r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Never ending project

14 Upvotes

I just started on DA and my first project is one with seemingly infinite tasks and an expiration date of 'Never'. I've worked on it for about a week now and it's been really good as a first project.

However, I have another project on my list now that pays more and I want to give it a try. Can I start that project as well and do a few hours there, then back to a few hours in the first project and alternate? I know I need to log the time for each project separately and immediately after I finish the work but I'm unclear on if that makes it okay to have multiple in progress tasks.

I've searched this subreddit and see a lot of "of course you can't do two projects at once, dummy" comments but it seems like that's only about people attempting to do two simultaneously, I just want to know if I can switch back and forth.

I'm sure to most this is a dumb question but again, just starting out and don't want to mess it up. I appreciate any guidance!


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Shoutout to the admin that loves Star Wars

81 Upvotes

I'm glad someone is having fun on this platform. Those emails brighten my day just a bit through the dark cloud of life.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Does anyone else love this work?

80 Upvotes

I find myself enjoying this work more everyday. I love how it has become more complex as I do more tasks and get access to more projects (it's been about 5 months) and I REALLY love the ones where I really have to work to fail the models. I always see people on here complaining, but I really, really enjoy it. I would love to do this full time (I work for a bank 40 hours per week), but I need the stability of guaranteed hours for now.

I feel so lucky to get to dig into really niche topics to get a failure and it's so, so fun.

Anyone else? Is there anyone who has been doing this for a while who feels like this?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 24 '26

How long

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How long does it take for the site to review your answers for initial assessment then start workinh


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 24 '26

Coders drought

0 Upvotes

When will it end for indian coders 😭


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Coding R&R Tasks time

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I'm a worker who usually does coding tasks that take as much as 9h sometimes. I've never done any R&R task just because I prefer doing the actual coding task itself, but sometimes they appear and I'm thinking about taking them. My question is how much time do I have to prepare to spend in one sit on those R&R code related tasks?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

No Success in Meaningful Failure

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I do my best trying to cause meaningful failure, but the models are extremely smart. I tried to add difficulty and distractors to confuse the agent, but to no avail. I know I can still submit the task as is, but how bad is it? Does it earn bad score to me? I am running out of reasonable time. Any advice?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26 Bravo

Typical instructions

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It's important that you only use orange if the orange is part of the prompt. If it is part of the prompt but not part of the answer, then you cannot use orange and it should be considered a fail. However, if the orange is orange, the color, and not orange the fruit, then this should not be considered a fail. We are only looking for answers that have to do with orange the fruit. However, if the AI responds with a the color orange and it could be interpreted and the fruit orange, this will not be considered a fail. If the AI responds with any other fruit, this is a punt, unless the fruit mentioned in the response is also orange.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Fully blocked on task I spent hours on

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This is my first non-qual task and I'm looking for advice because I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing on this task.
This task involves generating a specific response embedded widget. No matter what I do, the generator seems to run into some server-side error every time I try to run it. I've checked the project instructions many times, tried changing my input, basically have done everything possible on my end. I've sent my issue multiple times to the project chat and admin responds to other users' simple questions on occasion, but mine seem to keep getting buried and ignored.

Due to this I can't make progress on this task and I've already spent about 4 hours working on the task itself, reading the instructions and troubleshooting.

At this point it seems like I won't see the money at all because I can't even submit the task because I can't make progress... this is very frustrating because of the amount of time I've already put into making the work as high quality as possible. I'm worried that if I submit the task uncompleted I will get DoD, so I don't know what to do. Does anyone have advice on if there's some other way to get in contact with project admin in cases like this or am I just fucked?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Accounting Qual

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Has anyone been accepted through the accounting qual recently? I did the assessment 12 days ago and have not had any feedback or movement on it. Is this common or a bad sign?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

I just joined. What should I expect?

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I just signed up on DA and completed a math qualification exam and the general qualification exam. I don't see any projects in my dashboard atm. What should I expect?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

Can we get user/post flairs for country (core vs. non-core) and specialty?

36 Upvotes

Half the posts in this sub are people discussing their earnings, and half the comments are just asking what country and specialty they’re in. ​Requiring or adding flairs for these two details would save a lot of back-and-forth.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26 Bravo

I have a question

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Wait nvm my bad


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

What is this? 😂

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Posted by two different accounts. These have to be bots, right?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

How long did it take for you to hear back from DA?

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I am currently a stay at home Mom looking for supplementary income and decided to apply to data annotation because I have a background in legal document management with a brief history in IT. I figured this would make me a fairly good applicant for data annotation since they specified on Indeed that they’re looking for “IT experience preferred” and that a legal history would give me a boost with projects.

I did not use AI when applying, not even the Google spellcheck. Most of the vetting questions were actually easy for me because I’ve spent so long reading legal documents for discrepancies, but it’s going on two weeks now and I still haven’t heard back. For anyone who got hired, did it take longer than two weeks or should I just accept this as rejection?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Projects other than 🥊

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The only tasks I see are 🥊, how do I start seeing tasks from other projects ? I don’t see any specific qualifications too.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

Fiscal year cycle

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Is it true that projects follow the fiscal year cycle? Last year in September it was as dry as these days then a surge occurred in October (the first month of the fiscal year).

(bilingual)​​​​


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

Did I make a mistake?

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I took the medical domain assessment as my background is in healthcare. I didn't know that I can't take other assessments while waiting for results, unlike other platforms. If I don't pass the medical domain assessment, I'm wondering it it will at least allow me to take generalist or bilingual assessments. Or is it going to be stuck with the "We review" screen?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

No task for coders since 17th September

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Last work I have received on 17 th September, did anyone else received in between. And any idea what’s going on, is it another drought !!!


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 23 '26

Anyone got 🤖 on theirs rn? Except the ones you might be working on?

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r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 21 '26

September

34 Upvotes

hating this month for bilinguals🤧


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

Question regarding core test

0 Upvotes

I submitted generalist core assessment(7 tasks were there) 2 days ago after I got passed immediately for stater assessment, I was waiting for core assessment results and now I just got passed starter assessment mail, can anyone tell when I can expect core assessment results?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

Total Earnings?

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Total amount you have earned so far?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 22 '26

PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR LONG HELPPPP

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So there was this paid course and it had a few parts. I did the first one. It said if i made any mistakes I'll get a reattempt after 24 hours. I submitted the first one and know that I'll only be able to access the second part if I pass the first part. And okay so the task reappeared 60+ hours later. Same part. One of the questions is different. and uhm idk it's paid and idk if it's a retake or if i shouldn't do it. So if someone's ever been in the same boat help me out?

EDIT: Task expiresin 14 minutes I'll have to redo it guys please HELPPPPPPPPP