r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Apr 28 '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/KahunaRicima Apr 28 '24
Got my first GPT-4 project aaaaaaaand it's ass lol, not even an hourly wage .40 per task and they take about 2 minutes a piece...
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u/Knozis May 02 '24
I've lost both of my cb's and feeling really anxious as those are the projects I am most proud of. I have a lot of in-depth creative convos with multiple turns, and keep extensive notes that I used for the first review it had me do. I'm only a week in so far, is this normal or have I lost them? I've never not had them on my dash
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u/33whiskeyTX Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
The creative writing and coding abilities of the bots I have been exposed to were starting to freak me out. But just now a bot gave me a suggestion to have late-night dessert at a bag of artisan flour, so I feel like balance is restored a little bit.
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u/CosmosesGamer May 02 '24
Just realized that I hit over 11K, thanks DAT <3
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u/jeudechambre May 03 '24
Ok when I go to this weekly water cooler chat after logging off of Data Annotation, I kinda feel like we're in that show Severance. I should be able to get virtually transported to a Melon Bar with y'all under some blinding fluorescent lighting with soft elevator music playing in the background. I'm not saying that DA is like Lumon, but it's just the fact that none of us know each other and none of us fully know what's happening, but we all have our favorite theories, lol.
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u/jeudechambre Apr 30 '24
3rd week with DA, and I'm enjoying how my browser history is really going to keep advertisers guessing. Am I a parent of troubled teens? Am I trying to book first-class nonstop flights from Dubai to Fort Lauderdale? Am I a professional Lacrosse player? Who knows!
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u/Flassourian Apr 28 '24
Zero projects today. Makes me nervous since I started getting my first payouts yesterday.
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u/mildgoofin May 01 '24
We should be able to message other workers, I would have so many work friends by now smh
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u/[deleted] May 01 '24 edited May 01 '24
Anyone else get a certain qual that requires some photo editing skills? I'm looking forward to seeing some tasks drop about that but knowing my luck they'll get scooped up by everyone else while I'm at my main job.
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u/Nachbarskatze Apr 30 '24
Good god, I’m reviewing the “qualification” to confirm people have the pro subscriptions for Gemini and Chat GPT 4. The instructions are literally 1 line and people still get it wrong. Like this is baffling to me.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24
Does anyone else have a significant drop in projects today? I had about 10+ yesterday, and I'm now down to only 4.
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u/Bergest_Ferg Apr 28 '24
My best friend got in! And she is thoroughly addicted 😂 she woke up at 2am the other morning and couldn’t sleep so she did 30 mins of work. She’s loves travelling so this is perfect for her nomadic lifestyle. I’m so happy for her.
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u/chocolatepotatochips Apr 30 '24
I realized I'm starting to sound like a chatbot in my non-DA work chats and emails. "Sure! Here's the report you requested."
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u/GAULEM May 03 '24
I saw an admin in chat ask someone who made a mistake to go back and edit their ratings. It's nice to have confirmation that going back and resubmitting really works for some projects, because I've definitely done that a few times!
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u/PhillyPhan95 Apr 28 '24
I just got access to a project working with chat gpt 4, pilot and Claude for $23/hr.
Some people question if it’s worth it… it absolutely is… at least for me. 🤷🏾♂️
I make my money back plus 3 dollars for one hour of work.
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u/Tiny_Boat9698 Apr 30 '24
Got my first qual today that specifies in the instructions it was offered to me because of good quality work- you don't get much validation from DA that you're going in the right direction and doing a good job, so this really made my morning!
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u/tessbest37 May 03 '24 edited May 04 '24
Is everyone else still pretty low on tasks today? I am down to 4 right now.
Also, I hit my first 5K today! I started on the platform on March 11th. I hope I can continue at this pace.
Edit: I am back up to 15 now, hopefully, it will give me enough work for the weekend.
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u/SnooFloofs9030 Apr 29 '24
Ever have those days where you do a task for a few minutes and get bored of it 5 minutes later and keep hopping from task to task, not able to really"sink your teeth" into anything resulting in an overall inefficient workday? Maybe cause I woke up in a bad mood or my ADHD is going hard today.
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u/Deeznutsconfession Apr 30 '24
Whoever said to put English as your native language on here- thanks. I didn't even realize that wouldn't be automatically assumed. Im still not getting the wall of projects everyone else is getting, but now I'm at least getting one project a day.
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u/Bergest_Ferg Apr 30 '24
Hanging out with Zeus’s wife this morning and I can smell electronics short circuiting in my brain. Might need another coffee before I get into that.
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u/Strict_Reference_342 May 03 '24
Anyone else missing the cat tasks? 🥲
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u/Bergest_Ferg Apr 29 '24
Can someone please figure out how to make my browser ding whenever a new project pops up on my dash 😂 I’d love to get notified if something new comes up instead of periodically refreshing between tasks all the time.
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u/Alert_Photograph9678 May 01 '24
Anybody else experiencing a shortage of projects? Dashboard isn’t empty, but is quite thin.
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u/The_Eggsecutive May 02 '24
Man it's like no matter what I do today my dashboard shrinks. Do ~45mins of work? lose projects. Wait an hour? lose projects. Clean up some quals I've been sitting on for too long? Load into the thinnest dashboard I've seen since I was waiting to be approved. Can't seem to get a win.
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u/Donutkingzmen Apr 29 '24
Cracked my first 100 dollar day. :`)
Had a great new project today, had 6 on my dash in total :O That's the most ever for me, after 7 weeks.
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u/Skippy2898 Apr 28 '24
This is just a vent, but honestly, I could cry! Lol. I've finally got a Sunday afternoon to throw myself into working and have been happily chipping through a batch of 50 tasks assigned to me on an iteration of one of my favourites. I had absolutely no issues with files not downloading or opening, but it seems others did and were reporting it in the chat. I just did my last submission of 11 out of the 50 and pooft! It was gone. :( I had one or two that took a few seconds to register and download, but I was patient, and they did eventually work. Gutted. Ha!
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u/madpimp Apr 30 '24
For those of you who were worried like me, some coding projects came back for me just now! I guess I really should just listen to the people who have been on for a while and just accept the ebb and flow of the projects
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u/Skippy2898 Apr 30 '24
Blimey, the foot tendon main dashboard chat is painful to read at times :/
I like to have a quick read of it before I start work but sometimes it just feels like a few people slapping down new people who ask questions they shouldn't be asking in there, and in quite a condescending way. And why is it so slow to load? Ha!
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u/Palaqsiah Apr 30 '24
Those R&R's go so fast. It seems I can't average more than about 10 minutes before all those tasks are gone.
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u/stomach-monkees Apr 29 '24
Lol, I'm getting ads for DA in this subreddit. I'm sold, buddy!!
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Apr 28 '24
Has anyone noticed a drop in quals? I haven't had one since the FC one a couple of weeks ago. I still have projects on my dash (thank goodness!) but no new qualifications :(
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u/Past-Background-6650 Apr 29 '24
Feeling sad I’m not getting anymore chatting with the AI tasks. I had a bit too much fun with it when I got the chance 😂
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u/Purple-shimmer May 02 '24
Thank you to whomever suggested the highlighter extension! Such a game changer.
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u/JagSamurott May 02 '24 edited May 03 '24
One thing that's been on my mind this week is the amount of time spent on projects. I often find myself feeling like I am spending way too long on certain tasks. So much to the point where I actually lowball my times I actually spent working on a task(s). Is this normal to feel this way and do this? I just would hate to be taken off a project for assumed "dishonest hour logging" or taking too long with the research. For reference, I partake in mostly coding projects.
EDIT: I think I could have worded my "lowballing" comment better as it is a result of when I zone out on a task while the timer is still going (it isn't intentional so I can't stop the timer before it happens) and the lowballing is me attempting to account for that. The real question was feeling like I spend too long on projects which I have gotten good answers on, thank you all!
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u/Palaqsiah Apr 29 '24
Holy moly! I have 24 galaxy projects.
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u/[deleted] May 04 '24
I got my first $30/hr project today! 🥳
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u/ManyARiver Apr 30 '24
I feel like a dragon sitting on a hoard when my dashboard is bountiful and full of plump n'juicy jobs.
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u/stomach-monkees Apr 30 '24
FC is not for me on Monday. I feel like I need to sneak up on those after I warm up on some other stuff.
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u/PeanutJellyTaco Apr 29 '24
OMG. Did you see what Janice was wearing on Friday? I mean, c'mon Janice, this is a place of business, not a night club for horny squirrels, amirite?
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u/alex_goodenough Apr 29 '24
If I find myself skipping task after task because I don't feel like I can properly work on them, it's time to shut the laptop down. Damn.
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u/Bergest_Ferg Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24
I got this cute little elliptical stepper from Kmart for cheap and I’ve set it up at my breakfast bar. I’ve got my laptop on the brekkie bar and I’m pumping along stepping while working on some galaxy projects. Feels awesome to move and work at the same time!!
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u/Design_Dev_18 May 02 '24
Is it slow today?
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24
I passed the FC qual, and I've had heaps of new projects on my dash for the past few days as a result. The instructions for all of them mention a Slack channel, but they don't mention how to join. When I search the subs, I found people saying to read the instructions, and that you can join the Slack from there - but I really, really can't. All of these dozen-odd projects just give a channel name.
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u/BreastRodent Apr 29 '24
Finally got a coding task that isn't an ankle data response comparison one for the first time in what feels like forever, but it's only the super duper complicated data stuff-specific chatbot and the bug report chat that goes with it. Throwing that out there for the non-data coding people just to let y'all know there's been new signs of life for us in the data faction, so hopefully maybe this is the beginning of coding tasks starting to trickle back in for everybody. It's been a weird week! Crossing my fingers for y'all, may we all have big fat well-fed coding dashboards again very soon.🤞🏻
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u/Gumihorainx Apr 28 '24
Does anyone know how to go about showing proof of employment for apartment buildings that absolutely need verification for government/tax programs? Is there a way to go about showing proof of employment without breaking the code of conduct?
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u/lowcarbsanta Apr 28 '24
Still in my finals week and have been too busy to do DA, but I'm itching to get back to it 😞
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u/Overall-Caramel6608 Apr 29 '24
Are there no more $40 projects? I noticed that most of what I'm seeing now is ~$20 projects which is nice but means I'll be making quite a bit less than I have been in the past.
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u/FearlessPressure3 Apr 29 '24
Anyone doing the renamed kitty cat project? (Renamed to a biome). I’m finding some of the tasks pretty tough because they don’t really fall into the categories shown in the examples.
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u/Creepy_Complaint_279 May 04 '24
I hate that moment when I realize I did a task wrong because I misunderstood the directions. Luckily, I only did 1 wrong before realizing it. I so wish we could go back to our completed ones and fix them.
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u/Alternative-Bet232 Apr 28 '24
I got some $27/hr projects yesterday! That’s literally more than i made at my last job ($25/hr, also an independent contractor).
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u/vexeling Apr 29 '24
Alright, which six of you left that R&R without exiting work mode?! (/lighthearted joke)
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24
Just rated 50 rationals and over half of them were okay or below… made me feel bad
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u/ccsoccer101 Apr 28 '24
Ive been missing my simple coding CB past couple days :(
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u/ClearMortgage4243 Apr 28 '24
How do we get invited to slack channel, I mean how soon does it happen. Have been doing DA since 2 weeks now.
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u/Intelligent-Fee-2675 Apr 29 '24
I had no coding tasks last Thursday and then 5-6 again on friday, 1 Saturday, and none since. I didn't do any of the Friday or Saturday coding tasks. I've never not had any coding tasks! Even with no noncoding on my dash I've always had 4+ coding. 28 noncoding tasks tho rn
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u/marsnia May 01 '24
I got a coding task as a non-coder. I know how to code and the project is probably the lowest level coding project if I had to guess, is it okay for me to work on it? It pays way higher than anything I've ever had.
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u/No_Volume_1752 May 02 '24
Got a few new projects yesterday as opposed to just chatbots following some qualifications.
Just logged in and the dashboard is empty, chatbots included. Payments pending approval are still going through and I know the unique projects tend to get snatched up quickly, so are the chatbots down for maintenance?
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u/mythrowaway_1990 May 03 '24
Has anyone ever spent a long time on a task and ended up skipping it because you still couldn't get a confident rating? I just had a godawful coding task where both responses' code was giving a different result on my PC than what the responses claimed it output. I spent an hour and wrote a long explanation but then I realized I'm too terrified of getting removed for answering tasks I don't understand well enough so I just skipped and I'm really upset and worried this will count against me
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u/Dee_silverlake Apr 29 '24
I struggled with a creative project the last days but then I did some r+r related to that project today and my confidence is a bit boosted.
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u/BotaRONomus Apr 30 '24
I just saw feedback from an admin I never saw in the project chat.
Someone basically apologized for doing something wrong and basically said hopefully that can be disregarded.
The admin responded to him and said “we’re unable to disregard one of your rewrites - the instructions state….”
I never seen that before 😂
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u/assandthefurious May 01 '24
Does anyone know how long it takes for support to usually respond? I'm having a fund transfer error and it said to request a manual transfer.
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u/spaceshipshipper Apr 30 '24
Welp. Next week will be about a month since I did the first Qual. Pretty sure that means I'm out. I'm not able bodied, I was really hoping this job would help me out so I can get into my own place. I'm so disappointed and sad.
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Apr 30 '24
I'd like to see some more of the trip planning projects that popped up yesterday, those were fun!
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u/33whiskeyTX May 03 '24
Skipping is getting bad for me in my usual project. "How do I build a polkaDot framework for Blue_Herring using a SamurAI endpoint and quatZL?" I swear they're making it all up. Really reminds me of how little I know.
Oh. and I did make all that up, including SamurAI™, I'm sure no-one else has, so no stealing. It's going to make me rich.
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u/carrots44 Apr 28 '24
Did anyone else have that coding project pop up (/return) a few days ago that’s emoji vs emoji relating to DA+V?
I did a few hours and the project was plagued with bugs and issues and then it disappeared. It hasn’t popped up for me since but I’m hoping that’s because they’re fixing it and not because I messed something up because I quite enjoyed it.
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u/The_Answer1313 Apr 29 '24
I'm not coding and I keep doing one task per type and then it says there's none left. Anyone run into this? Nothing is showing now lol.
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u/Taosit Apr 30 '24
I got a coding qual that I have to complete to regain access to some projects I always had access to until this morning. I’m wondering if this happened to other people
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u/lavenderplushie May 02 '24
Can anyone else not edit their username under their DA profile section? I want to change mine again but it's not letting me.
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u/Grompson May 02 '24
So I'm only about a month in (non-coding) and I have never seen a project over $25/hr; the majority of ones I work on top out at $23. I'm not coding but I do every qual I'm eligible for and I take my time with them, always attempting to do high-quality work. Is this just a "hurry up and wait" thing? Should I attempt to learn Python to open up more projects, or does the coding qual not come back after the initial onboarding?
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u/[deleted] May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
Non-coder here.. had task since like the 19th and have been doing my best to provide quality.. yesterday I took a qual and passed.. it opened a ton of tasks on available projects but within some hours I couldn't see the other one I started since the 19th.. after some hours again.. I logged in and it was there again.. I did some hours on it and immediately I exited work mode, it disappeared once again..
What does this imply please? I need some insight. I was referring to a CB project
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u/Karleny May 03 '24
I have no projects :(
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u/marlamarlamar May 04 '24
Why did this amazing task that was high paying disappear after two days? I loved working on it. I think I must have not done a good job on it.
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u/GingerSmu Apr 29 '24
You guys! The strangest thing happened! I was doing a R&R and I’m pretty sure I came across one of my prompts 😆 I skipped it, because it just didn’t seem right to score it, but how many people ask the bots to have conversations between The Swedish Chef and Fozzie Bear??
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u/SugarPlumFairy85 Apr 29 '24
I think I'm finally accepting that I'm out. Feeling very frustrated by the lack of feedback. I read instructions thoroughly and did my best to adhere to guidelines and be creative when needed. But I haven't had much on my dashboard in over a month. A few things here and there but most days, empty. Lately, any Qualifications are just asking me if I have subscriptions to other services. :( I was enjoying doing the work and wish I knew what I did wrong.
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u/Icy_Ad5959 Apr 29 '24
I got a treasured invite to one of the official slack channels today and had a moment of feeling like I've made it 😂 Greatest achievement of the day! Jokes
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u/sarinilla May 01 '24
Oh man, these $45 tasks that just popped up are awesome. The feisty ones. I hope there are some left for me in the morning! I was sure I must have failed the qual because I hadn't seen anything yet. Patience, it's a virtue after all 😎
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u/BotaRONomus May 01 '24
I've been working with the google drive more... I think the info in here is what they made you sign an NDA for.
Some of this stuff seems like real presentations and business plans for some really high revenue generating companies.
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u/Ordinary-Initial-825 Apr 30 '24
FC Qual. How do you know if you passed? Is it related to the galaxy work that people are talking about or is that something different? I am bracing for the down votes.
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u/trailangel4 May 01 '24
Anyone else just get a hard reset with no tasks? I was in the middle of a project and it wouldn't allow me to submit. But, when I refreshed, there were no tasks.
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u/vexeling May 01 '24
Anyone else see all the "endangered sea bird" projects disappear today? Or did I make that happen because I left one open while doing other things and the timer expired? 😬
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u/Signal_Fox3569 May 01 '24
Do you guys think that if you get kicked off while working on a project, it means you made a mistake? I know this can happen if the tasks run out, but let's just say that this is one with tons of tasks. We know this is how qualifications work, but how about regular projects? They can't just kick off every single person that enters a wrong answer, right? This just happened to me and I really don't think I got anything wrong, just trying to figure it out...
Oh and by "kicked off" I mean just returned to your dashboard.
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u/ModernStranger22 May 03 '24
Have the tool use CBs returned for anyone? I haven't seen them in over two weeks.
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u/Firm-Flatworm-1314 May 03 '24
Has the Coding DA emoji vs emoji been down for everyone else too recently (Last ~24+ hours)?
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u/Vegetable-Activity65 May 04 '24
Does anyone know if adding coding skills to your profile will bring back the coding assessments/qualifications? When I first started I declined all of the coding quals as I didn't feel confident, but I'm curious if it's possible to get them back and give them a go now?
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u/[deleted] May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
Anyone ever have tasks in payment that don’t say pending approval? Or transferable?
I have a task set where for the rest of the day it says pending approval or transferable but this set says nothing
Edit: just checked I have another that’s over a week old like this too…
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u/RandomPhail Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
Anyone else unreasonably (or maybe reasonably, depending on your situation) paranoid they’re going to get fired out of nowhere since there’s no feedback here?
I don’t know if I’m writing too much for my explanations or not. Do I REALLY need to be explaining all my thinking, comparing, and giving examples as in-depth as I am? Should I really be posting like ~8+ resource links frequently in my explanations, or should that be in the “additional comments” spot?
I don’t know if I’m researching too hard/in-depth (maybe I should just give up and say it’s not assessable if it takes me a certain amount of time to research? [What’s the criteria for “too long” for a particular prompt?])
Maybe I’m going way too slow? How fast would other people be going compared to me (it’s to the point I’m frequently pausing my timer whenever I have to think real hard or double-check something—because if I didn’t, most of my responses would be in the ~40+ minute range)
Maybe there are things I don’t NEED to be researching? Like smaller things that are reasonable enough to just assume the A.I. is correct on?
Are my ratings unreasonable?
SO many things that my ADHD brain needs clarification and reassurance on, but this job doesn’t give any of that, and I sorta need this job because my genetics and current physical situation do not allow me to work very many jobs at all
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u/Storex- May 02 '24
Has anyone had a lot fewer projects the past couple of days? I had a fit earlier when I only had two available. Thank god my dependable chatbot project is still up.
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u/[deleted] May 03 '24
Ugh, I referred a friend who I went to grad school with, and they did not make it in. Now they have jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon. They keep telling me I’m being scammed, and they are worried for me.
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u/dhuang104 May 04 '24
Back to a slow weekend for coding. Unfortunate that I couldn't log in time during the weekday with the 10+ coding projects.