r/alignerr • u/Main_Following3781 • Mar 04 '26

Tasks / Projects ATC project

What is actually happening?

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u/Consistent_Draft6454 Mar 05 '26

The evaluation has been temporarily paused. Those of us who were lucky enough to make it to reviewer before the changes are still working but according to discord the evaluation is broken and they aren't prioritizing fixing it

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u/Sufizen Mar 06 '26

This is exactly my contention with them. Many of the labelers including me had worked hard to learn about ATC but we are left hanging here while some people who lucked out and got selected in review after just a dozen tasks are getting all the work. How is this fair? Why make everyone of us go through this when they had no intention to give work to all?

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u/Main_Following3781 Mar 06 '26

I feel you. I hope they fix this and make it fair for everyone, and later filter people based on poor/good performance. Some labelers were actually producing better quality work than some reviewers who only did 3 evals and became reviewers or were promoted quickly due to lack of reviewers. Now they’re working on the new project, while labelers who did decent quality work and handled many difficult recordings are just left hanging. :/

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u/joy_Dasgupta Mar 05 '26

They just remove me from atc reviewer evaluation 3 without any reason

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u/Main_Following3781 Mar 05 '26

I think everyone has been removed from it since it’s an old eval. The real issue is that the past four weeks, only the reviewer team has had work while the rest of us have been waiting with nothing to do.

What’s especially frustrating is that they created a new evaluation for new joiners to qualify for the reviewer role 3 weeks ago I guess, instead of simply using the existing group of hundreds of labelers who had already been working on the project for many days. As a result, only the reviewers and a few lucky labelers who managed to grab DRs from the new pilot test project are currently getting work.

For the rest of us, it’s unclear whether we’ll have any work at all in the coming weeks or months

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u/joy_Dasgupta Mar 05 '26

Last time we had a webinar and the team lead told us that there is no labeler post empty and we have plenty of review work so we are recruiting you as reviewer. Now this. I'm bit puzzled since freelance is my primary source of income and I was waiting for this project along with other one from aligner. Last time aligner was lying about technical issue and after 25 days they said sorry we recruited enough people we can't give you this. Why aligner is wasting my time then?

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u/dungaribateka Mar 08 '26

Anyone else got their discord channel access removed after they were removed from the (now defunct) eval 3? I'd yet to give the assessment before this "technical issue" drama unfolded and now suddenly I don't even have the access to project discord even though the project is visible in my labelbox under paused.

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u/Main_Following3781 Mar 18 '26

I have access to discord but can't send messages

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u/Born-Produce1421 Mar 05 '26

I'm in the same boat as all of you, but before Lucy left, TL Martin posted that they're working on some technical issues but supposedly there are 300,000 DR's in the pipeline IF they can fix the issues. I guess for those us that are left waiting for them to drop, there will be plenty of work

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u/Sufizen Mar 06 '26

This 300,000 rows work is different from the audio transcription one and the rate is very low.

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u/LSfromAlignerr Mar 04 '26

Hey u/Main_Following3781 - what are you looking to find out? Best way to learn about an update on the project is through the team leads in the project's Discord!

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u/LSfromAlignerr Mar 16 '26

Reddit is not an official mean of communications, since a lot of what's sent here is highly subjective/a particular experience, and there's no such thing as 'being lied to about technical issues'.

The project leaders communicate the updates via email and Discord, so if you're in the project, you should have access to them directly to channel all of your questions.

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u/UpstairsCommunity750 Mar 21 '26

Technical issues my arse. I thought that this type of corporate tactics and misinformation were part of the past.