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Sometime last year we started getting spammed from people offering "survey bot" software that is automated survey taking software. Around that time is when these new trap questions started appearing in surveys. Things like "What big item do you plan on purchasing in the near future" or "What is your dream vacation". It's just my theory but I think these new silly questions we see are an attempt for survey providers to combat these new survey bots. When people cheat it's the honest survey takers that pay the price. We end up with lower pay and answering silly questions over and over. I can understand 1 trap question but some panels take you through 3 or 4 pages of them and that is overkill.

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I so wish more people would understand this. Surveys that used to pay at least a dollar I'm seeing for 10 lousy cents now.... I mean come ON! But it's easy to see why... if survey takers are lying, the brands asking the questions have faulty data that is of no use whatsoever, so I'm thinking (bite my tongue, I know) that if it doesn't get better, they'll decide it's worthless to keep paying anything at all and open online communities to get their information instead of offering surveys.

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I rarely need to join other sites these days as it seems almost all survey originators route to other sites. On Swagbucks I've had cint, Springboard, Toluna, GTM, one opinion, iPsos, and a bunch more I can't remember off the top of my head. Of course pay can differ among sites especially for routed surveys which pay less at times. So the comment above about them all being in it together has some truth to it.