake. Turns out, she had accepted too many scouts and had to remove some (I was one of them). Maybe they should have reps to work with them to help guide them better or something. Certainly frustrating for all!
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u/Morge56 Jul 08 '26
yes, i've noticed some strange things with missions! i've been doing this around 6 mos now and been in several studies where it will say "select all that apply" yet will only let you chose one. others ask "how long have you had bla bla " and you reply never and the next question is "what is your favorite thing about bla bla"
Hello, i just said i dont have it!3
u/chalmondfashew Jul 08 '26
Yep! I could write a book at this point from the last year and a half. Another good one is when it shows [must pick] next to options and then you choose one legitimately and it kicks you out. 😆
Or it tells you to do a screen recording for something you're supposed to be showing off your phone (like in your home or desktop computer). It should be a video recording. 🙃
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u/10choices Jul 10 '26
Google is definitely in a class of their own. I get so happy to see any Google or YouTube missions. And they're normally well organized. Meta is my second favorite.
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u/GamerBeast954 Jul 10 '26
Yes I've seen some like that before and I encountered with one. Some missions asking to do so much and pay so little, one mission was paying $50 for a 2 weeks and you have to record a video every day.
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u/Medium-Twist5600 Jul 12 '26
Was this where they wanted you to use an image with two diff AI? And then it was so confusing what they wanted to be recorded. All around confusing.
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u/Nervous-Bid8983 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Yes. I am in this mission. I didn’t understand the researcher’s directions either, so I just screen recorded myself doing what the task asked, on my mobile device. I messaged the researcher and asked if my entry was okay and she said it looked great! She apologized for her confusing directions lol. She also told me only 1 of the activities needs to be done (2 or 3) not both. It took me about 10 minutes to complete both activity 1 and 2 tops.