Card #3257 · Prolific Marketplace
Unfair rejections and lack of protection from fraudulent researchers
Researchers are completing studies and then issuing rejections to avoid payment while keeping the data. The platform's appeal process is too slow, and there is a perceived lack of protection against researchers who abuse the system to get free data.
Pain score
0.57/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.32distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency0.95freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.64upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
They literally make you complete their research studies, and then they give you a rejection after they're done.
We get to RETURN the submission, but we don't get paid for our fucking time and the cheap scammy bastards get free data.
Prolific wants us to complete those puny little half arsed studies paying less than slave wages, then they must at least offer better protection against the many fraudulent, rejection happy researchers on their platform.
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