Task type · Research and checks

What your profile says before anyone reads a post

A profile is judged on a photograph, a line of bio and the top three posts. Everything else you have published is below the decision.

Profiles are assessed in about the time it takes to decide whether to keep scrolling. The material for that decision is fixed and small, and almost nobody who owns a profile can see it that way any more.

What to put in the public brief

Keep the profile handle private until a spot is reserved.

What to put in the private instructions

  1. Give a time limit for the first look

    Ten seconds, then the questions. A profile studied for two minutes is not the profile anyone experiences.

  2. Ask what they think this account is for

    Before showing anything else. If the answer is wrong, the bio is doing the wrong job and nothing further down will rescue it.

  3. Ask whether they would follow, and what would change it to yes

    The conditional is the deliverable. "If I could tell what I would get each week" is a fixable sentence.

  4. Restate that they must not interact

    No follow, no like, no comment, no message. Say it here as well as in the public brief.

Proof worth requiring

Ask for

Written answers, the platform and device, and whether they had encountered the account before.

Do not ask for

A screenshot showing they visited, or any proof of interaction. There should be no trace, and asking for one invites the behaviour the brief prohibits.

When this task type is the wrong tool

If you want to know whether your posts are any good, this is the wrong layer — it tests the shopfront rather than the goods.

If what you want is followers, no research task produces them, and anyone selling you paid follows is selling a number that costs you reach rather than earning it.

Audit a profile

Set the reward and how many responses you need. Workers reserve a spot; the profile stays private until it is theirs.

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