My first day using prolific, and I made about £60 inabout 2 hours, and it was pretty chill

Just a heads up - thought I lost about a jihad in transfer but apparently PayPal is having an issue (according to CRC).

Be nice to get a banner about this on Prolific as well if this is true.

edit: PayPal is now showing an incident on their status page that is impacting Hyperwallet:

https://www.paypal-status.com/incident/production

PayPal Update:

We are continuing to monitor the impact on multiple components in our production environment. We observe mitigation as of Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:42 GMT

Our technical teams have identified the External root cause and are actively working with the vendor to mitigate the impact as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide updates as the situation progresses.

edit 2: PayPal claims the issue has been resolved but I still haven't received my cash out. Let us know when you receive yours so we're all up to speed.

I was placed on hold a few days ago. Today came the dreaded form letter. I looked on Prolific's help page for reasons for holds/bans. NONE applied to me. I even got a response saying the problem was with the researcher but they still banned me. This is a plot twist.

I'm always a bit torn about the group equality questions they always ask like, "It is unjust to make all groups equal" and "Some groups are more deserving than other groups", etc. I tend to envision groups like a group of teachers vs a group white nationalists. The latter doesn't deserve any attention at all and should be suppressed while teachers are one of the most important groups in society.

I know, I sometimes have an odd way of looking at things

I have tried both my home WiFi and phone hotspot and I’m not getting any work. Any ideas? Thanks!

Immediately after starting a study and then when I try to select another study it says I currently reserved the study I chose first and I've erased all my history cache and its still not fixed

I started a study today, that firstly tried to work out my “tv viewing“ habits. It quickly came to an end as I no longer watch tv. It is now sitting “awaiting review.”

What happens in this instance? Will I get paid for at least honestly answering the initial questions?

Every survey I click it keeps coming up starting to annoy me

... rejected for finishing too quickly...

Haven't been able to log on for a while and when I do there are a lot of studies paying less than $1. This one turned out well.

Do you guys ever get burned out with taking studies? I tell myself I’m going to spend x amount of time on my off days and do studies for extra cash to throw into savings but I find it hard to actually stick with it I do everything else but takes surveys

It's been months now and I thought I'd be over it but letting go has been more difficult than I could have imagined. Anyone else look back fondly on our dearly departed Jim?

Guess my demographics aren’t needed today 😞. Guess I’ll keep the tab open and play some Skyrim.

Last week I was trying to take a survey and it immediatwly cancelledy reservation after reserving a spot saying I "took too long" but would not let me do any of the other surveys that were on my page either because it said I had to submit the prior survey first.

I sent a message to support and was just told something about how ",sometimes surveys get filled up or all the spots get taken right as you try to reserve a spot sorry " and I would get it... If that was the popup i got instead of saying I took too long. It gives you a popup that all spots were taken, and then refreshed and removes the survey itself from the page of surveys to take to show you all the spots are full. It instead showed me a page as if I didn't start the survey and the timer ran out on the reservation page.

It did this about two other times where I tried to take a survey, including the part about not letting me take any other surveys because it thinks I'm still taking the other survey. Is this happening to anyone else or is it just me??

This popped up for me and I have to wonder, given his constant scamming of folk using the in study screening to return people's submissions after completion, why on earth haven't prolific taken action to remove him.

No offense, today I had flashbacks of old Prolific where you can't join studies. Always high demand, and then... Gone, they're all vanished for the rest of the day. Every time there's a maintenance something breaks, and now it seems they reverted the changes made to the study fills that helped avoid high demand. Seriously, replace that person, urgently!

Hi all,

Just wanted to say that I have submitted my tax return in the UK for my earnings. I’ve heard prolific asking for this once you achieve a certain milestone so didn’t want to risk my place on the platform by not doing it.

I know I have until Jan 31st next year to sort it but I was intrigued on how the process worked.

Firstly it was very easy. Secondly if you are doing it remember to include your £1,000 trading allowance to reduce your taxable amount. If you have earned under £1k you don’t need to submit a return but I hope you’ve earned more than that.

I’m happy to try and answer any questions but might not reply straight away.

Thanks,

Is this just an error on their part or have I been effectively shadowbanned? My messages tab is still there - it just shows as no messages.

Oh my gosh, I’m working on a paper for my Neuro class for my BA in psych counseling. In the section about how the survey was conducted it said they paid participants .50 on a site called Prolific.

I’m sure it was some of you. Thankyou!!