This researcher was vaguely threatening in the information of this study: Participants who purposefully stay on any page for an unreasonably long period of time are unethical. Such participants will be added to a blacklist and be prevented from participating in my future surveys. For surveys distributed over the past week, I analyzed the time each participant stayed on some pages in the survey. The finding is shocking and frustrating -- nearly 25% of participants in those surveys stayed inactive on at least one page for an unreasonably long period of time. For example, for a single page asking about "gender" or "age", some participants stayed on that page for 30 seconds without doing anything. If the number of such participants keeps growing, researchers will have to abandon Prolific and switch to other ways of data collection. This researcher then would autoskip pages if they felt you were taking too long, giving them incomplete data...which was auto-approved at least, I guess?
This researcher's behavior is so uncalled for. I always skip surveys that have threatening language. It's not worth it. What this researcher doesn't realize is that some people stay on pages for fear of going too quickly and getting a rejection.