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Has anybody ever tried reporting Vortex to Prolific?

I mean they are clearly and constantly breaking prolific's rules and guidelines, they are placing invisible attention check/gold standard questions in their studies, and when you miss one, they send you this Urgent generic message to you on the prolific (when they could just light up a corner somewhere on pompous studio) just to try to get a rise out of somebody. I honestly think they should be banned from prolific and move to a data annotation site. you be extremely careful not to fail attention check/gold stand questions, but then they give you this task where you are evaluating two Identical videos, but one has different lighting than the other, how the f is someone supposed to know what natural lighting is, I am not a professional movie editor I think google is failing and it shows, I hope meta and chatgpt beat the brains out of google for mistreating workers behind the computer, and in other countries mining for their stupid rare minerals. They never answer messages because they think they're so big and it's not confidentiol study because the blue box doesn't show on the prolific listing. They play games too, they sent me a warning 50 something minutes after I last submitted, when it's usually takes about 20 minutes, what, you decided since you can't find nothing wrong with my stuff, i get one just in case? They don't know how to drop studies with multiple submissions, instead they flooood the board with singles, and I feel sorry for other researchers, because vortex is STEALing participants by luring them in with their 5 dollar 15 minute studies, oh wait 45 minutes studies because when you come out you see 2 or 3 more still on the board. How many people sent prolific a message about these researchers sending participants browbeating messages because they think they run prolific now because they pay us 20 dollars an hour? I hope there's a movement somewhere that has the power to put them in their place.

Posted Mar 14, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

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