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  • Prolific

3/5/21

A survey site that pretends to care about privacy, and is unnecessarily strict and vague about banning/allowing users.

I wrote "thank you" at the end of every survey I did on prolific - and meant it. I did over 130 surveys, and prolific has to focus on one bad one. Or maybe it was several bad ones and they won't do anything until you finish 100+ bad surveys - who knows. Either way, I'm now permabanned.

1. First off, to even be able to do surveys: This is a survey site - it should not require a front and back picture of your ID, as well as multiple pictures of your face in order to be granted access to this site and get paid less than minimum wage to do surveys. This is as much or more than you have to do for a freaking full time job FFS, when the pictures actually go through and work. I had to spend at least 30 friggin minutes taking a bazillion pictures just to be able to get to take low paying surveys. All you should have to do is link paypal for the payment. That is it.

2. I had been doing studies and cashed out several times on this website using paypal over the course of 2 months or so. One day, I realized I hadn't received any payments in about a week, even though I had been doing surveys every day religiously. I just happened to go to my account page while logged in and realized my account was on hold; I never got an email. I sent prolific a very concise and polite email asking why, how long, and if there was anything I could do about "the hold". The very next day, I get an email from them saying I am permabanned with a huge copy pasta of their Terms and Conditions. I have had a few surveys rejected before, but a few out of 133 couldn't be that bad... right?

3. All I can do now is click "Delete account" now when I log in. It never actually deletes, because despite Prolific's pretense of caring about information privacy by telling you not to give out your private information when doing surveys, Prolific actually keeps your account and all your info associated with it - whether it's on hold or not. That way they can be unnecessarily hard-assed about making sure you and any abomination remotely resembling you ever signs up again, even if they mess up and banned you unjustly. How dare you think about making 30 cents from a 15 minute survey, amidst a pandemic no less! What a horrid human being... how dare you try to survive in hard times by earning every little bit that helps from being honest in surveys as you were told to do...

C'mon prolific... you're better than this... WE'RE better than this. I wanted to help myself and my family without being hassled for once. That's all.

  • Quora

6/6/20

I'd give them 0 stars if I could.

They even banned my alternate account for speaking up and asking questions about my main account getting banned. I and many others continue to get banned with no explanation or due process, and you're the disrespectful one - what an absolute joke.

They are 100% against free speech. My main account all of a sudden got banned and deleted 6/2/20, no warning, no explanation. 400k+ views, 3k+posts, 19 followers, all gone and unrecoverable. Apparently, this is a rampant issue, as I found out many, many other questions about getting banned on Quora already exist, as well as all the negative reviews containing basically the same story.

My ban happened the day after I said something anti-feminist, that is my only guess as to what may have caused the ban. I said something like "yeah, feminism makes you an@$$hole", as a response to someone complaining about their feminist mom being mean to them.

Many others have been banned as well under the same conditions; out of the blue, no warnings, and no explanations or due process. They just hide behind their "be nice, be respectful" policy while flagging your posts and banning you; all that policy really means is they can ban you at any time for anything they deem disrespectful and not explain to you a damn thing. There is an appeal decision option, but you will get an immediate declined decision after you click send, and is a total waste of time. It didn't even take a minute for me to get their declined response in my email.

How do these quoran admins still have a job after harming so many people? People spent their precious time on their site, and quora just $#*!s on them and there's nothing anyone can do but review them after the fact. How many more reviews and deleted accounts will it take for something to be done about this fascist behavior? What obviously oblivious company or individual would fund an organization with such consistently $h!++y practices?

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