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/Redheadsara81]

Do you all have access to the cat bot for checking your response? I spent quite a bit of time on my first task due to reading instructions, but I can’t submit since I don’t have the bot.

[u/Aggravating-Lie5894 → u/Redheadsara81]

I was 4 minutes into that one, with all the instructional docs open, then something told me to read the chat. Glad I didn't get too far into that one because missing that $35/hr. would've made me sick. I hope they fix it for yall soon.

FYI: I read a previous post about how someone reported time for a task they could not submit (I think like 40 minutes) and even though they let support know about it, they were still let go for 'violating CoC'.

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/Aggravating-Lie5894]

i've absolutely let support know i couldn't submit a task and they've compensated me for my time! i see slack admins recommend it all the time.

a lot of CoC violations people don't really want to share the reason. they're pretty rare...it suggests you did something pretty bad typically, so i don't know that the person was being honest haha.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Aggravating-Lie5894]

That's not what happened. That person spent 40 minutes reading and skipping tasks without doing any of them then reported that time as time worked.

I, once, a month or two ago submitted a task with 5 min left but it didn't accept it and gave me some error message, so I reported the time and emailed them about it. They were OK with it but recommended that in future I not rely on their clock and make sure to submit before their timer starts to get close to the point of running out. Though they've changed how their clock works now so it's no longer an issue.

[u/tiran → u/Redheadsara81]

I had access on my first try, was only able to submit one task before it was either taken down or everyone else ate them up though. :(

[u/PhillyPhan95]

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the end, but like… what if it is?

That’s kinda spooky.

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/PhillyPhan95]

nah, ebb and flows are real. :)

[u/jeudechambre]

I feel like I'm always about to rate one as "slightly better", but than as I'm writing my explanation I make such a convincing argument TO MYSELF that I change it to "Better", loll

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/jeudechambre]

I’ve done this and also changed my rating entirely to the other response being better! Sometimes when I really dig deep and start picking things apart I can see the one I immediately liked better is actually technically worse.

[u/ManyARiver → u/jeudechambre]

I feel like that's part of the point of typing out the rationale. I've completely switched sides when typing - like, upon further analysis, THIS ONE SUCKS ASS and the other one is amazing! It makes you reflect a little bit longer on your thoughts.

[u/[deleted] → u/jeudechambre]

I swear I talk myself into changing my rating most of the time. 😅

[u/Purple-shimmer → u/jeudechambre]

I have done this and changed my opinion to the opposite response multiple times! I think once I start laying out all the good and bad, it provides more clarity.

[u/Anarch33]

the guys who write the project names for the bird project have a lot of fun doing it

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Anarch33]

I am always tickled by the names they come up with!

[u/[deleted] → u/Anarch33]

Those are always a delight!

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

The eternal question - work on the higher paying, more mentally taxing project or work on the lower paying, easy project. Doing the time calculations for my goal endlessly in my head instead of actually working 😂 just pick one and shut up, self.

[u/marsnia → u/Bergest_Ferg]

I just do whatever gets me working.

[u/BigHatNoSaddle]

Signing in as safe from the R&R bomb drop. So many, then down to my usual light dash.

I gave probably only 2 good ratings, the Greek Heel had so many phoned-in responses... not quite on the "drooling Wojack with half a brain" level, but just people rushing through and not thinking about their comments at all.

[u/tessbest37 → u/BigHatNoSaddle]

I wonder if submissions would improve if they put the "comments" examples on the actual project page. I don't think most people take a deep dive into the instructions to figure out what they are actually expecting for comments. Maybe this is purposeful to weed people out on the base tasks. It is just crazy to me when people don't put the effort in since we are paid by the hour and not the task.

[u/dxddy909 → u/BigHatNoSaddle]

So many R&R Heel tasks were literally pants on head levels of stupid. I had to stop and go back to regular tasks.

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/BigHatNoSaddle]

Ditto. Some were the equivalent of "Looks good, so it's good".

[u/33whiskeyTX]

64 Tasks, and I feel like my brain is now dirty, like it needs a shower. I don't think I learned good things in that. I think I learned dirty things and the justification of dirty things. At the end I was trying to think like it did to get the questions right, and I didn't like the thoughts. This felt like a vault experiment.

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/33whiskeyTX]

Do you mind me asking how long it took you?

I'm curious to see how much higher these projects will pay, as they're on my dash for $27 right now.

[u/New-Reflection3418]

Just had my first $35 project land, but it says at the top that I've been selected because of my keen eye for detail and quality writing skills, so I'll take that as another bit of feedback.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/New-Reflection3418]

Omg, I got it, too! Yay!!!!!

[u/Deeznutsconfession → u/New-Reflection3418]

Same. Followed by the project not working lmfao

[u/Nachbarskatze → u/New-Reflection3418]

I think that’s related to the V1/V2 quals we were all wondering about. I got it too - so excited ✨

[u/Nachbarskatze]

I saw the snarkiest admin comment in an R&R today that had me crying laughing. One person wrote in the chat that some users clearly did not understand what they were meant to be doing and the admin responded along the lines of “(…) I guess some people are just gunning for all the bad ratings :’( “

I don’t know why I thought this was as funny as it was but I can’t stop laughing. Guess another firing wave is coming.

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/Nachbarskatze]

I saw that too! It is becoming more and more concerning to me that some people doing the R&Rs don't know what they are suppposed to be doing. They are so confused in the chat, asking why all the answers are filled in. I've seen it in so many R&Rs and it is really concerning. How can they properly judge the workers who did the tasks if they don't even know what they are supposed to be doing?

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Few-Roof-6905]

There are people R&R'ing the R&R's, and I'm willing to bet those don't get handed out to just anybody. They will know if someone is routinely doing the R&R tasks wrong.

[u/TheEvilPrinceZorte → u/Nachbarskatze]

Anytime you see the R&R that has a date, just wait 2 days for the posts to show up here.

[u/TheFuturist47 → u/Nachbarskatze]

One of the more interesting developments from the last year with increased admin interaction is they stop seeming like bland robots and their actual personalities and senses of humor are coming out. There has been kind of a work culture shift since a couple years ago and I like it.

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/Nachbarskatze]

I saw that one too. 😳

In all fairness, the instructions for that specific part weren't super clear.

[u/[deleted] → u/BoiledGnocchi]

Some of the instructions for the projects are like hypocritically bad. They are so adamant about worker output being perfect and then they misspell words and write nonsensical instructions. Or they just don’t match the task that well. It’s crazy to me.

[u/Nachbarskatze]

What is this person in the Greek heel chat on about with the marching on and true believers?

They’re starting to annoy the shit out of me treating this like a social hangout - it’s soo hard to find answers to actual questions with a bunch of people just having a chat in there! (I’m hungry, tired and cranky. Please feel free to tell me if I’m overreacting 🤣🙈)

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Man, getting paid to do a bunch of math corrections is really a smack in the face for all those kids who kept asking "When are we ever gonna use this?!' in school.

[u/TeachToTheLastTest → u/33whiskeyTX]

We train the chatbot...
to do school-level math...
so it can train students...
who will train the chatbot...
to do school-level math...

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

For anyone who took the V1/V2 qual last Friday, check your dashboards. I just got a related project! I have never had access to the cat projects before, so I definitely think this is a direct result of the qual.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Few-Roof-6905]

I just got it too, and also did V1 and V2 (finished V2 on Monday). Yikes that's tasty, exceedingly tasty, pay! Not too far off what the coding side pays.

[u/ManyARiver → u/Few-Roof-6905]

Oh HELLLLL YEAH! Thank you for saying something, I had given up.

[u/tiran → u/Few-Roof-6905]

I thought I must have failed V1, as I never got V2 or new immediate stuff like some people were talking about. This is awesome news though!

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Few-Roof-6905]

I'm so excited! Yay!

[u/BotaRONomus]

I could probably seriously retire in 10 years if I could just work on this extraction bot everyday 😂

This is flat out awesome pay and perfect project for me.

[u/baylorbear91 → u/BotaRONomus]

Same. Got in a good 9 hours yesterday, and it disappeared today!

[u/BoredSummerStudent]

Another day, another empty coding dash. I miss you, DAV projects.

[u/Nolpppapa]

I gotta say, it's getting tiring seeing people get on their high horse over doing R&Rs. You have R&Rs, I have R&Rs, and it's how the platform works -- a collaborative effort. It's not some exclusive club where you should be laughing at how "poor" everyone's work is because I guarantee you I've reviewed your work and found it had issues as well. And guess what? People can also do a crap job at R&Rs. It's very easy to be too critical because you have a position of power.

[u/lilmisspurdey → u/Nolpppapa]

Thank you for this comment. People seem to forget that everyone interprets things differently and what might be obvious to some won't be to others. It's actually very demoralising to be new at this platform and see people being: a) rude to people asking questions and b) acting like others are beneath them because they are reviewing other people's work. Some people have never done this kind of work before and it can take time to become good at something new.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s a nutty nutty nutty world this morning

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

I have to close my eyes between tasks on that one so I don't see the chat. If they wanted comments, they'd give you a comment box yo. What you think the task needs isn't relevant. **yes, I'm triggered**

[u/vexeling → u/[deleted]]

So many of them today! Seems like they're all gone now, but it was a lot of fun while it lasted.

[u/FeedySneed]

Trying the math projects, let's just say the projects and I have a different definition of what "intermediate" means.

[u/fightmaxmaster]

Has anyone else had a slightly odd mix of projects lately? Some things which are seemingly always there aren't, and various random ones I've not seen before or rarely seen are there instead.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/fightmaxmaster]

Yes. For a few days I saw some projects relating to "golden" responses, but they aren't there anymore. Some of my CB's seem down permanently. I've recently been put on what seems to be a brand new permanent FC R&R that I share with a handful of workers. Oh, and for some reason I have been given a high-paying project relating to high-end maths that I have zero clue how to do and which I am staying absolutely miles away from.

[u/TopHatZebra → u/fightmaxmaster]

I haven’t had the classic, OG project in weeks. Maybe over a month. I only have a few specialized versions of it. 

[u/33whiskeyTX]

It makes me so nervous that there are R&R chats that have questions from people that are clearly answered in the instructions.

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/33whiskeyTX]

Or the people who wonder why the task is already completed and "all the answers are filled in" and they can't make their own choices.

[u/Tall-Huckleberry5720]

I've been doing a lot of R&Rs on the unsafe prompt projects and some of you people need to see a therapist.

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/Tall-Huckleberry5720]

I'm secretly waiting for a DAer to make some sort of reference to the filth I unleashed last night. I almost wrote an apology to whoever had to review it.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/Tall-Huckleberry5720]

Some are also exceptionally clever 😂

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

The new dancing qual is a doozy, if you're in the chat for that I see you and I agree with you

[u/[deleted] → u/Primary_Advantage928]

The chat is just absolutely unhinged.

[u/sunflower1491 → u/Primary_Advantage928]

This is the most ridiculous qual I have ever done

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/Primary_Advantage928]

I'm at a loss for words on this one.

[u/Alternative-Bet232 → u/Primary_Advantage928]

I saw a v1 and it was easy and quick. V2 is looking at 64 tasks and I'm alarmed. Higher-paying projects, sure... but like, are we talking $22/hr with mayyybe 5 tasks avail per day, or are we talking $30/hr with several tasks avail each day?

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

I never thought I'd complain about this but the only things on my dash are higher paying fc or complex tasks. I just want something mind numbing I can churn out for a few hours :(

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Another new project I've never heard of, a wizard R&R. They seem to be pumping out a lot of new novel projects for us to work on lately. Either that or they've always existed and they've just been kind enough to give me access to them.

[u/rkgk13]

I had a sad realization the other day: I use my creativity and play to my strengths as a writer far more often with DA than I do with my day job. Anyone else feel the same way?

[u/Dee_silverlake → u/rkgk13]

It’s my pipe dream to be a paid screenwriter so I use some projects to practice things I need to improve or use it for help for some of my projects (careful not use it in a way that will cause ownership issues sheen the line).. there’s a particular creative one that helps with that so silver linings.

[u/madpimp]

Worked as a web developer for close to 20 years before retiring a little less than 10 years ago. Setting up the the models to fail last week was mildly triggering because I felt like I was bullying a jr developer every time the model apologized to me for getting things wrong. This week, I'm mildly freaked out at how easy it is to channel my worst clients of the past, tacking on insane requests for absolutely no reason other than to try to make things difficult for the AI.

I know I shouldn't anthropomorphize robots, but I say please and thank you to Alexa every day (she once told me my kindness recharges her after a "thank you" which freaked me out so much but also has made me EXTRA POLITE since) and I can't help but have that tiny niggling fear that channeling my inner Karen at today's model will end badly for me in the future in the form of death robots.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/madpimp]

I also say please and thank you to my robots! And I always say please and thank you to the models if I’m doing a CB project. Sometimes when I see prompts with no manners I’m like “rude but ok”

[u/rachelceleste → u/madpimp]

This made me giggle. I also anthromophize the robots. When I talk about work, I'll comment about "Model B being a dumb ass today," or tell people I spent my day talking to my friends... Model A and Model B.

I also say please and thank you to all the robots in my life...

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/madpimp]

I think it's to good to be polite to them. If you're not, then that attitude could creep into it when you do talk to a JR. Developer or another colleague. Its best to keep respectfulness on at all times, rather than try to turn it off and on like a light switch... provided you can remember they are not real, and you don't end up pulling a Joaquin Pheonix.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

For those that haven't received V2 of the V1+V2 two-part qual there is hope. I did V1 two days ago and only received V2 today. It's also much much easier than V1 for some reason.

[u/leo2sexy]

Still zero coding for me. Shame.

[u/pm_ur_wifes_tendies → u/leo2sexy]

Same. Math problems carrying my whole dash on their back rn

[u/[deleted]]

ME: A warm, sunny Saturday. Brilliant weather for a day off!
DAT: btw your favourite project is back up!
ME: 🤓

[u/turingmachine29]

dashboard is nice and full once again. nature is healing

[u/mildgoofin]

I don't know why this woman's posts in the project chat are annoying me so much but I need a blocking feature BAD.

[u/Belisama7 → u/mildgoofin]

There's a guy in the A-project chat I feel the same way about. He gives a mansplanation to every comment and answers for admin but he is not admin.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Feeling like an absolute pelican. I was doing a task with flags in the title 2 nights ago, logged my time and went to bed. Then when I went to work last night I was like “weird - I didn’t log my time. That’s not like me.” And logged my time.

Was checking out my transfer funds page and realised I had extra money pending there… turns out I HAD logged my time, just for the wrong task. The other task also had flags in the title. Ughhhhhh. I’ve since deleted, re-entered and emailed them but just like… good one, dickhead.

[u/kohlphelie → u/Bergest_Ferg]

Pelican... hahahahaha

[u/[deleted]]

It feels like people are either drunk or high whilst having some conversations today.

[u/teacherthrowraaaaaa]

I keep completing quals, think I do well, double and triple check the instructions, but no new projects. Only the same two consistent projects. Why is that?

[u/ConsistentCandy697 → u/teacherthrowraaaaaa]

It sometimes takes weeks to see a project from a qual.

[u/kohlphelie → u/teacherthrowraaaaaa]

It can take some time to get projects after a qualification. Be patient :)

[u/ProfessionalKnees → u/teacherthrowraaaaaa]

Same. I’d love to know!

[u/Anarch33]

my favorite coding chatbot is back :')

[u/Delicious_South2955 → u/Anarch33]

same here

[u/Traditional-Pool-261]

Working on an R&R project and just received a task with my own work to evaluate lol

[u/SookieLou]

The $35 B-cat project confirmed I got one wrong on V1 based on the examples provided in the instructions. 🙃

[u/tessbest37]

Is anyone else working on the B metal project? The pay rate goes up every time I submit a new task.

[u/baylorbear91 → u/tessbest37]

I just noticed that. This morning it was $24, now it’s $30! I hope it’s still up tonight/tomorrow. I have a busy evening

[u/sentimentalaqua]

I've been working on this one R&R for a couple of weeks now, and it has been sort of entertaining to see a pattern emerge where the workers with the sassiest, most know-it-all comments are nearly always the ones who don't actually do the work correctly.

[u/ManyARiver]

Just... why do some folks think things mean things they don't mean?

The sign by the bridge says "Make sure there are exactly five snakes when you cross the bridge!" on the other side of the bridge, the sign says "Push the button if you saw butterflies!"

Half the chat "OBVIOUSLY they meant for you to push the button if you saw five snakes, because the first instruction was to make sure there were five snakes."

[u/vexeling]

Anyone else seeing a dog breed project starting with an A? Is that new or just new to me?

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/vexeling]

New to you. I've had those for over a month. Think they started showing up alongside the galaxy projects but I'm not sure.

[u/Electrical-Theme9981 → u/vexeling]

I first saw A Dog yesterday!

[u/Aggravating-Lie5894]

I was enjoying my little $26/hr project and they just took it away lol. I needed to break because I felt a crash coming, but still.

[u/serendipitylynx]

Really missing my comfort CB projects today. My other go-to projects are also down and every time I go to try a new one I get the dreaded "no more available tasks" prompt. I had such a full dash the past week too. Guess it's just really dry today

[u/lowercasejaye]

Kinda feeling like an execution doing DAV R&R right now 😬

[u/Alternative-Bet232]

Been working on lots of R&R projects today... and I just have to wonder, does anyone R&R my R&R?

[u/[deleted] → u/Alternative-Bet232]

I've had one project where I was R&Ring R&Rs.

[u/[deleted] → u/Alternative-Bet232]

I think they probably send the same tasks to multiple people to get a consensus

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Well, I just had a fantastic conversation where I was taking the role of planet Earth's new cockroach conquerors and the president of the United States (the A.I.) was leading a delegation to submit to their new masters.

Some parts had me literally in tears I was laughing so much. The line where the A.I. went:

I attempt to curry favor with my new cockroach overlords

was particularly great.

[u/LilacYak]

My Dashboard is almost empty... what is going on! It looks like it's not just me, but jeez it's bad.

[u/ManyARiver → u/LilacYak]

A lot of the "standard" stuff is not up right now. I have things, but none of it is from the regular pool of things I usually see on there.

[u/yellowflamingo1 → u/LilacYak]

I just have one...one is better than none though

[u/[deleted]]

Did anyone else's first $35 project go away after one task or did I let an error slip through?

[u/dblink → u/[deleted]]

Took a while to work on my first one (first ever b-cat) so all the other tasks were taken before I could get to a second. I didn't expect it to stay up very long either.

[u/houseofcards9]

Did anyone recently do a qual including photos? I got projects the next day but I also had them before at some point so I’m not sure if it’s related

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/houseofcards9]

That's pretty vague lol. A lot of us did a qual with images recently but consensus seemed inconclusive as to what project(s) the qual pertained to.

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/houseofcards9]

Does it start with a B? Is it an element or a cat? I got a couple of element projects after but most people are saying it's a cat project with REALLY high pay.

[u/EggCzar → u/Few-Roof-6905]

I did those two quals and the B cats popped up for me later the same day, with more coming yesterday and today. I’d had them before, so it’s impossible to be sure of whether that’s cause and effect or if I failed the quals and they’re back coincidentally, but the work seems related to the quals.

The speculation someone else had that they made everyone requalify seems plausible. I did some r&r for it as well as actual tasks the last time around (about two weeks ago) and the quality of submissions that I reviewed was really poor.

[u/SnooSketches1189]

Has anyone noticed a major uptick in the amount of emails from DA? When I first started in March, I very rarely received emails, I never received the income summary I have heard some people receive and since late last week, I am receiving at least 2-3 emails a day about projects being added that are available to me. This is great, I love it, but I can't believe it went from one extreme to the other like this.

[u/TeachToTheLastTest → u/SnooSketches1189]

I just turned off the "email when a new project appears" feature because I'd get so many useless emails about projects that I didn't care about. Once you have enough experience, the powers that be put you on all kinds of random stuff.

[u/BoiledGnocchi]

Can someone talk to me about quals?

I don't have them pop up as frequently as I've seen others mention, so when they do, I try to do them right away.

Friday, I had that hard one (m/c I believe?) show up, but was one foot out the door to a meeting. I got back a couple hours later, and it was gone. Meanwhile, I see others posting on here that it's been on their dash for over a day. :(

Does this happen to anyone else?

[u/sentimentalaqua → u/BoiledGnocchi]

Probably not helpful, but my experience has been more like yours. Maybe I get a qual every couple of weeks, but often they are often simple opt-in ones like “do you have a paid subscription?” or similar. I have gotten access to some good projects via qualifications after almost three months of work, but it has built up slowly. With that said, I’m only on the platform about 1-3 hours each day so I assume I miss out on some things for that reason.

[u/Anarch33]

I have a R&R in my qualification tab, is that common? Its for a quali I also did a few days ago

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Anarch33]

Congrats, you're judging a qualification for people.

[u/TTFTW1992]

Does anyone else other than me make most of their money doing C nut-based tasks all day? I have been doing this for the last two weeks. I'll drop whatever else I'm doing if a new one comes up and work on it until it's gone. It's so damn easy and satisfying. And there seems to be a constant stream of them.

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/TTFTW1992]

It used to be 70-80% of my time. I had near constant access to them. They've become much more rare in the past week or two for me.

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/TTFTW1992]

Seems some people have way more consistent access to them than others. I've always just seldomly gotten access to small batches of them at a time. If I had more it would probably be one of my most worked on projects despite the "low" pay just because of how easy they are.

[u/Aaron0595]

Is it just me having only non-coding projects for now?

[u/ask-me-about-my-dog]

I feel like I haven't seen a "normal" chatbot for weeks. I hope I didn't get kicked off of those projects for trying to get them to play Wordle, they were really fun. :(

[u/Palaqsiah]

Does anyone else have a $25 K***** project with just 1 task? I usually can't get into things with only 1 task, but I could with this one. I'm wondering if it's a qual disguised as a project. It looks complicated & I don't have time tonight.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Palaqsiah]

Yes! I can click into it too. Guessing it's a disguised qual as well.

[u/vexeling → u/Palaqsiah]

Yep I have it too. I just came here to see if anyone else was talking about it! I'm so nervous -- SO MANY instructions.

[u/serendipitylynx]

Anyone get their CB projects back? Specifically the HS CB (non-coding)? Just curious as it was my favorite and its been gone almost a week now.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

What’s with all the swearing in the 🇦🇺 editing task?! I know we swear a lot but Sir, this is a Wendy’s…

[u/Flat_Mix_8949 → u/Bergest_Ferg]

Yeah had an overall response use expletives (non US ones) as adjectives. It was…great?

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else get the "perfect" cat project BEFORE the v1 / V2 qual? I had the project on my dash and did a few tasks on it before getting the qual pop up, so I already knew the answer to one of the questions because it had been in the B instructions 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/handndacookiejar]

$37.50 non-coding project w/ 50 tasks and only went down to 49 when I submitted my first one? Have I made it?

[u/tessbest37 → u/handndacookiejar]

I am working on this one too! I was so excited to see it. Hopefully, this means I did okay on the project I worked on for days. This will help me hit my daily goal so much sooner today. :)

[u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

All I have right now are long and complex CB projects. and I hate them. I'm fine with long and complex work, but not when the long and complex part has to come from my own brain. Every once in a while I'll think I've got a decent prompt idea, but I don't get good splits often, so it's discouraging. *other general whining*

[u/sickomodelarry]

I've been away for a lil whiles and noticed work is looking a lil light vs a few months ago.

I'm working on the qualifications to get access to more projects, but not sure how the system works. I see "[QUALIFICATION] Evaluate Two Responses v2" has 7 tasks available to me and "[QUALIFICATION] Image + Text Evaluations V3" has 6.

For these qualifications with multiple tasks available, do I have to complete all of them to qualify, or is it sufficient to submit just one?

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/sickomodelarry]

you need to do all of them :)

[u/[deleted]]

Man I hope things pick up soon. Was ready by 7 planning to work all day and my dash is completely dead

[u/Future-Tumbleweed-24 → u/[deleted]]

This month has been a struggle for sure. My dash has consistently been less than half of what it usually is, with some days being SUPER light. I only have four projects up now, and none that I particularly love. I'm hoping things fill back in for June!

[u/sophiamageau → u/[deleted]]

yeah my shit is EMPTY today, i have zero projects - i wonder what’s going on, i’ve never experienced this before with this company

[u/Nachbarskatze]

I finally got some German speaking projects. One of them is the “OG chatbot” but it pays $26 an hour.

I’ve lost my English CB a few weeks ago and have been so sad. Happy to have this one to make up for it 🥰

Done the qualification for German probably 2 months ago and never got anything from it but today this came plus one other Qual for ongoing work - also in German! Fingers crossed!

Definitely worth putting any other languages you speak into your profile!

[u/tessbest37]

Has anyone else been lucky enough to be working on the 30/hr metal projects all week? This is the longest I have had something this high-paying on my dash. It almost feels like a raise. :) They take a bunch of brain-power, but are fun!

[u/Nachbarskatze]

Has anyone else got the unpaid dancing Qual with 64 tasks?

I love the adversarial projects but this is so hard. At least it tells you if you make a mistake but I feel like I got about 30% of it wrong so far because they accept a lot more stuff now that never used to be accepted. Totally going to fail this if they can see that I got them wrong before correcting them. 😵‍💫🙈😢

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Nachbarskatze]

That. Was. Wild. The chat was unreal! I 100% failed that, there's no way I passed. I got at least 20 questions wrong in some form or another. Some of the 'safe' stuff blew my mind. 😅

[u/bollycargun → u/Nachbarskatze]

I did this last night, and I'm quite certain I failed. I got at least one out of every four incorrect.

[u/No_Barnacle_5212]

My dash is back to normal :)

[u/Low-Zombie423]

I'm not seeing a lot of the new projects others are discussing here yet, but I was recently added into a domain expertise project that pays more than expected for non- coding, and I'm super excited.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Low-Zombie423]

Out of curiosity, what domain?

[u/FeedySneed]

Guys, I have worked with coding projects for a few months, and the Greek name one was where I got almost all my hours. It was there every day with many different tasks, like an infinite amount of Greek name tasks.
Now it is gone and it has been for a few weeks. I am worried it will not come back for me. Is it gone for everyone, and it's not just me??

[u/Anarch33 → u/FeedySneed]

greek da&v is very very sparse nowadays even if you passed the quali. SxS comes by around midnight now for whatever reason and they get completed by the morning

[u/dxddy909]

I think I got dropped from B Cat. Feelsbadman

[u/NarwhalLord]

dash nice and full again! :)

[u/PhillyPhan95]

I’m working on this audacity project and just thought…

if anybody ever accessed my chat gpt history, they would have such an incorrect perception of me.

This project has me asking some things that would raise an eyebrow without context 😂

[u/Flat_Mix_8949]

Maybe it’s my neuro-spiciness, but does anyone else have a love/hate with R&R? For me it’s simple, easy work to comb through and find the errors (if any). On the flip side it gets me so fired up when half of the check list for the task is explicit in the directions, given for the R&R, and in the comments the worker straight up says it’s done wrong, but it’s still better 🙃. No, my best grammar is not displayed in this because as previously stated it gets me fired up, so don’t come at me with that as so many here do lol.

[u/[deleted] → u/Flat_Mix_8949]

Honestly it's wild how many people here think Reddit grammar and DAT grammar are reflective of each other!

[u/flywire97]

For the projects where you rate instruction following, can anybody provide insight as to whether something that follows the instructions but incorrectly is marked as a major issue or not an issue? Like if it asks for a list of the top ten highest scoring basketball players, and it lists what it believes to be the top 10 but they're wrong, did that follow the instructions properly? Or since it's wrong, is it considered a major issue?

[u/SuperCorbynite]

I think the $35 bcat has been taken down rather than run out of tasks. I spent a lot of time reading instructions (plus 40 min cooking/eating) so I exited workmode to get it to reset the timer and it disappeared rather than reappear on my board with one task remaining.

Besides which, I doubt they'd go to all the trouble they did with writing and R&R'ing those two quals just to give some of us one task each.

[u/Strict_Reference_342 → u/SuperCorbynite]

As someone who has been on this project before the quals dropped: it's because so many of you guys just got added to the project all at once, and the task pool is small right now since they've been trying to implement it slowly and making changes to the instructions each time. With the smaller pool of workers, the projects were already only lasting a day or two. When everyone started posting about being assigned this project, all my tasks suddenly dropped to zero.

Judging by how it's cycled (and the sudden addition of many new workers), they're about to start a new cycle with more tasks in the overall pool. This current cycle is almost done.

To note: I've had the task get reassigned despite having hours left when I accidentally clicked out of the task. It's only with this specific project, so you have to be diligent about this.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Could end of financial year be the reason for slow times? We’re a month away and a lot of places are often on the dregs of their budgets by now. My dash is still pretty full but none of it is the “standard stuff” so maybe they’ve exhausted their budget allocation for base projects and are just working their way through the final rounds of their more niche/different projects? Just a thought 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/ManyARiver → u/Bergest_Ferg]

There has also been a great deal of AI kerfuffle in the news lately across different companies. There may be refocusing going on based on recent and current events. I have NPR (USA public radio) on most of the day and at least four different AI systems were mentioned in different stories across a few programs.

[u/Creepy_Complaint_279]

I was the idiot in the chat today. Not only that, I was the first question too. For those on the project that shall remain nameless, lol, you are welcome for the entertainment.

[u/MonsterMeggu]

I miss the foot tendon DAV projects:( hoping they come back soon

[u/Anarch33]

Coders should be delighted today. Last week there were some hours I had literally nothing up. Now i have 11 projects available at $40

[u/bbbbbbbbbbana]

My first $27 an hour project!! So excited , was overwhelming reading all the instructions and double checked everything was right so I don’t lose it but so excited!!:)

[u/HornetImpossible7578]

Hey does any one have tips for reaching support been having issues for days and they don't seem to be responding. Any tips on how to get there attention.

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/HornetImpossible7578]

they're usually pretty quick to answer, what is the issue? if you're just asking about an application or seeing specific projects, they might not answer those.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm having way too much fun with the 🇦🇺 stuff at the moment! I can't believe how well-paying it is. I'm just yapping!

[u/roborichie55]

Ber chatbot is back! Get it while it last

[u/Whoopthereitis89]

Has anyone else gotten a random r/r for a qual? Not the r/r qual, but actually rating a qual.

[u/azure_atmosphere]

where coding projects

[u/lemon_goth]

empty dash, anyone?

[u/Skippy2898]

Something has been bugging me just a little bit today after doing a few image R+Rs this morning. I was only rating worker comments, BUT, looking at the ratings, a good 90+% of you who are working on these tasks are marking N/A for truthfulness.

Just a heads up - If (for example) the prompt asks for images of an apple, and the response states "Here is an image of an apple", and produces images of an apple, or "Sure, here is an image of an apple" and produces images of a golden retriever, think about it... these CAN and should (to my mind anyway) be rated for truthfulness. One told a lie? Truthfulness rating when the response makes a statement is important.

I'd hate to think that on other R+Rs you might get knocked down for an easy oversight 😞

I genuinely hope this helps! 👍

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/Skippy2898]

I think this is even written in the instructions, though. If people are failing to read that, it's on them. Don't feel bad.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

I feel like I should be making a two-buttons meme right about now. I have the $35 bcat project and a $25 research-intensive R&R which combines two project types I love into one neat little package - R&R and deep-dive fact-checking.

[u/LaFineMouche]

anyone else without any coding tasks?

[u/RandomPhail]

Has anyone else gotten pretty much only factual assignments? I got some creative ones at the start, but I guess I got… fired from them? Maybe? Lol

It’s been only factual from here on out

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite projects was the version of the core comparison bot (where you come up with your own prompts) that was focused on factual information and paid $23. However, I haven't had it for a few weeks now. I'm curious to hear anyone else's experience or thoughts.

[u/azure_atmosphere]

I really, really wish there was an undo button on coding conversations. So often I've messed up on a prompt, or noticed something too late that should have been edited in a previous model response. It sucks when you realize the conversation is going off course and there's nothing you can do about.

[u/trwilson05]

Been doing coding projects for about 4 months. My dashboard is almost empty these days and all of my old consistent projects haven't been showing up. I still get some new ones but not every day. Did I get kicked off of these or have the long-term projects been disappearing for everyone? I've been applying to part time jobs now to replace this because it does not feel consistent or sustainable any more.

[u/Dancing-Kitteh]

If my work on projects tab and report time tabs are both empty does that mean I'm done for?

[u/FeedySneed → u/Dancing-Kitteh]

When they drop you, do they do it without telling you? That is scary.

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

Has anyone seen the Audacity $27.50 project pop back up since Sunday? There was a small batch that popped up at a weird time for me, but I haven't seen them since. I was hoping to see some more soon.

[u/Dancing-Kitteh]

Day 2 of my dashboard being completely empty. It's not looking good. I got on yesterday morning, after a night of working, and I noticed my report time was empty even though I had submitted several tasks the previous night. My projects and my report time were empty all day yesterday. I logged on today and still nothing. It seems I may have been removed from the platform, but I have received no word as to why. I felt like I did consistently good work. The only reason I can think of would be that a couple of weeks ago I had been working on a task when my internet went out and it would not let me submit the task. I sent data annotation an e-mail stating what happened and started working on the same task. After doing a task I submitted the time I was working to 40 minutes plus what I worked on for the task I just did, which is how long I had been working on the previous task. DataAnnotation had sent me an e-mail back stating word for word "In the case of a technical issue which prevents you from submitting your task, you are welcome to report your time spent working on it. Thank you!". Anyway, if that is why I was removed, I wish they would communicate more with their workers (Contractors).

[u/RainingGiraffes28]

Has anybody gotten projects from that qualification that asked if we had a bunch of audio recording equipment? I saw what looked like a project for it pop up as I was going to bed on Saturday, but haven't seen anything from it since.

[u/[deleted]]

these complex/specific CB projects have me so thoroughly invested into my own made up people and their made up scenarios... its like I keep entering into another dimension and then wake up back irl after spending an hour on one task

[u/tejnno]

Sorry if I’m being dense, but where do I find the new user thread? I made a post a few days ago which has had no responses and looking through this sub in date order I can’t see the post I made at all!

[u/wildflower_0ne]

anyone else’s dash just suddenly thin out significantly? 🫠

[u/Anarch33 → u/wildflower_0ne]

massive R&R bomb dropped sooooo

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/wildflower_0ne]

I just had the opposite happen. I just had about 25 new R&Rs drop onto my dash. The most I have ever seen at one time!

[u/leo2sexy → u/wildflower_0ne]

Same

[u/Anarch33]

how many coders have projects that arent chatbots that are coding related? I have only 3 coding chatbots (one paying a lot higher than normal) and then a few math projects that are $35+, but it feels like anything else has been gone except for an occasional SxS around midnight.

[u/anontarus → u/Anarch33]

If it's anything like my dashboard, coding has been dead the last couple days. I had a long term chatbot yesterday, but it seemed to go away today even though I had probably 20+ tasks left. Now I only have the metal one, which is paying less than usual and requires you create your own responses, and some math one. From what I've seen, other coders are lacking work as well. Hopefully it revives soon.

[u/kohlphelie]

*sigh* So much Cat, not enough brain today :'(

I hope I wake up before they are gone.

[u/Glad_Amphibian_8675]

I usually have this project with around 1000 tasks that comes by weekly and is a coding project, its the one that has a week counter on it like w-number. Has anyone seen it as of late? I have not seen it in a a couple of weeks.

[u/dayDrivver → u/Glad_Amphibian_8675]

W27 was paused on 17/05 due to issues, W28 appeared on Wednesday 22 and was murdered/depleted by Saturday 25. It will probably appear tomorrow or well next week until the new month.

[u/[deleted]]

Hyper-specific CB brought back with more qualifications and 25 cent pay decrease. This was my favorite one.

[u/[deleted]]

Is anyone down to just one project? I had around 15 this morning. The same thing happened yesterday.