Update for HitDB, hopefully it fixes the recent problem:

maybe recall a time when you felt powerless and scared

Hey thanks, maybe I can use that now whenever I get one of those questions :)

So - I use Firefox, should I do any of this? I update Hit DB once a day, before I start work, in order to update my own database. I just tried it and got the little error message about the count being wrong and other weirdness (see below if you need to) but I can work with it this way for today; I'm just not sure whether I should do what's suggested here and on the patch page on GreasyFork. The biggest reason for that is, I have not been able to successfully remove and restore the DB (as you explained a few months back) so if something happens and the database gets corrupted I'm SOL.

I do have a backup of all my Firefox settings (the entire profile) from last night so that one is clean. I'm just feeling a bit "powerless and scared" about doing the rest of this, especially if it's not going to do any good in FF.

I understand about the blank pages, that's been going on for a while now and I have a workaround (I check my own database). But it helps to have Hit Scraper give me the "R" and "T" info, and I'm not sure I want to try turking without that.

(Weirdness described below, read if you want/need to)

The CSV file I got today - the file that I use to update my db - is strange. It's only for the last week or so, fortunately - just pending hits - but all the records except for yesterday's are in there twice, once looking fine and once looking like this:

Requester ID field: ATGN6H8RX8CPO&requesterName=Corinna+McFeaters

Hit ID field, for the same hit: ?requesterId=ATGN6H8RX8CPO&requesterName=Corin

Yesterday's hits are not duplicated but those 2 fields all have contents like the ones above.

I did only 9 hits yesterday so it was no big deal to manually delete the extra stuff (plus I verified the requester ID with MTurk's status page) but I've lost the hit ID, which comes in handy when I get bonus emails. And of course I'm wondering if Hit DB now has almost twice as many records for me as I have hits.

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