CloudresearchReviews of cloudresearch.com

As most people know, they made a faulty rating system in which some people with no rejections were rated 1 while others rated 5. Funny how no one is rated in between. This is clearly a way to knock people off the platform without having to give people a valid explanation. If you are someone considering putting up a study on the platform, please think twice. This is a crooked company that doesn't care about the workers or the requesters. Good luck to everyone affected negatively by this company's selfishness and incompetence in a world that is already way too cruel 💖

Add me to the list of people who randomly went down to a 1 star quality score. I saw returned studies as one of the reasons why your score can go down but it looks like they removed that. Been on the platform since it first started, was one of the beta testers. Guess we’re both 1 starred now

I've been an active participant on this site for over two years and was somehow given a 1 star rating after they calibrated their rating system. They used some kind of AI model to rate participants and have not been transparent about how participants are rated. I had a 98% approval rating from reaearchers, never used AI in my responses and still I was given this rating with metrics that are clear as mud. They are really screwing over users who have been providing researchers quality data.

Completely unethical—researchers and workers should go elsewhere. I have been using Connect for awhile as a way to make extra cash to buy things for my kids and help pay bills. I have never had a rejected survey, and have worked hard and honestly. Seemingly overnight I went from having access to surveys daily to absolutely nothing. With no explanation or reasoning I have now lost my extra income source. Don’t trust them.

Absolutely the worst come out with a new rating system and hurt a lot of people from taking surveys. I was very honest with all my surveys. I had 1500 accepted reviews with 11 rejects and thats not bad. My score went to 443 and 1 star. What a stupid company this is now. F-...

I had previously been happy with my experience taking part until a couple of days ago. I have 442 approved submissions and only one rejection and overnight I was dropped to 1 star on the new quality scale. I have never used AI and diligently took part in studies I was accepted onto. There is blatantly a problem with this new quality measuring but their support team do not care. I sent an email and was told I could build it back up in the future and that they would not provide further information or reply to any further emails. Great way to treat longstanding participants. It’s also laughable that the advice is to complete more studies to increase your score when you won’t receive any due to the low score. The platform is going to lose people in their droves and I too am leaving.

Is this how you treat people who have been providing quality data for you for years To suddenly bring them from 5 star to 1 rating without any valid explanations

Been a member since 2022 roughly when the site began. 5 stars before their new ridiculous rating system. I do not lie or use a VPN or any AI ever. It's only a side side side gig for me so I had 1200ish approved and 3 rejected so 99.7 approval rating. One star overnight. First it was "Returns and time outs count," then they ran around scrubbing the graphics for that because penalizing people for voluntarily withdrawing from studies is unethical and violates most IRB terms as I understand it...yet no one's score changed when the cutesy graphics vanished. Then it was, "You failed some secret internal quality check but we can't tell you why or how." Okay, then maybe your rejection/approval system is trash since mine looks great but I'm one starred? Then: "Approvals count more than anything!" I had pending tasks after the rollout approve and my score went DOWN. Whatever CRC thinks they are accomplishing here, I strongly advise nobody else waste any time on their platform or with their gaslighting nonsense. Including researchers. I suspect they are using AI text detectors, thereby penalizing people who don't type like third graders, and then bragging about their "state of the art fraud detection" to make themselves look "more profitable" on paper and attempt to sell the company but that's only a guess. At any rate, I'm done.