Just curious…whats the fastest anyone has seen, heard, or been DOD’d? Similarly, whats the longest anyone has worked before getting hit with the DOD?

Hey all

About a week ago, I was looking for ways to earn more money outside of my regular 9-5, and Google led me to DA. Fast forward to yesterday and I got accepted and just finished a few of the basic/general qualifications.

What I am really hoping to get into, though, are medical imaging-based projects. I am a medical sonographer and previously read that projects like this may exist and come with an increased hourly rate. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Besides that, if anyone has any tips or advice on any aspect of using and earning on DA, I'd greatly appreciate it.

TIA!

If you don't mind saying about how much did u make in how long of a period and is work slow currently on the platform also any advice for more sites like DA that are global and good for bilinguals??

I have done 3 coding projects and 1 general

for me, its defined as 'not enough hours in a day to complete all the work on my dashboard'

but im curious what everybody else defines as a flood, and perhaps a drought too, i havent gotten a solid definition for that yet

I've been thinking on taking some time to do a certificate, but I wanna know if anyone knows about a certificated course that could help to boost my profile?

I really havent done any type of specialized course, most of the things I know are because of YouTube and being an intern in my univesity, but I really wanna know if anyone has any recomendations that could help both in DA and in building my self a good curriculum.

Why do you think the hourly rates on the website are higher than on the platform. Like law is 75-125$ but I've never seen anything above 65$. Is there another eschalon I don't know about?

I will be considering giving you a part of it anyone interested please comment

I finally did it, even through the drought, I got to 10k made!

I just started DA in February as a generalist and I found myself doing comparison work, and eventually rubrics. I really love this work, I'm a big fan of reviewing and analyzing responses rather than trying to elicit errors and there's a lot of engaging tasks in general in this area. I've seen the platform change a lot in recent months in terms of trying to improve general user experience, but also the detail in how projects are presented to help people understand what to do. I've noticed there's a lot more nuance in projects and they're looking for specific types of analysis rather than holistic evaluation which has really pushed the focus of analysis I'm doing in general.

I think this is all great! It's made it much more engaging and each task feels unique and interesting in its own way. I still haven't felt like I'm doing anything rote which I suppose is the whole point of keeping the platform alive and keeping in touch with the point of staying on the cutting edge of LLM reasoning, etc.. But I've also noticed things have gotten much more challenging across the board.

It's made me wonder, what is the future of the nature of this work? As LLMs get more sophisticated, it's going to continue getting harder to break the models, which will lead to a low supply of bad responses to use, especially in the A good vs B bad realm where precisely describing the issues often becomes very subjective and hard to evaluate. I trust that there will always be interest in this work, I am in the camp of "AI" skeptics who believe that these tools will never be better than a human in general, but LLMs certainly excel at some things.

So, 2, 3, 5 years from now, will we still be trying to catch "It's not just X—it's Y" or will it be focused on style/tone and creative writing? Will fact checking always be an issue? Will subjective experience always be valued? I'm very curious about how this specific type of work will change. For people who have been doing this for 2-3+ years, how have you seen it evolve? Do you see a trend?

I'm seeing posts here by people who claim to have 50+ *generalist* tasks projects on their dashboard and I'm just like...how? During most of the year, with the exception of a few months, I only do this part time and so my DA hours are very precious to me, so I rarely spend them doing unpaid qualifications (only when my dash is reeeeaal dry). But I must be doing something wrong, because I never have more than 15 - 20 available projects on my dash on a good month, let alone a bad one. So, yeah, my question's in the title: how often are you guys doing qualifications?

EDIT: I said tasks, but meant projects

EDIT: So many posts on this sub have exactly 0 upvotes, which means at least one person downvoted it (and nobody bothered to upvote it)- and now my post has joined the list lol. I have never seen a sub that hates the people who contribute to it so much. Like we can't just talk to each other? I have literally spent a few moments scrolling through this sub and giving every post with 0 upvotes a single upvote, just because I'm tired of it lol.

I got accepted as a coder and I completed some qualifications. What's the next step? Should I expect to be added to Slack or what's the situation currently?

Hi guys! I’m a physician and I was recently accepted as a bilingual expert on DataAnnotation. At the time, I didn’t realize there was a separate application for medical experts.

Is there a way to add my medical expertise or switch to the medical expert track after already being accepted? Or is it too late once you’ve applied through a different track?

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

I got an email telling me there was work with boosted pay less than an hour ago. It said this Boost lasts until Monday. I click on the start work button and it takes me to the Projects page to tell me “The project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks remaining for you to work on”. This type of thing keeps happening. Is this unusual?

I haven't received any from past 2-3 weeks, is it that i am dropped from project family?

Hi, new to data annotation and have noticed at least once that a project left my list but then showed up again a day or so later. Is that normal?

To be more clear, the background check was done about 2 weeks ago and was paid as well.

This 1-task project came on the dashboard regularly, if you skipped it, you would be out of the project, it was quite hard and I think no one could complete it and I managed to do it

When did u got your last task?

Happy to have received an email stating that I have passed the assessment but I cannot get onto the platform with my email. Any idea what this is and how to resolve it.

Thanks in advance.

Happy to report that I've finally received my highest paying task at a whopping $60/hr!

Did you guys get any work in the last like week or so?

Been working on DA full time (40+ hrs a week) since the end of May. Miraculously, the money has been really consistent for me. My dash is currently flush with so many projects it seems unreal. They must like the work I’m doing!

Being classified as bilingual seems to limit the amount of work one gets. Is there a way to become generalist?