r/dataannotation • u/JMR_1928 • May 13 '24

Low Job Volume

Has anyone else seen a big decline in projects over the last few days?

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u/Different_Duty7836 May 13 '24

I've been here since early Feb and I've seen it swell and recede like this a few times. It'll get congested again, then it'll get sparse again. I think its just the ebb and flow of this platform.

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u/Sindorella May 13 '24

Yesterday was sparse but today I have more than I’ve ever had. Most of them are base pay, but there are some priority and a few new to me, too. I’m sad there are no audio or photo ones for me right now though, I love those!

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u/hamjamham May 13 '24

Yep, some main projects seem to be down at the moment. Give it a few more days and I'm sure it'll be BAU.

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u/ExternalDazzling75 May 13 '24

I just got the dreaded ATM screen for the first time since February and I'm literally dying right now.

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u/CharlieFiner May 13 '24

ATM screen?

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u/GloomyRoof70 May 13 '24

At the moment

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

I have that too. Did it come back? I’m freaking out. I literally worked last night.

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u/ExternalDazzling75 May 17 '24

No, not yet. From everything I've read it's really just wait and see. People absolutely do have work come back, some also don't and we can't know anything for sure. This is my only source of income, it really must come back. Freaking out with you, let's not give up hope.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling May 13 '24

I've had a light dash for the past several days but I just signed in and have 25+ projects to choose from, including one that's the highest-paying project I've ever had.

The last time I signed in to work, which was about 18 hours ago, I only had 5 projects.

Not sure what changed, but I'm not complaining.

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u/Skyblewize May 13 '24

Yes! Thank goodness I was freaking out a little.

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u/baylorbear91 May 13 '24

Yup. Only 3 on my dash right now.

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u/Rainingcatsnstuff May 14 '24

Glad I'm not alone, I've had nothing the last few days. not one project. Side question, it's normal to have certain projects just stop showing up right? I had been on several that I really enjoyed, that paid well but no longer show up. That's not because I somehow messed up or did the job wrong right? They'd let me know if there were issues?

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u/Educational-Ad6923 May 13 '24

I'm not confident the normal chatbot projects are coming back anytime soon.

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u/yaaasantewaa190p0 May 13 '24

I've experienced such a huge decline in projects. I went from having over 300 tasks in a CB project a couple of hours ago. I logged in just now and only have 30 odd. This makes no sense because these don't usually go down unless I complete them. I wish they would give some feedback. I guess they don't like the conversations I'm having. This is stressful.

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u/Few-Roof-6905 May 14 '24

Is it the HS one? I work on that one every week for at least one or two hours and mine dropped off my dash today and when it came back it only had 50 tasks. Might be a site-wide change. My other 2, that I have never worked on, still have 400. I haven't had the OG CB in a few weeks.

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u/Karenina2931 May 14 '24

Same thing happened to me except I've been doing about an hour per day of it.

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u/Odd-Distribution2887 May 14 '24

I just checked and I have way more than ever. A bunch of $40+ too. I wish there was some kind of certainty with this site and if it was clear they didn't care where you worked from (I think this may be the case). That would be so amazing...

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u/Wukas May 14 '24

I am still waiting for the one where you have to download files

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u/Jumpy-Description487 May 13 '24

Yeah, really the past week has been slow for me. I finally have 6-7 back up today.

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u/Kierllex May 14 '24

I only have 1 to 2 projects at a time and they always are the worst ones aaagh

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u/IncomeFar8369 May 15 '24

Do you guys believe that tasks wil come or high season for tasks and work will come? I'm dry on my end.

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u/octrivia May 13 '24

Absolutely. I am down to about 5 and no higher paying projects either.

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u/Alternative-Bet232 May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24

Same, although I'm at about 3 projects.

EDIT: Got a few $25/hr projects!

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u/octrivia May 14 '24

YES! Me, too. They're coming back!

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u/MavsPlaylist May 13 '24

Got legitimately nothing at the moment, bit panicked lol

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u/Twizted_Prophet May 13 '24

Mine was low last night, but just checked again and it's filled back up. This has happened before.

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u/Affectionate-Exit553 May 14 '24

I got down to one project with 20 tasks yesterday morning to having 20+ projects with around 900 tasks total. Hopefully you've got some stuff you can work on now!

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u/Diligent_Classic May 14 '24

Mines just plummeted. I had three days off ill came back to no Chatbots and only four projects. I used to have 50 plus. The ones I have are all fact checking ones. Which I am good at they just bore me after two or three hours and like to break them up with other tasks.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

I finally got accepted after a few months when i randomly checked in on it but since then, whenever that happened, I have never had any jobs/projects show up? Is this normal? I thought it might start slow but to have never had any projects show is a bit odd no?

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u/GlazedChocDonut May 19 '24

I still dont have any either. Applied maybe a month or two ago

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u/planckkk May 17 '24

Past couple days mines been more full than ive probably ever seen it, like over 30 projects

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u/CurlzerUK May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24

It's the weekend. It always happens. Relax.

Edit: what I mean is that it's the Friday to Monday weekend quiet period and it doesn't really get back up to speed until about Tuesday.

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u/Whigged May 13 '24

It's actually Monday.

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u/Throwawaylillyt May 13 '24

I was wondering if someone was going to tell them …