mechanicalturk

increase HIT reward after publishing HIT in mechanical turk

Does anyone know a way to increase HITs reward after publishing them in mechanical turk? I have published around 2000 hits, and it's going kinda slow. I'm thinking of bumping the HIT reward($ paid to turkers). But i'm not sure how to do this.

Solution

  • Per the documentation:

    You can use ChangeHITTypeOfHIT to update any of the HITType properties of a HIT. All properties except for Reward can be updated at any time.

    In short, it is not possible. You have to close the HITs and reissue.

    UPDATE (July 2014):

    AWS reports on the MTurk developer forum that you can now change the HITType of a HIT to one that with a different reward amount and that the documentation is incorrect.