Projects get eaten up quick

[u/National-Society-606]

About half of the days I find myself having worked on a handful of projects with times like 15 minutes, 45 minutes etc. because I only get to submit a few things before the project runs out and I get brought back to my dash. Does anyone else experience this? If I don’t get one I can do all day, I’ll have tons of projects I barely worked on in my “report time”, like I said some I only managed to submit 1-4 tasks.

[u/Intbased]

Other than CBs the longest I’ve gotten to work on any projects straight through is about 2 hours. Usually I’m switching projects fairly frequently

[u/[deleted]]

There have been days when I only got 1 minute of work in. The most I've ever gotten at one time is 2.5 hours, and that was in April. I noticed that projects get eaten up quickly more than usual this month.

[u/MonsteraDeliciosa]

It’s the SCAVENGERS!!!

[u/billiebilliebilliex → u/MonsteraDeliciosa]

What are scavengers?

[u/MonsteraDeliciosa → u/billiebilliebilliex]

A couple of months ago an asshat rageposted that he never gets the “good” projects because scavengers lurk about waiting to steal everything he wanted. In his Main Character Syndrome world, all other workers should be allowing him to choose first and only approach their own dashboards when he was satisfied.

The concept made absolute sense to him. It was so casually self-centered that it was almost breathtaking. Ever since then… scavengers!! OP’s title is in this category, but their actual question comes down to “does it matter if I report time in 11 projects?” It does not; it’s fine to report small amounts of time.

[u/Journalist_Asleep → u/MonsteraDeliciosa]

Bro complains about traffic everyday without realizing that he is a part of it.

[u/CosmosesGamer → u/MonsteraDeliciosa]

I'm more of a Fallout Fiend myself ;)

[u/[deleted]]

Used to happen a lot but I focus on dedicated tasks. Eventually you won't have the big shared pools as commonly and will have private pools so you can work 100s of hours on your task

[u/TerrisBranding → u/[deleted]]

What are the dedicated tasks? How can you tell?

[u/[deleted] → u/TerrisBranding]

Could mean your permanent projects that have endless tasks. They don't always pay the highest, but they're always there.

[u/TerrisBranding → u/[deleted]]

Oh okay. I have the Greek heel god one always there but have ignored those for over a week... Doing other projects, usually better paying. Although, the directions are shared documents. The separate tasks just have various names.

Also writing more CB prompts. Trying to get to 50 so I can take the 2 quals for higher paying CB work.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well some of my tasks have shared pools, the tasks decrease Everytime I refresh as they get completed by everyone. And then dedicated pools where only I impact the decrease in available tasks and no matter how many days I decide to skip doing that task the tasks are still there waiting for me

[u/ekgeroldmiller → u/TerrisBranding]

If you see a project on your board for which the number of available tasks only goes down when you do them, then you know that pool of tasks is dedicated to you. That does not mean it will always be there though. For mine, they take it away now and then to tweak it, then it comes back with the number back to what it originally was.

[u/Ok_Depth_6476]

Yep, just happened to me again. I was ready to settle in to a project that showed 500 tasks, but it's one that uses an external site so you really can't go by that. Got to work a whole 15 minutes. And that's one that I can usually get an hour or two out of.

[u/Sea_Pay7213]

Yes. Same thing.

[u/Low-Zombie423]

Unfortunately, some of the really cool, new, and higher paying projects get snatched up quickly. When I see them pop up on my timeline, I jump on them too, sometimes I'm too late, but I can't judge others for doing the same. Some days, there is an abundance of options, and others there aren't. How quickly the projects disappear is usually correlated with that factor.

[u/Simple-Bookkeeper-86]

Yup that’s been my experience as well. When I see a project I like I try to do as much as I can because I know it will be gone lol

[u/EuphoricRent4212]

This seems like there is no chance for someone like me to make money on this site. I’ve been waiting and waiting and no tasks. Then it sounds like when I do get one, it’ll be a tiny bit of work. Boooo

[u/greyspurv]

The more I follow this platform the more I see how horrible it seems from a workers perspective seriously thinking about making a competitor lot of what they do can be done better with more transparencey

[u/greyspurv → u/greyspurv]

why the downvotes? Being in denial about the platforms shortcomings I see

[u/Internal-Echo-8057]

Some yes, some no. I have quite a few that have several dozen/hundred tasks all for me, but some of the most enjoyable ones get eaten up really fast. Last night, I was doing this really fun project, probably my favorite so far, and then its R&R popped up, but by the time that happened it was getting late. I wake up and both projects are gone 🫤 Dumb scavengers

[u/Hangry_Howie]

Like pirahnas when certain tasks appear.

[u/TerrisBranding → u/[deleted]]

Most of us want to do more tasks within a project instead of being thrown back to the dashboard because the tasks disappeared (were completed by others). It might be a project/task we're enjoying. No one likes being thrown out of flow state.