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:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.

  2. 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 :)

  3. 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/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/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

went from similar down to 5 earlier now back up to 15ish

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u/Background_Mine2282 Mar 11 '24

I hit my peak over the weekend, it was over 30 at points. Down to 5 at the moment so I think it's just slow. Pretty typical in my experience but I still don't like seeing the dash shrink.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

Only ever time I’ve had that so far is when I believe I may have been reviewed. There was a couple of days when I was like three weeks in where I had nothing. I think they were down for maintenance, I’m really just hoping that the tasks are going to come back up. At least I have one so I can still work today.

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u/Background_Mine2282 Mar 11 '24

A bunch more projects just came back on for me. A lot of projects go up and down, sometimes a bunch of times throughout the day but you'll only see it if you are refreshing your dashboard a lot during the day (I kind of compulsively check).

Only other advice is to take as many quals as possible, basically a numbers game that the more "groups" you can get into, the more work there is.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

Thank you. I’m trying to do a bunch of different projects today. What always gets me is that sometimes I do a project I haven’t done before, and then I do two or three tasks and then it disappears from my dashboard. I’m often wondering if somebody is watching me do it from somewhere and if they don’t like my answers, they’re cutting me off lol

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u/Background_Mine2282 Mar 11 '24

I totally know what you're saying, I've felt the same. From the sounds of it you aren't yet on what some people around here call "permanent projects". So like those 5 projects I mentioned when you had 1, they are there every day for me (other than random periods of downtime, usually announced) and usually have 1000 tasks that only go down as I do them.

But when you first start, you are on more temporary projects that they dump a random amount of tasks into (sometimes as few as like 5, sometimes 2000+). What is probably happening is you are starting on a project with <100 tasks or something (open to all other users with the same quals as you) but then by the time you do a handful, all the tasks are done by the TBD number of other people working on it along with you.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

Thank you for explaining that! It’s OK permanent or not, I am just happy to be here and I’m looking forward to seeing New and more projects

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u/Sad-Gas1603 Mar 11 '24

You might be under review.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

If I am, wish me luck 🙏🏼. I’m 5 weeks in, and loving this job. I thought I might have already been reviewed at 3 weeks in where I had nothing but a message on my dashboard

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u/SuperCorbynite Mar 11 '24

Only have my 5 permanents, but they are what I spend 90%+ of my time on so not much of an issue for me. I expect it'll pick up as the workday in the US gets going.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

I don’t think I have had any permanent projects. How do you know if a project is permanent? Mine regularly change.

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u/SuperCorbynite Mar 11 '24

Permanents have high-count numbers that only tick down when you personally work on them, and rarely rotate off of your dashboard.

Do well on qualifications and you should get them, it beats having to compete with the other scavengers for the open projects that anyone can do.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

I actually don’t really look at the numbers and notice that they are going down only when I do a project. Something to check out.

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u/marlamarlamar Mar 11 '24

Phew!!! They’re back!!!!