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My early years in Ravelry were wonderful. Through the site, I communicated regularly with fibercrafters around the planet. We collaborated on various charity events to help like-minded people who needed help with their own inescapable charitable pursuits. We were grand.
But then the climate changed. People with no real knowledge of politics suddenly announced themselves experts, and declared all who disagreed with their uneducated ideologies as white supremacists. HUH? Anything remotely supporting any ideology veering to the right of extreme leftist thought was pronounced unwelcome. Anyone who has a politically moderate point of view, or a conservative mindset, or is a Libertarian is despised on this site. These people are silenced while the ultra-progressives are encouraged to be nasty. In all my searching through the site's forae, I never located anything as profoundly hateful as the anti-white, anti-right rhetoric that now had a clear path to scorch anything within which PERCEIVED conservatism existed. Several people were driven away. Still, the majority of members are dewy-eyed innocents who would rather lie and hate and gang up on others so the site retains most of its enormous membership.
Then a major site redesign was thrust upon members. Even the far left members complained bitterly on the new design, a design which had not been subjected to usability or accessibility testing. The redesign was notably uncomfortable for many. Several members complained of discomfort or even outright pain from having to use the new design. When the complaints were laid upon Ravelry, its founder Cassidy went into a whiny rage, accusing people afflicted with pain of being liars, citing a half-baked article by a non-medical doctor stating that epilepsy with visual triggers was an unlikely cause of issues and reinforcing Cassidy's notion that the world was out to get her. I saw few member scomp-laints concerning epilepsy. Some seizure disturbances were reported but complaints were mainly issues with migraines and non-seizure visual disorders. The article was a poor choice of rebuttal, and why in hell would Cassidy do that to her members? Anti-white, anti-right-of-far-left, "inclusivity" does not include folks with various disabilities. This wasn't Cassidy's first assault on members' visual abilities, but it was the most egregious. Little effort has been made to help ease complainers' difficulties. According to Cassidy, visual disturbances do not exist.
I still check in on the forae in which I became acquainted with many good people. They are now generally quiet sad places. The ultra-left membership do not support the charity events we used to enjoy building. All the cameraderie is gone, replaced by suspicion and finger-pointing. Even in forae remote from the main boards. Ravelry is becoming a bleak wasteland.

I approach everything I do in good faith. Thus, I expect promised compensation for my efforts. Requesters frequently offer poorly constructed HITs that cannot be submitted, as they may require a code that is never generated, or they cannot be completed for any other reason due to erroneous coding. Requesters can reject on a whim but are not required to provide a reason, although workers can contact requesters. The ONE time I was rejected was because the requester was unable to comprehend the mTurk report received, on a HIT for which no completion code was required in order to submit, although she claimed that it was required (?) and only emailed a copy of her report that showed my worker ID# without any supporting evidence that there was a completion code required. Amazon took her side and let the rejection stand, although she got 15 minutes of my time and all of the data from my efforts for free. Not a good result. Another example came from a HIT that I completed BEFORE it notified me that I was not qualified. I contacted the requester who stated that the HIT had NO qualifications, despite my remitting a screenshot to both Amazon and to the requester. He refused to pay and once again I wasted 15 minutes, he got all the data he'd asked for, and Amazon refused to either discuss the issue with him or to work on my behalf. Then Amazon expected me to troubleshoot their platform for free. The only conclusion that can be made is that mturk is for people with a lot of time on their hands, who are happy to do often mindless penny-ante HITs with no expectation of compensation. I enjoyed some of the HITs, not only because those requesters paid as promised, but because the HITs were fun or interesting. Some HITs are reasonably well compensated but those are few and far between.
Another issue-more an annoyance-is in mturk's filters. I filter HITs to show only those for which I qualify, but I still get a lot of HITs for which I'm not qualified. My list also shows HITs in any of several languages that I do not speak.
If you need to earn money to pay bills, this isn't the place. If you have free time and don't care about the money, go ahead and have some fun.

It takes far too much time to follow up on EVERY promotion. The points awarded are insufficient for all the legwork. Mypoints just doesn't give the points until follow up is done. Frequently I'll complete a survey but then am redirected to the survey page with "Not every survey can be a winner, but here's five points for trying Survey #". If surveys offer bonus points, they will not be awarded. Each time I've followed up on survey issues, I've been given points but it is too much work for too little. After not receiving points for completing purchase-based promotions, I just don't bother buying anything through Mypoints anymore. I'll go elsewhere to earn serious points. This is just a way to kill time while waiting for something. In over eight years I still haven't accomplished that many points.

SB fails to credit rewards much of the time. You're supposed to get screen shots of everything you do to prove that you correctly completed activities or offers. But even when you do remember to get screenshots of every step of every activity, they tell you that your computer's fiirewall, or antivirus, or anti-adware/malware, or popup blocker, or whatever, is not supposed to be running when you're on swagbucks. I disabled everything when on SB for a solid week but SB still reneged on rewards. I'd like to know how they can claim that certain apps were running when you're completing offers yet they need screenshots as evidence? It's baloney. Also, when you complete offers on their third party partners, you NEVER receive the promised SB. You're required to provide screenshots to the third party partners, not SB, Which would be fine if they didn't gank things up too, like requiring you to complete a captcha challenge in order to report-but no captcha challenge appears. Forget reporting a problem to Swagbucks-they treat yo like a half-wit, telling you things that you already know because you took the time to read Ts & Cs and are sensible enough to follow rules and instructions, yet they manage to slide away from anything remotely resembling answers to their bugs. Watch out for the occasional disappearing SB. I've gotten a lot further with Crowdtap for all its limitations in a month than I have on swagbucks in more than a year.