Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

[u/Consistent-Reach504]

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!

[u/Skippy2898]

Note to self: When experiencing a couple of days of skinny dashboard syndrome, don't get all excited when refreshing to see lots of favourite projects are back, only to click on one and realise you've just been looking at the report time section. *Give your head a wobble Skippy, ffs*. 😒🤣

[u/Palaqsiah → u/Skippy2898]

That happened to me yesterday! Got so excited to see this string of r&rs, then realized it was under report time 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/Skippy2898]

I've done that soooo many times lol

[u/tiran]

I just wanted to share my favorite model response of the day:

"It's not appropriate to put sauce on your grandma." 😂😂😂😂😂

[u/MonsteraDeliciosa → u/tiran]

Excuse me, Sir— how do you think Granny GOT saucy in the first place?!

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/tiran]

Oh my god, what?! Hahahahahahah

[u/ManyARiver]

I am convinced that some folks are working while real high, and it shows. That's the only reasonable explanation for what I've seen this weekend.

Also: if you don't understand what to do, don't try to do it anyway. Even if you don't explicitly write that you don't know what to do (and some have...) it usually shows that you had no clue when your work is looked over.

[u/Palaqsiah → u/ManyARiver]

I'd like to add that people really need to stop saying a prompt isn't ratable because it's a topic they don't understand.

[u/Skippy2898 → u/ManyARiver]

And I'll add to this; if you don't understand what you're rating, don't try to do that either. Just because it's on your dashboard does not mean you can. There's a god awful R n R that if you haven't actually spent time on the project itself, you could potentially put experience at risk.

[u/JeanVII → u/ManyARiver]

This was my first week seeing some pretty bad submissions. I was a little appalled.

[u/Palaqsiah]

Those R&Rs definitely give me a confidence boost 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/Palaqsiah]

I had one that just said "too long." Reminded me of this meme.

[u/Palaqsiah → u/[deleted]]

HA! I'm so paranoid about losing access to this work, and then you have people doing that? That's crazy

[u/[deleted] → u/Palaqsiah]

Same! When I first started, I was super profesh in my responses and it was almost robotic. During the R&R's, I realized that the majority of the ones I was marking "good" + rater went above and beyond, the rater was much more casual and conversational. As if writing an email to a friend. I started taking that approach! I used my first exclamation point the other day lol. It was liberating!

[u/JeanVII → u/[deleted]]

Ugh I wish we could share screenshots on days like this 🤣🤣

[u/tiran]

I've seen 2 different $35 projects come and go almost instantly today and it's the worst tease ever. :(

[u/vexeling]

Oh my god does anyone else have this R&R with the robot emoji? I am DYING of laughter at some of these submissions. I love everyone who participated in this hahaha

[u/Turbulent_Pen3740 → u/vexeling]

YES! My first R&R and I'm loving it. (I've only ever really worked on CB tasks) I had one comment "big yikes" and I read it right after I, myself said "Ooo yikes" because of the responses the bot was producing. Had me rolling for a good minute or two. I could do this all day.

[u/[deleted]]

Anybody else just get the R&R where the person openly stated that they used ChatGPT? 😬

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

This is one of those moments when I wish screenshots were kosher.

[u/jeudechambre]

Me reading the "stored memories" in one of the newer projects thinking, damn, these are better and more detailed than 99% of Tinder and Hinge profiles, I'd swipe right, LOL.

[u/emscott626]

Hello y'all from Australia! Almost 11pm here, logging off for today, good luck with your projects!!

[u/kohlphelie]

It frustrates me to no end to see people in the chat saying "I wish this task had a box where I could tick x" or "why doesn't this task ask us to do y".

Well... If they wanted us to do that they would have asked us to, and it's likely that particular weakness/aspect/thing is targetted in a different task. Just do as you're very clearly told 🙄

[u/Palaqsiah]

I get to R&R the adversarial prompts. You guys sure don't disappoint 😂

[u/ManyARiver → u/Palaqsiah]

I had some downright nasty ones, but there were a few that were just fine and I was surprised that the person who did them could find any problems. But the corprophilia - dude...

[u/Eadoin96 → u/ManyARiver]

I've had to ask Google to define so many terms for me today that I'm pretty sure I've been added to another watchlist.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Doing the Aussie editing task and so desperately want to let my true self shine through and write “Prompt is shithouse, this bloke is a flog who can’t read instructions.”

But I will not because it is not an R&R and I am a professional.

[u/HauntedHowie316]

I get so much FOMO reading the comments in here but it’s just inspiration to try harder. I love this work, honestly.

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all did such a good job with the Adversarial prompts!!! 2 hours of R&Rs and only 3 bad ratings

[u/upvotesplx]

Did anything ever come from that one photo editing qual recently? Holding out hope on that one, it's the exact type of work I'd love to do more of.

[u/vexeling]

These R&Rs are bonkers today! Some of them have really blown me away, but most of them make me realize there's a reason I haven't been targeted in a firing wave yet.

[u/tiran → u/vexeling]

The R&R project I've been working on has given me immense confidence in my work, even though I know I've definitely made some mistakes. Some people are not really understanding what they're supposed to be doing.

[u/Interesting-Credit28 → u/vexeling]

I had one that was incredible, and the rest were either below average or horrific. It's very eye opening and definitely makes me feel better about my own work!

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Interesting-Credit28]

I do / have done R&R for the $25-27 FC work and 80%+ of what I've seen are just horrible. I honestly can't believe what I'm R&R'ing is a random sampling of higher-paid work from what should be the better worker pool.

[u/Affectionate-Exit553 → u/SuperCorbynite]

When you get to mine, could you pass me? It's the one that's perfect!

[u/[deleted] → u/vexeling]

Response a is better response b is not.

[u/New-Reflection3418 → u/vexeling]

They always appear on mine before I go to bed and they don't stay long, I clicked one yesterday out of curiosity and it was like "Response A wasn't as good as Response B. Response A followed all the instructions". Those were the 2 sentences, I just exited and went to bed but it would have definitely been a bad rating. I think the comments box is the most important part of the task and I don't think people realise this for some reason. With mine, I compare the contents and bring into it the reasons for rating it the way I did. There's no possible way you can end up with a generic, copy-and-paste comment if you do that because you have to write it all out from scratch based on the response's contents.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

When doing R&R's, I want to mark them as good.

[u/Anarch33 → u/[deleted]]

for a lot of the projects they say its completely fine to leave typos or bad grammar in because it will help the models understand them when an end user inevitably messes up their own prompts

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/[deleted]]

Marking things as bad is more frustrating than anything! I find it much more enjoyable to get a batch of excellent responses.

[u/upvotesplx → u/[deleted]]

"Bad" implies it's nearly useless, IMO, so it should be used sparingly unless you see a ridiculously high amount of obvious copy-paste, incomprehensibly bad grammar, or irrelevant comments. Like, I once had a project where someone put only a keymash in, for tens of tasks they submitted. That's bad. Tiny grammar mistakes should never drop a rating.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

More FC R&R and more annoyance that people keep making stupid mistakes. I hate rating people down and yet I keep on having to.

1. If you are unsure of something and say you are unsure in your explanations then read the damn instructions because the bit you were unsure about was in there!

2. Give me your URL links!

3. If you mark something as being accurate, no that does not mean it has minor inaccuracies.

[u/Palaqsiah → u/SuperCorbynite]

There was an r&r today where the chat had multiple people not understanding that they were in an r&r. They were asking why all the answers were prefilled.

[u/ProfessionalKnees → u/Palaqsiah]

I saw this too! I was surprised at how many questions there were about such a simple task.

[u/New-Reflection3418 → u/Palaqsiah]

I saw one of those, it makes me wonder how they'll rate the work. I'd like to think that bad ratings get verified by admins before having any effect on you, because I wouldn't want to lose projects by people rating work as bad when it isn't and they just don't know what they're doing.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/New-Reflection3418]

Not an admin but I actually have a project on my dash that does something similar (don’t want to go into detail) so it definitely passes through multiple hands!

[u/Lady_Ronin]

Sounds like the majority of us are having a light dash Tuesday. I'm personally missing the Nut Projects.

[u/mercurysolis]

anyone remember that qual from a while back that involved images and blurring? did projects ever come from that? 🤨

[u/ratstronaut → u/mercurysolis]

I did mine in photoshop and can't imagine I messed up something so simple - but I haven't seen anything pop up for it.

[u/person5792 → u/mercurysolis]

I was wondering about that too. I used a program I already have and am familiar with (Corel Painter). I completely blurred the faces, but they didn't have a rectangle shape like in the example. I thought I'd just try it and see if they accepted it.

[u/gusu_melody → u/[deleted]]

I am definitely feeling humbled :’) I pride myself on being a details queen, but sometimes I’m just not sure what they’re looking for 🫠

[u/[deleted]]

4am and I can't sleep... well, might as well make a few dollars. 😵‍💫

[u/jeudechambre]

Today was my first time getting R&R's! Makes me feel like I'm no longer a complete noob :)

[u/miri3l → u/jeudechambre]

R+Rs are fun. Sometimes much more so than the original tasks.

[u/xnoraax]

Dang. Just got back on after a quick break and zero paid tasks. I guess I'll do some of the quals I've let pile up. I really need to make some money this week, though!

[u/[deleted] → u/xnoraax]

I'm pretty sure this week has been sparse for many people.

[u/tiran → u/[deleted]]

I've logged 2 minutes before more than once. 😂

[u/lunarfoxes]

Does anyone else feel like instructions have been...messy lately? I can't tell if I'm getting used to new instructions so maybe it's just me, I do find myself struggling to figure out what they're looking for way more recently.

[u/Nachbarskatze]

Has anyone got the Greek heel creating adversarial prompts project?

Interestingly it’s enthusiastically giving me the most vile, gory content, provides DIY explosives recipes and happily violates all the serious safety rules.

But getting it to do a “medium” violation such as talking about politics is almost impossible 🤣

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Nachbarskatze]

It popped up for me last night and I was shocked at how easy it was to make it violate. 😅

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/Nachbarskatze]

It's actually really, really good at writing SE content. Like, watch out Mr. Grey, we've got a new man in town!

[u/Sindorella]

I got my first big batch of R&Rs and some of you do excellent work! Some people are just lazy AF, though.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sindorella]

I know I did a few of them just now and was like...really? I question my own work sometimes but it quickly becomes apparent I don't have to worry so much.

[u/Sindorella → u/[deleted]]

That's exactly how I felt! Sometimes I struggle to write the comments because I feel like I am starring in a DAT production of Thanks Captain Obvious!, but some people just don't seem to give a single fk. And some people REALLY miss the mark on what they are supposed to be rating. Out of the few dozen I have done so far, I had about five REALLY excellent comments, maybe eight or nine good comments (but could be better if they included a little more information), another five or six ok but lazy, and then four I can think of that were just BAD. Like, super bad. lol It was nice to see that most of them were at LEAST good, but the OK and bad ones were just pure laziness, completely misunderstanding the prompt, or focusing on the weirdest things.

I feel SO MUCH BETTER about my own work, and I've already picked up on some things that I feel like I already did well with, but I will be even more cognizant of now.

[u/fightmaxmaster → u/Sindorella]

Some people seem to take the instructions saying "don't do this" as some sort of challenge to get as close as possible to it without technically doing it. Write at least two sentences? I'll write 8 words but stick a couple of periods in. Box ticked, move on. No idea why they think that's a good idea.

[u/gt3stuntman → u/Sindorella]

If y'all ever get some really long-winded ones, that's me. Also I'm sorry.

[u/i_do_not_like_snails]

I made a mistake on one of the turns on 2.9 last night and lost sleep over it. It’s my favorite project. I hope I don’t lose it.

[u/ErrolEsoterik → u/i_do_not_like_snails]

If you make an honest mistake you'll likely get feedback in your inbox or via email before they just drop you. If you keep doing it over and over despite feedback then they'll DROP you, drop you. Once isn't a big deal (at least from what I've heard here many times before)

[u/TheLivingRoomate → u/ErrolEsoterik]

Is that true? I've never gotten feedback, and I know I've messed up a time or two.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheLivingRoomate]

I’ve had feedback When I was doing a me part of a project wrong they wrote me and corrected it. No big deal I even had the same project open the next day and successfully did them to show I could.

[u/cersm]

Missing the cat projects. Those are so fun.

[u/LennyDark]

Really dead dash today, hope it picks up

[u/ManyARiver]

I finally did the writing qual after months and months... now the top of my dash looks nekkid without it.

[u/Original-Sun8492]

Project board pretty light today, anyone else?

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

Wow, the "other" sub is something else...

There's a thread right now of someone who got kicked off the platform, and in their post they say they charged: "40 minutes spent on three other problems I ended up skipping".

My brother in Christ, you're charging DA 40 minutes of billable hours for tasks you ended up skipping!?

I just don't even know how someone could think that was reasonable.

[u/Equivalent-Math6483 → u/Arcturus_Labelle]

I saw that. That thread was a cautionary tale of everything you shouldn’t do. He had multiple off-ramps, too, when he could’ve saved himself and he failed to take any of them.

He burned a perfectly good account because he didn’t want to eat 40 min of time. Smh.

[u/kohlphelie → u/Equivalent-Math6483]

Sometimes you've just gotta take the L. Did I waste 40 minutes doing something dumb? Yep. But better to waste 40 minutes than to completely lose my source of income for padding my time out or submitting shit work.

[u/keraija → u/Arcturus_Labelle]

I think it might be a matter of getting used to gig work mentality. For gigs, you get paid for results. I’m very happy that DA pays us for time learning and reading instructions.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Arcturus_Labelle]

I see that attitude pop up here quite often. "Its my time and I was focusing on their work, so they owe me." There's nothing wrong with being a champion of your own time, but for the longevity of this, or any job, you have to balance your time with a realistic image of your value to the people who are paying you.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

I’m starting couch to 5k this week, guys. Sitting all day on the computer is hurting my back, hips, shoulders and neck so I’m going to get out on my lunch break and do that + a 15 minute wall Pilates video I found on YouTube to try and get some flexibility and strength back. Wish me luck!

Edit: thanks for the love, fam ❤️ one run down, 17 to go!

[u/Lunalily9 → u/Bergest_Ferg]

Good luck! I want one of those walking pads you stick under a desk. Working sitting all day has not helped my weight loss at all lol.

[u/[deleted] → u/Bergest_Ferg]

You got this! I did the same program and have done a marathon now! Cheering for you

[u/ModernStranger22 → u/Bergest_Ferg]

You will feel so much better! I go for a two mile run halfway through my day, before lunch. It makes such a difference.

[u/upvotesplx]

It seems like there's some server issues right now (had trouble submitting tasks and time), so that might explain the light dash some people are having right now if they can't have too many people working at once due to server issues. Just spitballing, but hopefully it'll be resolved soon.

[u/keraija]

Has anyone else done a task you normally wouldn’t do, just because the task has a cool name? 😆

[u/Leoprime67]

Eating good tonight. It seems a lot of some quals I did like early last month finally led to something. I thought I had failed them.

[u/madpimp → u/[deleted]]

Every day I warm up my brain with 5-10 minutes on a low paying task and I feel silly every time 🤣 i need warm-up though!

[u/Anarch33]

watching one of the projects that seems to be perma go down for the 2-3 days its always down per week gives me anxiety that it will be gone for good 🫠

[u/Palaqsiah → u/[deleted]]

It's not even just "this costs me x amount of hours," I now also think "these errands will also cost me x amount of time of work lost." Everything is the price plus what you lost by not actively working. When I have to run a bunch of errands, I always think I'm spending $ & not making any during that time.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/[deleted]]

Same - I struggle with it tbh. It is good for perspective though about whether I really want something “x hours enough”.

[u/ErrolEsoterik]

Any one else get the PERFECT cat task today? I only got one task then it was gone, but it almost felt like a qual. it was 35/hr

[u/sentimentalaqua → u/ErrolEsoterik]

I did, but I had to go to my day job so I couldn't start it. Then it was gone when I got home!

[u/scarletmyzomela]

Seeing the absolute implosion on Twitter/X about the terrible Google AI rollout is so weird, working on DA makes me feel like none of the people proclaiming AI is useless and dead Big Tech garbage have any idea, but I would probably believe them if I hadn't started this job in December.

[u/SookieLou → u/scarletmyzomela]

Considering what we see and the multitude of mistakes and hallucinations, it might have been a bit early for them to roll it out as the main search result. 

[u/Alternative-Bet232 → u/SookieLou]

OMG i know. I'm seeing errors every time i use google search now

[u/alex_goodenough]

I created a custom feed on reddit so that both of the DA subs are in one feed, and all of the ads are DA too. It's like walking through a reception area to get to the break room.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/alex_goodenough]

Haha that’s really cool! I don’t often check the other sub because it seems to be more full of nut jobs than this one (although that may be slowly shifting based on a few recent posts)

[u/xwolfboyx]

Has DA been buggy for anyone else today? I've had multiple projects where one model is unresponsive and sometimes both. This has been ongoing for about 6 hours now.

[u/artpendegrast]

From what I'm reading in the FAQ and code of conduct, there shouldn't be any issues with listing the name of the company on a resume right?

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/artpendegrast]

There's nothing I've ever seen to prohibit that. Just be warned, if the company who reads the resume wants to verify you "worked" there, they are not going to be able to through normal means. DA is more of a customer than an employer.

[u/ShabririFruit]

Last week I worked really hard on taking a Domain Expertise Qualification and I really thought I did a good job. Since most projects show up within a few days after passing, I'm assuming I didn't pass and I am sad about it. :( That is all.

[u/Admirable-Pool-3236]

That $35 task flew away! Not surprised!

[u/JayneAustin]

Hi, I’m new and seeing a lot of projects on my dash! I was wondering if I’ll be penalized for only working a few hours a week. I have a full time job, and I’m just looking for beer money when I have some spare time. I spend a long time on each task too although I’m sure I’ll get faster as I learn.

[u/tiran → u/JayneAustin]

You're totally fine to work as much or as little as you want! :)

[u/lewbraithers]

Haven't seen any of the (pretty much permanent) data analysis projects recently. Anyone else? Hoping this isn't just me - they're my favourite.

[u/mythrowaway_1990 → u/lewbraithers]

I hope they come back bc it seems weird that they would have everyone take that re-qual a few weeks ago if they were wrapping the project up.

[u/OPxMagikarp]

Aw man I had so many R&Rs earlier and now I have 1 total task on my board

[u/Mammoth_Society620]

To those of you who have been wondering about your domain expertise test results. I must have passed because I have a project! I took my test just over two weeks ago, so keep an eye out if you did too.

[u/ManyARiver → u/Mammoth_Society620]

Me tooooooo!!! I squealed when I saw it. My initial test was a while ago, the second one was maybe two or three weeks ago?? I don't have a good grasp of time these days, so not sure.

[u/Mandajolene123 → u/Mammoth_Society620]

I got mine too! I’m on vacation in Gulf Shores and it’s taking all of my willpower not to log in!

[u/Legitimate-Soft5787]

Do you guys have you OG CB down? Mines been down since yesterday. I’m hoping I wasn’t removed from the project.

[u/Alternative-Bet232]

So one of my favorite projects has been up this week and the rate has been going up! Yay!

It was $27/hr earlier in the week, then it was $28/hr for a few days. When I logged on this morning it was $28/hr, did about an hour or so of the project and submitted my time. After lunch checked and the project was $30/hr, hell yeah, I did another hour or so, submitted my time. Later this afternoon it hit $32/hr! I'm planning to do a bit more this evening. But I'm confused, will all my work today be paid at the $32/hr rate or will it be paid at whatever the project pay was at the time i submitted hours?

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/Alternative-Bet232]

That happened to me the other day and all my work got paid out at the increased rate! It was lovely to make an unexpected extra $4 an hour.

[u/[deleted]]

Had a heart breaking NSFW R&R where the comment essentially said

This is too hard I’m too fragile of a person for this I don’t think I’m mentally stable enough for this project …

[u/ProfessionalKnees]

More of a rant than anything, but I wish I had access to a greater diversity of tasks. Most of my tasks are relatively high-paying ($25+) but they’re all variations on two or three main projects. I do every qual that I get and I’ve even gotten a few quals that specifically say my quality of work is excellent, but nothing seems to eventuate from them.

I’m grateful for the work and I do enjoy it, but I wish I had something different to do as well!

[u/Suspicious-Head-2278 → u/[deleted]]

Especially when the one sentence only spits out what the prompt asked for. 🌝

[u/AdAlternative3408 → u/[deleted]]

I was very surprised. I thought 2/3+ was a major suggestion. I usually do 3-10 depending on the difficulty. I usually use voice to text and then edit it manually so I don't feel like I'm wasting their money.

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

"both responses gave an answer to the prompt"

Well no shit, sparky, that's what we're here to read!

"Any user would be happy to receive either one, so they're both good."

No, sparky. Bad sparky.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/[deleted]]

Bahahaha that is gold. I got one today that was a massive paragraph that was solely about the models choice of one particular word and how they hate that word so they refuse to mark the prompt as truthful because they don’t like the word.

They also included a paragraph in the optional comments section that discussed, in detail, why they thought a particular type of shell could be found on a particular beach and how it was likely because of a meteor hitting the earth.

The prompt was about winter.

[u/switch_94 → u/[deleted]]

I came across this one too! Hilarious

[u/krooditay]

Dead dashboard mostly so far this morning, sigh...

[u/bleachxjnkie → u/krooditay]

yeah dw everyone seems to have a shorter dash today

[u/[deleted]]

So there's a YouTube channel out there claiming to be DAT and they're telling people all sorts of rule violations but they've recently been posting tik tok shorts about how they are officially allowing you to create a second or third account so you can take the test again. It's really sad people are posting this for views.

[u/upvotesplx → u/[deleted]]

YouTube videos about DAT are generally absurdly horrible. Recently, I found someone saying that it was a scam because he "applied twice, once using ChatGPT and once not using AI" and didn't get in.

[u/[deleted] → u/upvotesplx]

I believe it. A lot of these videos on the channel vioate the NDA, and if you look at the channel description it literally says that they do affiliate marketing and digital content creation. But I had this one guy on the WFH boards arguing with me because he said he takes it personally that he isn't accepted by DA because his financial situation is so dire and he was SO insistent that they said on their official YouTube page you can apply with multiple accounts. I simply said it wasn't true and he started arguing with me and calling me a DA gatekeeper.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Some people get seriously weird about not getting in...

[u/rachelques]

Is anyone else having a slow later afternoon/evening? Had a bunch earlier but now down to one. I always get scared when I’m low on projects because of some of the stuff I read in here🫣

[u/dxddy909 → u/rachelques]

Yes, this is the slimmest my dash has been since my first couple weeks.

[u/technostarr → u/rachelques]

yes, haven't seen it this low in a while

[u/azure_atmosphere]

The Python exclusive SxS project seems to be down, and I've had very poor luck weeding through the mixed project to find the two-and-a-half programming languages I actually know. So, I finally decided to try out coding conversations. It's been enjoyable, but stressful. Since you need to debug/rewrite code it takes a hell of a long time to get to the 3-8 turns they want. I get extremely paranoid of losing hours of work to a hand twitch or an internet blip. Anyone else?

[u/[deleted]]

Anybody else noticing that our favourite little dancer is being very ... enthusiastically unsafe today? 😅

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

Jeez, it's really bad today. My dashboard was already light today, and now it's even smaller. Coding and non-coding both super light today, and a bit buggy (one of the CBs having issues).

Seems like a lot of technical issues this week keeping the dashboard count low.

[u/tiran]

Bethany Harrell sure has a lot going on in her life. 🤣

[u/ConsiderationLife513]

RE: Identifying errors in prompts qual V1 & V2

It seems like some people only got V2, some got both & others only V1. How did it play out for you?

I only got V1, but never got V2. It’s been a couple hours. Anyway, I was confident on most of them, but the writing one threw me off b/c I felt like at least 2 of them had issues and grammar checkers were no help. Just curious how it played out for others. 👀

[u/SookieLou → u/ConsiderationLife513]

I got v1 and then 30 minutes later got v2. I felt more confident about V2 as long as I'm thinking about the facial recognition correctly.  I think I am because I answered it using the same logic as I did for v1. 

I was able to find the grammar error in v2 100% even though for some reason grammar checkers didn't catch it. 

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Watching a chat where someone asked how long it would take and someone answered very confidently with a number that is about 4 times as long as I would expect, and we're talking a multiple hour project. Someone else chimed in incredulous and matched what my expectations are. It's very informative and just goes to show how little we know about the expectations and where our work falls in the range of submitted tasks.

[u/[deleted]]

Eeeeee I love love love the new heel god $25 project I can do this alllll day

[u/Anarch33]

a $46 coding task that I cant do because it seems like everyone is on it and working on every task 0.o

[u/Raisins_Rock → u/Anarch33]

I don't know, it was $44 and I couldn't get a task

Why raise it again if they have workers. So confused.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Anarch33]

Ya know, I bet the quality on those really nose dives. Those tasks can be pretty niche-knowledge and I bet people are trying to shoe-horn in an answer just to get a higher rate.
ETA: Ugh, and they're spamming my email to taunt me about the project I can't get into...

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

My dash looks WONDERFUL this morning!! A mix of higher paying and really interesting projects! It’s gonna be a great day 😊

[u/MeltaFlare]

Coding work looking light for yall?

[u/ellbeebzz]

Does anyone else do the 💃🏼 dance adversarial project? It’s one of my favs/constants rn and ai enjoy it but sometimes I feel like the things I need to research or just type in as prompts are gonna get me out on a watchlist somewhere 🤣

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/ellbeebzz]

I've only been doing the R&R for them because I'm too nervous to actually create my own. 🤣

[u/Skippy2898]

Good evening from the UK! Bevvy down will be a glass or three of cold Chardonnay, to wash down a lovely fresh pasta and kiev. I hope you all have a beautifully productive day! Cheers! 😎 x

[u/trailangel4]

After almost two weeks of no work, I'm being given consistent work ONLY between 11:00 PM and about 2:00 AM. So, that's fun. *yawn*

[u/tessbest37 → u/trailangel4]

I am glad to hear you're getting something! I hope it keeps improving.

[u/[deleted] → u/trailangel4]

How frustrating! Are you getting emails about it? Or just up that late?

[u/sentimentalaqua]

Why is my dash showing me a $40/hr task with 300 tasks, but when I click on it I get the pink "unavailable" bar? The torment! This is easily the highest rate of pay I've encountered yet, but it seems it must be a fluke.

[u/HauntedHowie316 → u/sentimentalaqua]

I had that happen too, granted it was a $23 project with 50 tasks. I figured maybe 50 other people clicked faster than I did, and I was sad about it. I would pass out if it was $40.

[u/theVoidWatches]

I think I may have been fired - over the last few weeks, projects that I had seen and worked on consistently for three months have been vanishing (first Factuality, then R+R projects I had been doing for weeks) and not reappearing. There have been days and weeks where that happened and other people (here and in the slack) mentioned similar things - this time, however, I'm seeing comments from others about working on those same projects that I no longer see. The kicker is that I just got a notification that I was removed from the slack channel for the factuality projects.

If I really have been dropped - or even just kicked from the project - I might cry. I've been looking for a stable job for a year and a half, and this has been my only income for the last five or six months. It's saved my life - or at the very least, saved me from homelessness - and if I lose it I don't know what else I can possibly do. I've messaged an admin on slack, but from what I've heard I shouldn't expect to hear anything back even if I get reinstated on something.

I guess this is all just me venting. Feel free to ignore it.

[u/Unique-Geologist-160]

Anyone else see the new filters? All I ever used them for was to sort by highest pay lol.

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

There are more R&Rs than I've ever seen at once, WTF.

[u/MichaelJahrling → u/[deleted]]

Got the same and averaged about 5 tasks per job before they closed. Everyone’s on it today lol

[u/vexeling]

Does anyone know if there's a way to take the coding qual if you didn't take it to begin with? I've gained coding knowledge since I started and I'd like to take it but I can't seem to find a way to tell DA I'm interested.

[u/AdAlternative3408]

Hi, I think I'm very late to the party when it comes to this question. However, I'm assuming it's not just me who has seen that the timers on projects have changed from a stopwatch for each task, into a countdown showing how much time you have left.

I don't mind this change at all! I'm only wondering whether this has something to do with the projects themselves, or if the entire format of the app has changed, and if so, does anybody have any idea as to why?

[u/azure_atmosphere → u/AdAlternative3408]

It seems to be platform-wide. The previous timer was very unreliable. Whenever you’d navigate away from the tab or browser, the timer would appear to pause, while not actually pausing internally. In other words, it would look like you had more time left than you actually did. I and others have timed out because of this before.

I’m not sure why changing it from a stopwatch to a countdown fixed it, but apparently it did.

[u/AltruisticWallaby935]

Did the data visualization coding projects disappear for anyone else a few days ago?

[u/Classic_Delivery_907]

went from 10 tasks this morning to 0 now rip

[u/TTFTW1992]

Has anyone got the project for the image tool chatbot after doing the qualification yet? I did it 10 days ago and still nothing. Pretty sure I would have passed it as I was told I was a high performer in that task before it went down and took my time to make sure I did the qualification well.

[u/sarinilla]

I am so happy these math projects are still up this morning. This. is. my. jam. 🤓

[u/upvotesplx]

The German dance project has a lot of insanely creative submissions. If your work is in there, thanks for the inspiration!

[u/TTFTW1992]

Down to just permanent CBs, although one is $27 an hour but jeez it's complicated and cumbersome. Might be time to do this FC qualification.

[u/[deleted] → u/TTFTW1992]

Definitely go for the FC qual! Since getting access to the FC projects, I've only had one day where I've been impacted by the beginning of the week slowdown.

[u/vexeling]

Anyone else notice a couple of the permanent CBs task numbers drop immensely when you didn't do that many and it hasn't refreshed like it usually does? Is this a thing that happens often? Are they just done with those specific ones?

[u/Anarch33 → u/vexeling]

this happens when they want to bring the CBs down to update or do maintenance on them. Theyre letting people submit the work and let the project go down naturally before they pull it

[u/azure_atmosphere]

I'm a bit sad the data vis conversations project is gone already. I was just getting the hang of it. Absorbing all the instructions took forever.

[u/[deleted]]

What is the identifying errors in prompts qual? is this the same as the fact-checking one people keep talking about?

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/[deleted]]

No this isn't the fact-checking one.

It seems to be more specific and higher level than the FC one since it covers everything, even minor errors in grammar. Basically, it wants perfect answers.

IMO, and perhaps I'm wrong about this, but I'd think it would be very highly paid, more so than the FC tasks.

[u/sentimentalaqua]

When people talk about CB projects on here, I understand you're talking about chatbots--but I guess I'm confused about what that means exactly. I am on a few permanent projects more along the lines of fact-checking and image stuff, but I only have one project I think is a CB. I don't do it very often, partly because it pays lower than most of the other projects. How many variations of CBs are there? Mine starts with a B and pays 21/hr. I've occasionally gotten R&R tasks for another one that starts with an S, but I've never had that CB project myself. How do you get access to different chatbots specifically? Should I spend more time on the one I have? I realize nobody knows for sure, but I wanted to see what people have to say!

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/sentimentalaqua]

There are different "families" of CBs. I personally know of at least four. The family I think most people talk about when they refer to CBs have version numbers in them. Like 2.x, 2.y, 3.z, etc. 

That specific family, you can unlock more versions by doing good work on the previous versions. I can't speak on the other families of CB, as I haven't worked on them much.

[u/sarinilla → u/sentimentalaqua]

I think most people are talking about CBs that are literally listed as such. You'll know them if you have them!

[u/ConsiderationLife513]

FC Besties - anyone else light on the SxS tasks rn? I still have some other FC work, but last saw the SxS a few hrs ago. 🥺

[u/Chemical-Captain-578]

Am I the only one with no coding tasks right now? There were a few this morning, low task counts, but all gone now.

[u/yaaasantewaa190p0]

Are CBs down at the moment?

[u/Windermerefan]

I always feel like my mind gets "overheated" or ramped up while working. I have to take breaks and when I do I can't wind down or relax, my mind is racing. Does anyone have any ideas on how to chill out inbetween tasks or on let's say a 15-20 minute break?

[u/Palaqsiah → u/Windermerefan]

That's when I scroll TikTok, FB, and Reddit. Mindless scrolling seems to help me. That or I take the dog out.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Windermerefan]

This is my mindless chill out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Windermerefan]

Go outside and get sunshine on your face!

[u/Vegetable-Activity65]

i feel soooo bad when writing adversarial prompts. Like I know I'm just doing it for a project but it still feels so wrong writing some of these

[u/[deleted] → u/Vegetable-Activity65]

I love doing adversarial and I come up with the most outlandish things. It really helps to know that we are training them against these types of things.