New Alternate Online Income Site Review: CrowdSource.com

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Just stumbled upon this site the other day. If you're familiar with the low paying mind-numbing micro work of Amazon mTurk, it sounds like this may be similar. Based on user reviews posted on the job review site, Glass Door, there's the potential for diligent users to earn more. But it does require for many of the higher earning tasks that you have an excellent command of the English language. Most of the reviewers say it's best as side income to pay the bills if needed as most tasks are time consuming and require effort. As an hourly wage, it may not be the best paying gig. From what I can tell, it's a legitimate site with tasks "ranging from writing and editing to tagging and moderation". You do need to take time to qualify for certain tasks. To figure out if you're up for the tasks at hand they have testing they call courses. They do this with a very friendly user interface. If you're someone that likes those Reader's Digest type word quizzes then even though you don't get paid to take the tests, they're kind of fun. Think of it like a skills test during a job interview. MY REVIEW OF CROWDSOURCE.COM 1) GETTING TESTED. IS YOUR ENGLISH GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY? You have to prequalify with a test of basic U.S. English language before they let you do any writing work. Last night I took a timed test for a "Quality Assurance Specialist" which was basically checking if I could spot basic grammar, word use and punctuation. I think the test said it would take 40 minutes or so but I was able to complete it in about half the time. Breezed through and passed. Yay. Then I was allowed to do some basic, boring web fact checking on Yahoo.com. There's $.30 sitting in the dashboard pending. I'm assuming it's awaiting an editor or client's approval before I get paid. 2) THE WRITING TEST. FAILED. I then tried the test for the junior copywriter tasks which would then allow me to test out for any audio transcription or copywriter opportunities. By now it was 1 a.m. and I thought I could breeze through this timed test as well. My hubris did me in. I scored 75% on a U.S. Basic English Test which ran through "punctuation, sentence structure, pronouns, articles, prepositional phrases, adjectives and adverbs, verbs and verb tenses and word order." You need 80% to qualify. I know that I was taking guesses when it came to "indirect speech." But like taking the SATs, the good folks at CrowdSource are letting me re-take the test in a couple of days. I get two more tries before they deem me unqualified to do the work. Next time, I'm going to take more time and look up stuff on the internet if I have any inkling of being unsure. 3) RECOMMENDATION This appears to be a legitimate, low paying, work at home earning opportunity. It is best suited to native English speakers or individuals with a strong command of the English language. 4) YOUR HELP NEEDED I'm going away for the next week but when I get back, I plan to play around more on the site. I'd love it if some myLotters could check out the site as well, go kick the tires and share their experiences with the community. This way we can all share if the site is a good earning opportunity or a hamster mill. It would be great to help one another to figure out the ins and outs of how it works so we can all shortcut our way to success. Let me know what you think. Have you heard about the site? Are you someone that already writes or edits for CrowdSource. Share what you find out in a myLot post. And feel free to private message me or suggest your post to me so I can come see what you found out. Who's up for trying something new? UPDATE NOV 17, 2015 CrowdSource has been renamed OneSpace READ MIXED USER REVIEWS ON GLASS DOOR https://goo.gl/LCJaZM EARN $15-$25/HOUR | USERS POST EARNINGS ON REDDIT https://goo.gl/cAKRWv WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE http://www.mylot.com/post/2868324/ways-to-make-money-online