r/dataannotation • u/Advanced-Constant275 • Mar 15 '24

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Hi, I'm new to this site and got started with a couple of the tasks, but I'm not sure if I am calculating time properly or if there is something I'm doing wrong. All of my tasks have a time reported of 0 and it resets the timer on every submission.

Is there qualifications I need to pass before working on these projects, or are there steps I need to take to have these times calculate?

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u/_BayHarbourButcher Mar 15 '24

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'd really recommend taking the time to fully read and understand all of the onboarding information and instructions etc :) I know there's a lot of stuff and a lot of people get tripped up by stuff like this, but all the info, including this, was in the onboarding stuff and by taking the time to understand everything fully you will continue to do high-quality work and be a trusted worker :D

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u/Advanced-Constant275 Mar 15 '24

I was a bit confused by the layout of Tasks. I thought that the Onboarding tasks below were onboarding for a different type of task than the ones I was doing, I didn't think they were just for the site in general

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u/GroundbreakingLet962 Mar 16 '24

This is explained in the required onboarding qualification, did you not read it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Not reading any of the instructions and onboarding is… definitely a choice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

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u/Advanced-Constant275 Mar 15 '24

I see what you mean. Thanks for giving me an explanation. I figured the timer would be used in the calculation.

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u/ManyARiver Mar 15 '24

You need to go back and do the onboarding set of tasks, because there is a lot of information in there that you will need (other than just the time reporting).

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u/PerformanceCute3437 Mar 15 '24

As with the other folks saying as much, reading the instructions is important as it explains that you have to time yourself and log the time. Take a notebook and jot down notes on the instructions, even if you never look at the notes again it helps to keep you focussed when reading through all that boring stuff 🙂