I get batch assignments, 180,000 characters at a time and ostensibly about 4 hours of work. (Though usually it takes me less.) They are product reviews, questions about products, answers to those questions, stories about products, comments about other reviews of products, user IDs and the like. I read through them all and assign them codes based on all kinds of things like whether there's profanity or product suggestions or a million other things. I get all kinds of stuff, since we have over a thousand clients these days. (Essentially the company I work for manages the ratings & reviews on various websites for retailers and manufacturers.)
It's a really weird part time job. I have learned an awful lot about what people like and don't like about everything from televisions to cell phones to frozen foods to pants to restaurants. There's a lot of terribly written nonsense out there. Some is totally off the wall weird. Some of it is obviously spam or trolls, trying to sex up reviews of ice cream. Some people gush over their most favorite band or favorite shoes. (I would have never expected to get profanity laden vitriolic reviews of tomato plants that didn't live up to expectations.) Sometimes they are really funny, or really depressing. It is an absolute treasure of observation about people though and I read new stuff every time so it keeps me interested. I like it best when some company is having a contest and they want people to write stories for entries on some theme.
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Re: 965,432 individual characters
Date: 2011-04-28 07:10 pm (UTC)It's a really weird part time job. I have learned an awful lot about what people like and don't like about everything from televisions to cell phones to frozen foods to pants to restaurants. There's a lot of terribly written nonsense out there. Some is totally off the wall weird. Some of it is obviously spam or trolls, trying to sex up reviews of ice cream. Some people gush over their most favorite band or favorite shoes. (I would have never expected to get profanity laden vitriolic reviews of tomato plants that didn't live up to expectations.) Sometimes they are really funny, or really depressing. It is an absolute treasure of observation about people though and I read new stuff every time so it keeps me interested. I like it best when some company is having a contest and they want people to write stories for entries on some theme.