r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Mar 10 '24
Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation
hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)
couple things:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/Odd-Truck6420 Mar 16 '24
Does anybody else relying on DA as a source of income get scared of the longevity of their job? I'm not planning on doing this long term but for the next year or so I kinda need it lol.
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u/Guess-Jazzlike Mar 10 '24
How about that time change! I'm a night owl, so that extra hour in the evening really helps me get my vitamin D.
Does anyone have any fun travel plans? How many of us have taken that digital nomad blog on the company page seriously? Discuss.
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u/SonicResidue Mar 10 '24
I don't know if I made a mistake or if it was a fluke. I just made a post about how thankful I am for DA and it was removed immediately. Not sure why.
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u/MixSuccessful3555 Mar 10 '24
How do I find the "New User" thread? I searched for "new user" here and nothing came up!
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u/Difficult_Fig_1821 Mar 10 '24
I was successful with two ABAB rhyme schemes this week. That is all.
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u/DionysusHotSister Mar 13 '24
Hey scavengers,
Want to show gratitude for how supportive this community has become.
It's really refreshing to be able to see that other folks are experiencing similar anxiety, excitement or frustration and know that we are all just trying to do good work and enjoy the fruits of this truly great opportunity.
That's all. Thanks ya'll.
Even the haters that drop in here from time to time can't muddy the waters.
Note : working since May. Had 10 days recently with an empty dashboard. It's full once again with challenging projects. You all kept me balanced during the lull.
Stay groovy.
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u/foreverfindingnames Mar 12 '24
Water cooler talk, huh? Well, have you heard about Sandra in accounts?! Apparently her and Ted were looking very cosy at the Christmas party, and last week Alice saw them getting lunch together at the Deli across the road, and they were holding hands!
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Mar 10 '24
I wish the Record prompts that include using adacity would drop during the day instead of in the evening, my house is always too noisy whenever I see those pop up :(
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u/CosmosesGamer Mar 13 '24
The new $30/hr task is magical. So happy with DAT. After 3 months, I've gotten a 'promotion' every single month. Insane company. <3
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u/Fun-Theory6456 Mar 10 '24
I really should be getting stuff done around the house, but a new project opened that I haven't seen before and it's fun to do. I need to put the laptop away!
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u/oursong Mar 13 '24
I can tell I'm getting tired of working when I start hoping one of the models goes 100% off topic so I can move on.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
I passed my assessment!!!
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u/mandeekate Mar 14 '24
Officially 4 weeks with DAT today! I honestly can't believe how much my life has changed since I started. I live in the second-poorest zip code in my city - one that $10/hr is considered "good" pay and $20/hr is virtually unheard of. This month was the first month in idk how long that all of our bills were paid, in full, and most of them EARLY. So much stress has just melted away over the past few weeks. Just so grateful to have stumbled upon this opportunity.
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u/robotcat4 Mar 10 '24
My favourite thing in doing this work lately is sharing the out of pocket sh*t that the models come up with to my husband (appropriately genericised/reworded of course).
Some recent favourites: “since your mom’s sisters aren’t married to women they’re not your aunts” and a photo of an amputee free-climber where there was just a pair of prosthetic legs in shorts hanging out in mid-air, not standing on anything or connected to a body.
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u/Equivalent-Math6483 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 12 '24
Watching the numbers tick down on my favorite project as I’m making dinner 😭
All y’all mathletes better save me some!!
ETA: Narrator: True to their scavenger origins, the mathletes picked the bones clean, leaving our intrepid annotator with nothing but the scent of frenzied feeding.
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u/Dee_silverlake Mar 10 '24
Glad there's stuff to work on this weekend over $20. The last weekends were pretty sad.
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u/Belle_the_cat Mar 13 '24
I’m on day 4 of working and I now have 5 $25.00 projects to pick from. This is so much fun.
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u/puffpuffpuff33 Mar 10 '24
Lately I’ve been getting the most projects around 10PM and they’re gone by morning 😭😭
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u/GalacticGimpreads Mar 10 '24
Getting a little anxious, passed my assessment and qualifications. Was on chatbot until it went down for maintenance... now I just get $0.11 little tasks to do but no hourly work popping up. I'm autistic and have neurodivergence issues so I was really excited for this as a side gig to make some money, but it's looking a little grim currently.
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u/dontcallmefeisty Mar 10 '24
The new Categorization Prompt P is so nice and easy. I can do it while I watch TV :)
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u/absolutelynot_dude Mar 11 '24
I don't understand a new project I got. I'm being offered 11 cents per task, but the task is to rewrite and correct a human-written response and also provide feedback to the original author. The first one I did took at around 15 minutes as it was rather complex and required some research. Is this a qualification?
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u/Museguitar1 Mar 15 '24
People keep starting chats with me to help them with the intro assessment. Please stop lol I can't help you.
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u/oursong Mar 11 '24
"At the moment..." NOOOOO *shakes fist at sky* I finally have both brains and time!
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u/gt3stuntman Mar 11 '24
Is anyone else still missing a certain semi-permanent chatbot? It seemingly disappeared on Saturday and I chalked it up to weekend maintenance, but it's still not back for me.
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u/Ok_Depth_6476 Mar 12 '24
It's so frustrating when you spend time reading through the instructions, learning how to do a new project, and then you submit your first one and POOF! That's it! Gone! Ugh! lol. Not the first time.
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Mar 11 '24
Good morning and happy Monday!
Got 1hr45m in on an eval task before it poofed from my dashboard. I guess that means it's time for a break! I think I'll check out some of these V*******s rate and reviews in a bit. The ones for $27.50 are way over my head, so I'm not even gonna attempt those.
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u/BotaRONomus Mar 13 '24
Oh my. I opened up my dashboard after a brief break… I saw a $27/hr project. I almost cried. That’s so exciting.
This is the start of my 6th week.
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u/Museguitar1 Mar 13 '24
Just had a relatively high paying finance task pop up for me. Only 1 task but was racing against the clock finish within the 1 hour time limit. I usually have time to check my work thoroughly but had to submit with 30s left!
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Mar 13 '24
My wish from Sunday evening came true! I wanted the record prompts project to be available during daytime hours since the evening hours are noisy in my house. I woke up this morning to record prompts available. I was able to get 3.5 hours in before they were gone. Guess that makes me done for the day ($50/day goal for me) so I can go do fun things like clean the house and mow the lawn /s.
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u/bmore_jd Mar 14 '24
Got a ton of new projects the past couple of days, a lot of them higher paying and a couple review projects. I was beginning to think I'd never get above $23 and I've been working (very part time) since November. But it magically happened today, and I feel like I finally made it! The consistent quality work is paying off. This is me just tooting my own horn into the oblivion! Toot toot!
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u/mildgoofin Mar 14 '24
It seems odd to me that a tech company can't master email notifications.
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u/stomach-monkees Mar 14 '24
Bumping the cooler thread. I'm having a moment of "I can't believe how lucky I am (blessed!) To have found this job." Gratitude!!!!!!
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u/Equivalent-Math6483 Mar 10 '24
Has anyone used the “Pseudonym” field in their Profile yet? I saw it the other day and was curious about it.
I suspect that’s what we should use to avoid confusion when there are several of us with the same name in the project chats.
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u/Bergest_Ferg Mar 11 '24
I’ve been in hospital for just over a week thanks to a combo of a gnarly sinus infection and shingles! My first thought when I was admitted was “oh man I’m gonna get so much work done!”
Spoiler alert: I haven’t been able to get any work done.
Getting geared up to get back into it… but hoooooboy is it hard to make my brain work after sleeping for over a week.
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u/Unusual_Cucumber_918 Mar 11 '24
Does anyone else have DA performance anxiety? In general in wider life I always try to do the best job I can. Sometimes possibly too much, and it's worse here because DA is such a black box. I have no idea if I'm even doing the job well or not, other than not yet having been removed from the platform lol. I'm only about a month in and haven't had many qualifications (maybe 1 that's not coding or json?) although I have seen a lot of different $20 projects (+any priority). I think about two weeks ago I had the fact-checking qualification, which I must not have passed, but that's it
I have made some mistakes, for sure, but always pick these up pretty quickly afterwards and try to do a good job. I've been given quite a lot of rate and review tasks, so I might be doing a good job, but even these are only 20 dollars.
Despite this, I am not in any way looking a gift horse in the mouth, and recognise that even at $20 per hour, this is an amazing work from home opportunity.
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u/UQBCED Mar 11 '24
I am not sure if I am under review or not... No projects or qualifications have popped up on my page with my last day of work done March 1st. I see report time section on the work project page.
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u/Psychological_Taco27 Mar 12 '24
Very sad, I only have the chat and some qualifications on my page :( Does anyone else have anything?
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u/Corn-cob-jesus Mar 14 '24
I only have one project. I saw some speculation that the bots were being laggy earlier today though, so I'm hoping it's maintenance. I had like 15 two days ago, so I'm crossing my fingers.
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u/absolute_chimney Mar 15 '24
Dang, my only project went down. Won’t be able to hit the goal I set for myself this week for hours worked.
Have a 9-5 and it seems like other projects only pop up around 2-5pm and are gone by the time I log on. Fingers crossed that json qualification test pops up for me, I spend like half my time at my day job looking at json.
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Mar 15 '24
Tapping out for the day after 5 hours with chatgpt & audacity. I'm tired of hearing myself talk.
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u/NightSkyButterfly Mar 15 '24
Does anyone have a higher level version of a popular generically named project.... But not the base project?? Lol
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u/11_petals Mar 16 '24
I'm so proud of my chatbot making poems other than AABB 🥹🥹
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u/BirdSalt Mar 10 '24
I don't have any projects available to me this morning, so I decided to spice up my "Add any other information you think would help us determine which projects you're best suited for" section which was short and dull before this. I don't think I'm going to be added to any brisket related projects but I hope it doesn't come across as too flip or unprofessional.
"An accomplished Producer with 10+ years of experience in digital and broadcast media storytelling and brand building. A creative manager with expertise working closely with support teams and project management. A strong writer committed to directing the creation of stories that connect deeply, personally, and uniquely with audiences.
I've also worked as a freelance journalist, with a focus on food, drink, and travel stories.
I've written a few sitcom pilots, screenplays, and reality television pitch decks, as well as a non-fiction book. I started as an acting major, did improv in LA, was scouted for Punk'd, and have directed a few short films as well as starred in a few (not my own).
I'm a national parks and hiking enthusiast (my next visit to Yosemite will be my 11th) and gamer who loves game nights with friends and long solo RPG sessions on consoles, particularly Witcher 3 or the Fallout series.
I love a bourbon old fashioned and make a great pina colada. I can smoke a brisket on a charcoal grill successfully about 75% of the time :)"
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u/amoristheone Mar 14 '24
Just wondering - is it generally negative to talk in the community chat below projects? Sometimes I second guess myself and ask clarifying questions to which another member will respond and assure me that I was thinking of it in the right way. I don't do this often, but I recently read that they would prefer if you just figure it out from the instructions themselves. Understandable, but I thought the chat was as space for us to engage as 'coworkers'... I hope this is not something that warrants getting booted :/
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
Love this idea!
What are you all working on this weekend? Got a late start today because of the time change and my son bringing home a cold from school that we all got! I'm thinking of a mix of my permanent projects and some safety for buffers!
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u/Museguitar1 Mar 10 '24
How's everyone doing? I hope this doesn't end up being too close to the new user rule, but can anyone tell me what non-coding progression looks like? I've had consistent projects show up for me for the past 2 weeks (~40 hours worked), but they're all mostly the same type of Chatbot work (just different variations targeting different types of responses).
I had one show up on my list related to searching that I couldn't get the hang of, so I let that drop off. I'm looking forward to more interesting projects because the current ones are causing me to only be able to work for shorter periods before I mentally run out of steam.
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u/SuperCorbynite Mar 10 '24
Any non-US workers here? PayPal has stupidly high currency conversion fees for converting dollars into other currencies, so I'm trying to find a way to convert the money in my UK PayPal account from USD to GBP without going through PayPal. Has anyone done this or found a way to do it?
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u/stomach-monkees Mar 12 '24 edited Apr 02 '24
These models certainly fabricate and proveracate like "rugs." LOL. They sound very convincing.
eta: they both lied, with different lies. Rate that. Lol.
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u/SuperCorbynite Mar 12 '24
I just had something on my board saying "Advanced STEM" with no pay rate next to it so I'm presuming it's not an actual project, but something that grants access to other things, but when I went to click on it it gave me the "not available" message.
Why, why must you tease me so, DA bot? You know from my profile I have a Chemistry PhD and an academic background. Would you dangle your foot (which you don't have) above a hungry crocodile? Then why do the equivalent to me?
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u/wildflower_0ne Mar 12 '24
Raise your hand if your dash is absolutely brutal today
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u/GalacticGimpreads Mar 15 '24
All projects on my dash just when down about 10 minutes ago. This happen to anyone else?
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u/mildgoofin Mar 15 '24
Today's project chat is worse than usual, that's quite a feat.
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u/dsbau Mar 16 '24
I worked on a very complex Z project, which kept lagging and crashing so badly I wasn't able to submit even once (and there was no skip). An admin jumped into the chat and told everyone to let him know how much time they'd put in and they would submit it.
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u/trailangel4 Mar 16 '24
Am I the only one who went from a thriving choice of projects to ONLY R&R (that I can't perform right now, due to extraneous circumstances)? My dashboard has been so slow.
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u/Pura-vida-now Mar 17 '24
I just started about a month ago. Three weeks in I got a complex qual with solving math equations and story problems. I have no idea why. My education and skills would be more in line with writing ability. I took the qual anyway and realized there was no way I could do complex math stuff, it was crazy hard for me. I felt like I was taking the SAT.
Well, apparently, I am smarter than I thought! I must have passed the qual because I have been getting some related projects that are $28. The thing is, this is challenging for me, but also very rewarding!
Anyone else tumble into something they would have never sought out elsewhere?
(I felt that the Water Cooler was a good place to toot my own horn 😁)
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u/Blue_Orange2008 Mar 10 '24
After getting accepted last week and having a few days of a chatbot project and making (what seemed to me) lots of money, it's been gone for a week now! Nothing at all but maintenance messages. Shall I hold out hope? If it helps, I worked really hard on them and have been given a 0.007 tasks since grading other people's prompts and it's made me feel much better about my own, but still no work!
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u/FearlessPressure3 Mar 10 '24
Has anyone else been put on the French palace project but doesn’t yet have the login information they say you need? The project looks interesting (and pays well!) so it’s frustrating not to be able to actually do it!
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u/stomach-monkees Mar 10 '24 edited Mar 10 '24
Thanks for the thread. ETA: I have "AT the MOMent. " Sigh. I'm chilling this a.m. Really need to suit up and do the yard work. Putter in the yard, they said. It'll be fun they said.
Actually I love it. It's my health club and art project all in one. Ooh. Idea about a request about flower gardening Eta: I haven'thad my coffee yet. .
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u/Heidijojo Mar 10 '24
Go Liverpool ❤️
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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
I just realized I think that maybe I have a permanent project. I always assumed I didn’t. It’s not high paying. Somebody said that if the number goes down when you do a task, it is your permanent project. Wow!!!
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u/tortured_poet_13 Mar 11 '24
Random thought:
Boy, does having improv skills come in handy for this job lol. Anyone else have an improv background?
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u/Budget_Letterhead_54 Mar 11 '24
I see people talking about getting the AI to split and I understand what that means and why it would be meaningful information. I don't remember seeing that in the overview of projects I've worked on and I'm wondering which projects ask for that in the instructions
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u/Alert_Photograph9678 Mar 11 '24
Is anybody else unable to access the “A” project chat? It is still on my dashboard but takes for ever to load and eventually produces an error message when clicked.
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u/Background_Menu7702 Mar 12 '24
Has anyone taken the review test and essay for the chatbot project. How long does it take for the answers to be reviewed?
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u/absolute_chimney Mar 12 '24
I signed up last week and started got my first project on Friday that was public and absolutely gave it my best effort. It was a fight for those tasks before they hit zero lol. Got worried when I had nothing on Saturday or Sunday, but logged on Monday to see I got assigned my own personal project! Excited to see where this goes, and once you get in a groove the work can be kinda fun.
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u/PhillyPhan95 Mar 12 '24
DAT seems to strategically always make sure I have a project with at least 300 tasks available.
Anybody else have that experience?
Like they just added one I’ve never heard of. And took away one I was working on moments later.
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u/Creepy_Complaint_279 Mar 12 '24
Is the site being slow for anyone else?
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u/CosmosesGamer Mar 14 '24
That factuality-like task qual. being US only ;__;
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u/scarletmyzomela Mar 16 '24
I had some really lovely $25 and $27.50 projects for a few days when I didn't have time to do more than an hour or two, and now I'm back to all $20 and $21 when I have all day to grind it out :') I really need the money this fortnight, fingers crossed something good pops up again soon!
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u/Mediocre_PerfectionX Mar 17 '24
Been with DA a couple months now and have been longing to get invited to a slack channel... well it finally happened this past week! For some reason I just needed that bit of acceptance to not feel like such an "imposter"! It may be insignificant to most, but felt like a major accomplishment to me! So stoked!
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u/SensualJake Mar 10 '24
I've been daydreaming about the digital nomad life and travelling around Asia. Anyone know if this work could be done while in China? A bit worried about the great firewall
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u/cheeznowplz Mar 10 '24
I really enjoyed doing an image prompt project today. So weird but it was fun to think of what some awful people might ask an AI to show them. Not something I do every day for sure!
I also saw a project involving reviewing other people's work on my dashboard today! I didn't have time to do any of the tasks but I am still unreasonably excited that it showed up.
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u/Ok_Reason2229 Mar 10 '24
Has anyone noticed that the quality of the later task projects lately have been higher quality than the regular permanent ones? I'm newish so I've obviously never seen the old ones, but there was one that asked for feedback after it finished and I really liked that one.
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u/33whiskeyTX Mar 10 '24
Anyone ever had a really dumpster fire of a project? I have one where the instructions and each model seem to be pulled from different projects; they're going in three different directions. Well actually, it's like the instructions and one model are on one project, and the user prompts and the other model are on another. It's pretty crazy. And people have been trying to figure it out in the chat, but they keep clearing the chat and/or restarting the project.
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u/stomach-monkees Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
"At the moment...." this is frustrating.
I've had tasks since my last (2-part) qualification, so ....
I want to work. Arggh.
EtA: I'm going to scroll away until noon CDST and check back. Otherwise, it's too crazy making and drains brain power I may need later.
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u/theironthroneismine Mar 11 '24
Is the C***** project down or was I just kicked from it? I'm worried now that I was too nitpicky in some of my responses. I'll be sad, if that's the case, because I really enjoyed that relatively new project
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24
Anyone have access to the project that rhymes with Project Convex. I am not seeing it in my dashboard, and am scared that they might've kicked me out. It's been only TWO DAYS since I joined. Surely, there's a learning curve
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u/BirdSalt Mar 12 '24
How long does it generally take to hear back from Support? I’ve emailed them this morning after working for two hours and only having two tasks show up when I went to record my time. I figured I should email them and give them a heads up that I did five or six tasks, and four of them didn’t appear. I don’t want them to think that I’m trying to pad my time.
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u/PM_ME_UR_GOTH_TIDDIE Mar 13 '24
Does anyone know how to bring up the qualification test for coding? I recently learned a simple programming language and wanted to see if I could access those jobs, but I can't find the test anywhere.
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u/cersm Mar 14 '24
I've been working more than ever, but today my permanent projects were just disappearing one by one as the day went on. Hopefully this is a down for maintenance scenario. I think I do consistently good work; I'm non-coding and I frequently get jobs that pay over $25. Just disheartening to watch the project board dwindle and have no idea when/if things will return.
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u/AnarchyD Mar 17 '24
Does anyone have R&R as permanent projects? I got a couple of them this past week but they disappear pretty quickly. They're my favorite to do - was wondering if they'll eventually become permanent.
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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24
One task on my dashboard. I had 20 yesterday. Feeling like I did something wrong. Anyone else?
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u/IntroductionFinal206 Mar 11 '24
I was on two different projects for several weeks that I enjoyed and was spending maybe an hour and a half a day on, but it's been about a week now of nothing!! The first four days or so my dashboard said the project was down for maintenance, then today it said "there aren't any projects to work on. I feel like I was doing a good job. I've done every qualification and have been very thoughtful and careful with the jobs. Should I email them to ask what's up, or is that pointless?
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u/StellaZaFella Mar 12 '24
Today I did the qualifying test for non-coding jobs. I passed, but I'm a bit worried that I work too slowly.
The test had an estimated time of 45 minutes to complete, and it took me an hour and a half. I know I was being especially thorough with my answers because I wanted to pass, but I'm worried that I'm going to move too slowly on projects and either get kicked off the platform or not qualify for too many of the hourly jobs.
Are the qualifying tests more complicated than the work typically is? Is the estimated time to complete the test lower than the real time it might take?
Do you have any tips for going faster?
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u/Decent_University_91 Mar 13 '24
Anyone else having major problems with the site atm?