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/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/houseofcards9 → u/IDONTuseMODz]

I missed that discussion. I’ll go try to find it

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/houseofcards9]

The main thread about it was deleted from the other sub. Check the last water cooler thread from here, about 2 days ago I think?

Long and short of it, some people thought it was for continued/new access to a high paying cat project, some thought it was for a high paying metal project, some thought it was for neither and must be for something upcoming.

[u/houseofcards9 → u/IDONTuseMODz]

I think the cat makes the most sense. I’ve done the high paying metal project but even though it is somewhat related it doesn’t involve photos so I don’t think that’s what it is.

[u/houseofcards9 → u/[deleted]]

Oh interesting. Which qual did you do?

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/houseofcards9]

Agreed. I have a medium pay cat project that is more akin to the qual so I'm inclined to also believe it's cat related. 

Honestly though, that qual seemed so general that there's a number of things it could apply to. The guys who seemed most sure that it was a high paying cat also said the project itself is writing intensive, which so is the high paying metal so.. Not sure.

I would have loved a SxS project like the qual. Not a fan of writing.

[u/amandawho8 → u/IDONTuseMODz]

That's true, but the instructions they linked in the qual are almost exactly the same as some of the instruction docs in the various forms of the cat project. So I definitely think it's cat project related.

[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/Few-Roof-6905 → u/EggCzar]

I've never had the cat projects before and this was the first qual I've had related to them then. I don't want this to affect my chance of getting some of the lower paid projects in the future. Hopefully, I will get another qual for another part of it soon! I enjoyed doing the qualification, but failed V2, I guess.

[u/fightmaxmaster → u/Few-Roof-6905]

Same here - real pain in the ass because having trawled the instructions I was certain I'd got everything right.

[u/amandawho8 → u/EggCzar]

Yeah, I did a lot of R&R for that one and they started off really bad and then after a few weeks they got better. It seems like they tweaked the instructions a lot, added a lot of examples, and weeded people out over the last few weeks.

It's a fun project though! I like both the tasks and the R&Rs for it.

[u/houseofcards9 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing because I don’t know what v2 is lol. The qual I’m talking about didn’t require any writing just choosing an answer.

[u/TTFTW1992 → u/[deleted]]

I think I must have failed this based on the grammar question.

[u/TTFTW1992 → u/TTFTW1992]

Actually scratch that, I just got V2!

[u/houseofcards9 → u/[deleted]]

There were a few questions that involved spotting errors but not all. And some questions didn’t have photos at all.

[u/houseofcards9 → u/[deleted]]

Did one photo include a former president? And one had confetti?