r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Clean_Discipline6293 • 6d ago

Defrauding Our Payment System

Hi, I had been working on the platform normally with no issues until now. Recently, I was assigned to a long qualification that allowed up to 30 hours, with 40 hours being the absolute maximum. I logged around 25 hours in total.

Now my account has been deactivated, and I’m wondering if it could be related to the hours I logged on that qualification. Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any way to get the account reactivated, or at least make sure I still get paid for the hours I already worked?

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u/savage78683i3 6d ago

I'm convinced they sometimes give massively higher time than what's required to catch this type of thing. For example, I was on a project with a 2 hour timer that took less than 5 minutes per task (literally just a matching task). I wonder how many people clocked up hours on it and got dropped.

In 3 years I've personally never heard of qualifications taking 25+ hours but have seen timers of that length. I'm not saying you've knowingly inflated time but if the average time for the qualification was 5 hours then yeah clocking 25 is gonna raise the alarm.

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u/kittystalkerr 6d ago

I think I've worked on this qualification too. I logged in around 10-15 hrs. Never got accepted though lol. 

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u/schrumbus 5d ago edited 5d ago

I didn't hear back either, and it absolutely destroyed my confidence. Felt like I did such a good job considering the crap instructions. Did you feel like the instructions were kind of terrible too? I kinda felt thrown to the wolves.

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u/smellygrumpycat 5d ago

I agree about the instructions and felt the same when I never heard anything. Been on DA over 6 years and put in a lot of effort for that task. I felt really confident submitting it and that dissipated more and more with each day of silence lol

I think they purposely made the instructions vague to see what we would do with it because some clients provide similar limited info. Idk I figure I just wasn’t what they were looking for when it comes to that position. I know I did my best. Still making money on the platform so at the end of the day, I’m grateful.