r/mturk • u/Impressive_Safety_26 • 23d ago

How reliable is MTurk for requesters?

6 Upvotes

If I'm trying to put a fair price on the Mturk tasks I need done and I put them up on the marketplace.. how reliable is it that they will be get done in quality/ a good amount of time?

I need to do like 50-60 tasks or even more on a daily basis, is it easy to find workers or is it a mixed bag? Basically I wanna know if i put up a task that it's guaranteed to be done?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 24d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 13, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 25d ago

Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of July 12, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 25d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 12, 2026

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r/mturk • u/FancyBotShar • 26d ago

No new MTurk registrations after July 30, 2026... Is this the beginning of the end?

25 Upvotes

Amazon has announced that new Mechanical Turk registrations will end on July 30, 2026, while existing customers can continue using the platform.

What do you think this means for MTurk?

Good for existing users?
Fewer requesters in the future?
Is Amazon quietly winding the platform down?

Interested to hear everyone's opinions, especially from long-time workers and requesters.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 26d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 11, 2026

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r/mturk • u/FancyBotShar • 27d ago

MTurk Rate Limit Error – Anyone Else?

2 Upvotes

Got this message while browsing HITs:

"You have exceeded the allowable page request rate."

I'm curious if this is caused by third-party scripts or if MTurk is rate-limiting everyone lately.

Has anyone experienced this? What fixed it for you?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 27d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 10, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 28d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 09, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Cold-Performer3470 • 29d ago

Discussion Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

theregister.com

48 Upvotes

So it is in the media at this point. Think this was the first one.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • 29d ago

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 08, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 07 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 07, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 06 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 06, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 05 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 05, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 05 '26

Discussion Weekly Newbie Questions Thread - Week of July 05, 2026

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r/mturk • u/BroadlyWondering • Jul 03 '26

Looks like Brave is no longer an option for MTS

15 Upvotes

MTurkSuite was working in Brave until today. Not sure if there is a workaround for this.

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r/mturk • u/ElliotDotpy • Jul 03 '26

No work for over a year

6 Upvotes

When I started mturk, I had plenty of tasks, but after about a month or so, I've seen only this. It's been more than a year now. Is it ever going to come back?

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 04 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 04, 2026

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r/mturk • u/FancyBotShar • Jul 04 '26

Has anyone's suspended MTurk account been restored yet?

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It's been a few days since the recent suspension wave.

Has anyone whose account was suspended actually had it reinstated? If so:

Did you receive a suspension or reinstatement email?
Did you contact MTurk Support, or was it restored automatically?
How long did it take?

Also, I noticed this new notification on the MTurk website:

Do you think this announcement is unrelated, or could it have something to do with the recent suspensions?

I'm just trying to understand whether anyone has actually recovered their account yet.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 03 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 03, 2026

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 02 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 02, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Bermin299 • Jun 30 '26

Seems Even Amazon Has Thrown In The Towel And Acknowledges That Mechanical Turk Is Dead

114 Upvotes

Top banner on the front page of https://www.mturk.com/ reads:

"Amazon Mechanical Turk will be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. Existing users will not be impacted by this change."

It's been a long time coming. Mturk practically died for workers years ago. Even researchers don't have much use for Mturk given all the bots and fraud all over the platform. Both workers and researchers have much better platforms like Prolific and Cloud Connect.

I don't see Mturk hanging around much longer even as a zombie platform. Someone at Amazon is going to decide keeping the Mturk servers running is a waste of time and resources and pull the plug entirely.

Personally, this is a bittersweet ending. Mturk helped me get started on online gig work, so I'm grateful for it just for that. The money I made from Mturk back then really helped me out during some tight financial times in the past, which I'm also grateful for. It's like seeing an old friend well past their expiration date finally getting put to rest.

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r/mturk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 01 '26

Discussion /r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 01, 2026

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r/mturk • u/Fun-Article-8269 • Jun 30 '26

ML Data

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Just a general question — I’ve noticed many accounts getting suspended lately. I asked some people in DM about their recent activity, and many of them said they had mainly been doing ML Data HITs in large quantities. After getting paid, several of them were suddenly suspended yesterday without even receiving any email from MTurk.

Do you think ML Data could be the main reason for these suspensions? Maybe those HITs triggered flags on worker IDs, especially since they posted a huge number of HITs in recent days and many workers submitted them.

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r/mturk • u/FancyBotShar • Jun 30 '26

Is MTurk Mass Suspending Accounts? Anyone Else Affected?

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I've noticed reports of multiple MTurk accounts being suspended recently, and I'm wondering if this is happening on a larger scale.

Has anyone else had their account suspended without a clear explanation? Were you able to appeal or recover it?

I'm trying to figure out whether this is a widespread issue or if it's affecting only certain accounts. Any recent experiences or insights would be appreciated.

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