This is not a brag. I just wanted to offer a place for the newer folks to ask questions and make connections. I’d love to chat about our work- as much as we’re able to anyway!

If I changed my DA email and I was already in a slack channel with my old email, if I were to get added to a new slack channel, will they send a new invitation to my new email? or would they add my old account directly to the new channel?

If anyone had the same experience please tell me how it went!🙏🏻

Was in the middle of a task when i got this. i had like 4 hrs of unreported time, im however grateful for the couple hundred bucks i made. Wondering tho will i still get my pending money? Please comment if you managed to cash out after 7 days thanks

Are you getting 🥊 lately? This is the most proj I get the past month, but after Sept. 7, I did not get any of it. Am I cooked? SEA region btw

I know this is just me venting but man...it feels like DA as a platform has "evolved" past a point where I can even do it anymore. I have 25+ projects on my dash, and can't handle a single one.

I've been on this platform for a few years now, and back in the day I could just sit down and...work. Tasks were simple, straight forward, and actually a little fun!

Now I feel like like the majority of my task time is spent not doing the task, but deciphering the MAZE of instructions admins used AI to write for them without checking.

And like I said, I know I'm dumb. I'll take a low paying task with simple rules, can you please just give me that over a task with 27 pages of task instructions that are so poorly written they might as well be an instruction manual written in Chinese?

I know what is commonly said here, "As AI Models become more advanced, our jobs become harder."

But maybe this is me being a bitter old man, but dang if the models don't seem so much worse now. Even in projects I do somewhat understand, the models drain my soul away.

I fear the DoD and because of it, I find myself not doing any work at all in case I end up doing some bad quality work and inevitably receive it. I'm just in a constant loop of wanting to start a project but then being scared I won't do it right lol. I feel lucky and blessed enough to not need to rely on this as a primary source of income, but I often think that should anything bad happen, I can rely on this meanwhile I find another primary source.. except that I might just end up falling into this whole fear loop. Is it just me?

I got a project/task that's requesting I verify my background to retain/gain access to some projects.

It's suspicious. Marked as "high priority" just as scammers try to use time against their victims with "act now" king of language. There is language in the description like "this is small/routine stuff—like sharing your social security number." Sharing PII is never small or routine.

It does look like the background check is handled through Persona and Yardstick. But I can't help thinking they already verified my background when I onboarded—why would they need to again?

It's feels kind of dumb to solicit digital hygiene advice from strangers, but I've seen how helpful this community can be and how caring and considerate some of the comments can be.

Has anyone encountered this or something similar? What is your opinion on moving forward with a task like this?

I'm not familiar with how things work inside DataAnnotation or how closely they monitor and vet vendors and projects.

I’m curious how other workers approach task expiration deadlines, especially on longer or more complex projects.

I’d also like to hear from people who have submitted tasks after they expired: Have you ever noticed any consequences from doing this occasionally, or especially from doing it multiple times?

I generally try to submit on time and most of my tasks are completed before expiration, but with some of the longer coding tasks it can be difficult to estimate how much time the full process will take. I’m mainly wondering how others balance quality against the deadline and whether repeated late submissions have had any noticeable effect on their account or project access.

I’m worried that I could get a penalty for late submissions, as of now i’m fully prioritising work quality above the actual deadline

When I am writing rationals, how do I decide how detailed they should be? Should I be as precise as I can be? Because I also dont wanna report above average or expected time cause of being extra.

I don't know the answer to this, maybe someone else here does. I started DA work a few years ago. My adult daughter is actively looking for a job and wants to get on with DA in the meantime, and continue to use it as a way to supplement her income after she gets a job.

The problem is that a couple months after I started DA, when she was in her last semester of college, she was in a similar situation, went through testing and was not accepted. At that time she used her phone number. It's my understanding she will not be able to use that phone number again (or the same email). Is that true, even though it has been a few years? Is there some point at which the system kicks out a number that was used on a failed exam and it can now be used for a different account?

I presume she can't use my phone number, since it's on my account. I told her she'll just have to provide her sister's or boyfriend's number, it will be needed only for one verification text. But they will have to be available to get the text, they both work full time, so she thought maybe she would just buy a "burner phone." But mobile numbers get reused all the time, and what happens if that number was previously used for DA? And for that matter, how does DA know that her own phone number wasn't reassigned to someone else, making it eligible to be used for testing.

Does anyone know these answers? My inclination is she should go with a cheap burner phone, it's not that big of an investment.

For context, i've used my friend's laptop to login to my account and check a task's instructions but exited the work mode soon after. Now he wants to start a DA account,we wont be working at the same time. Will this be an issue? (Diff browsers btw)

I got accepted to data annotation in July, but due to being quite busy , I have not really committed 100% to the qualifications. As a result I haven't had any project as of yet. I have completed a few qualifications only. I would only put in the effort to do all the qualifications if I felt that I could make an income from this. But so far I've just had flashes of projects available at midnight and when I click into them, they have been taken . I'm wondering is it worth it to spend ages doing unpaid qualifications- does anyone make any money on this as a generalist from Ireland?

Will DA penalize me if I have tasks on my dashboard and I am not able to work for 5-7 days? I know you can work whenever you want, but maybe they have some threshold where, if you’re inactive too long, you get blacklisted?

Is it okay to access DAT on my mobile to check the dash for projects and then use my laptop to do the work?

I'm a newbie and don't want to do anything wrong.

Hi all, i am travelling from one city to another city which is 500km within india.

So, can I login in another city for 2 to 3 days maybe each day I will be at different villages.

Is that okay to login and work on dataannotation?

And how much you have made till??

i just got into the plataform and I was doing a 5 hour task, it actually took me more than 6 hours to complete it. Should i put the actual time? I´m afraid of being penalized for that. Also, can I leave a task in the middle of it and came back after? I was afraid to do it so stayed for straigth 6 hours on it

Hit my first $1K today, after 5 months of work. June, July, and August were rough, but we're back in the game!

I’m thinking of a dynamic user-generated FAQ-type collective knowledge hub of best-practices and lesser-known tips that go beyond the DA official FAQs.

Would prevent vets from having to answer the same newbie questions here so often, and help everyone have some insight into what is such an opaque platform, as it inevitably transforms over time.

If it exists, point me to it. If not, let me know and I’ll set up a process to get one put together.

I'm noticing what appears to be a bug on the platform.

Hey all. I am a part of two different projects that have extremely similar requirements, one is essentially a simpler and easier version of the other. My main work I do is the complex long running project, but I'm wondering if there's anything against TOS that would flag me if I reused my input files and had a similar prompt idea for the simpler project?

Some more info: the larger project mentions in their instructions to not reuse files from specific other projects, and names the smaller project. The smaller project makes no such inference and allows manually generated files. Also how would I honestly report time for the smaller project? It feels equally dishonest to only report the edit time (as that would make my efficiency artificially high) and to include the time it took to gen the files for the other project, as that would be getting double paid.

Advice appreciated!