Tips for Tasks Difficulties

[keauhou]

Here are some problems occurring with "find search rankings for keywords":  The phoenix o&s water damage one is broken. They wont accept the years serving phoenix area no matter what you input.
Telephone numbers can be copied and pasted, but usually you have to eliminate the parentheses around the area code.
Keep track of your input on scratch paper because often when I submit, one of the rank fields will go blank and not let me input again. I refresh and start that task again by just copying what I recorded.
Unfortunately, many of the tasks are broken-you should record the ones that are so you can "give up" when you run into them again rather than waste your time.

[BlackSheepNY]

Here are some problems occurring with "find search rankings for keywords":  The phoenix o&s water damage one is broken. They wont accept the years serving phoenix area no matter what you input.
Telephone numbers can be copied and pasted, but usually you have to eliminate the parentheses around the area code.
Keep track of your input on scratch paper because often when I submit, one of the rank fields will go blank and not let me input again. I refresh and start that task again by just copying what I recorded.
Unfortunately, many of the tasks are broken-you should record the ones that are so you can "give up" when you run into them again rather than waste your time.

For all of those Tasks that I had problems with, I've filled out "problem" reports on the Crowd Flower website.  They do read those posts and are very good at crediting you even though the Tasks may not have been completed because of any difficulties I may have had with them.  It also helps Crowd Flower to realize that there are problems with some of the Tasks and they eventually fix them.  They really do appreciate it when you let them know.