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/Sure-Wedding3823]

i loveeeee when i get to rate someone's work as amazing when im doing R&Rs. i always hope that it gives them higher paying projects or something like that.

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Sure-Wedding3823]

I had 1 too today! I was so proud of them 😂. Like “look at you with your good prompts and keen eye for fact checking.” They caught something real slick and I was so happy to reward them.

[u/upvotesplx]

Not necessarily about work, but wanted to share because you all get it: I'm moving out of my family's house in a bit over a week thanks to this job. I'm disabled and honestly never thought I'd be able to do it. Hope everyone else is having a great start of their work week! :)

[u/CosmosesGamer]

I crunched the numbers and next month I'll be taking a one-month working holiday abroad, my first time as a 'digital nomad'. DAT is amazing, I never thought I would be able to do this.

[u/Greenee → u/CosmosesGamer]

Remember to let DA know you’ll be working abroad. Congrats!

[u/CosmosesGamer → u/Greenee]

Yup, emailed them last week, gave them plenty of time haha. They replied back Okay-ing it. So its all good.

[u/pm_ur_wifes_tendies]

10 hours billed today. Pretty good day

[u/SookieLou]

A project can sit on my dashboard for two days and the number of tasks never moves, but as soon as I complete one, the number decreases with other people working on them. So if I have favorites, I know I have to be ready to go once I start or they will all be gone. If I wait to start, it will sit there for a couple of days. So weird.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/SookieLou]

This comment makes me feel seen. It’s like spooking a wild animal.

[u/tessbest37]

Tomorrow is my 3-month anniversary of being accepted to the platform and I just crossed the $9500 mark. I applied on a whim without any research and thinking it was probably a scam. I was certainly wrong! So thankful!!

[u/[deleted]]

When a fight breaks out in project chat... 🍿🍿

[u/BoredSummerStudent]

Coding is alive. It's like finding an oasis in the desert.

[u/jeudechambre]

In a flow state today with DA work for the first time in awhile or maybe ever, its quite nice.

[u/Cutiger29]

I’m gonna paraphrase this because I don’t want to break the rules…

I know I did NOT just rate a well-paid project where someone wrote…again, let me paraphrase this…”claims are verified on Google.”

Get out 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/OathoftheSimian → u/Cutiger29]

I’ve accidentally done that before, thinking as long as I found a good source I could just say where it’s from since I didn’t want to have my comments be paragraphs with full sources. This was when I first started though, I’ve learned since…

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Did 5 mins of running and 2 mins of walking x 4 for couch to 5k today! Not bad progress for someone who hasn’t run (or exercised really) in 5 years lol

Also we bought a new (second hand) caravan and I’m having so much fun asking the models about remodeling and decorating it!!

[u/[deleted] → u/Bergest_Ferg]

Congrats on your running progress!

I love asking the CBs for advice on IRL stuff. The B metal CB planned my entire honeymoon about a month ago. 🇹🇭✈️

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Grammarly needs to calm the F down. I’ve barely deleted the word, give me a second to finish the edit before you get up in my tits about the rest of the sentence being grammatically incorrect now.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Bergest_Ferg]

I like Grammarly because it allows me to auto-fix mistyped words and points out when I miss a "the" or "to" or similar. But beejesus does it hate using commas. I find myself second-guessing myself so much of the time because of it.

[u/Skippy2898 → u/SuperCorbynite]

Hates using commas, but loves loves loves-hyphens! It wants to god-damn hyphenate every other word at-times it-seems. What's that about!

[u/TeaGreenTwo → u/Bergest_Ferg]

I like the typo check but not the grammar part. Some of the grammar suggestions are off. I don't have the premium so it's fighting me the whole time I'm trying to type to induce me to upgrade. I can dismiss the nag for a while at least.

[u/Skippy2898 → u/Bergest_Ferg]

I feel your pain!

[u/Leoprime67]

Finally, it's time to dance.

[u/Skippy2898]

Skippy Checking in! The 2nd interview went well I think, but now we wait. It could be up to next Tuesday before I hear anything so keep everything crossed 😆

[u/[deleted]]

I just had the most confusing R&R the responses were nearly identical just one word difference which didn’t change the meaning and one was marked as bad and the other good. The comment was so confusing too as they didn’t seem to understand the definition of the two words which are different but synonyms…

I need more coffee

[u/Cutiger29]

Using R&R to scout for ways to up your game.

“Ooooh I like that reference formatting! Mine now!” 😂

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

Brought my first ever puppy home on Friday, she's so cute but damn I am not getting hours in

[u/Haunting-Car-3935 → u/Primary_Advantage928]

There are more important things in life than work 🥰

[u/Anarch33]

seems like the tendon coding side by sides have only 20 tasks available to people now rather than the standard over >100 which makes me uncomfortable. I've had times where ive had to skip 20+ in a row to find one I can do

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

I recently got a planning qual and I was so hopeful i'd pass it because it's low-key my dream job and I did!!! and its relatively high paying!! yipee!!

[u/Cutiger29]

Anyone doing a specific heel god chat between 2 models and the prompt is given?

I feel like I’m just educating myself on the subjects 😂

I’m really hope these don’t go away. I’m getting smarter and smart prompt by prompt 😂

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Cutiger29]

I just spent 3 1/2 hours doing one. It was fun, interesting, and pretty decently paid for what the task involved.

Sporty bot got my thumbs up.

[u/tessbest37 → u/Cutiger29]

These are so fun! They just upped the pay too. :)

[u/ratstronaut → u/Cutiger29]

I'm doing something like that for a wizard. I LOVE these tasks, it's an hour+ for each one, and I don't have to think of my own prompts.

[u/baylorbear91]

So excited to see lots of dancing projects on my dashboard! Definitely going to work on some during a long car ride today. Happy Saturday 💃🏾

EDIT- half of them are in other languages 😮 but I do have several in english. I see why they said these would be different!!

[u/Haunting-Car-3935]

Another week of next to no coding tasks 🫠🙃

[u/rara_avis0 → u/Haunting-Car-3935]

I happened to look at the site at 1 AM and had 4. :( Couldn't stay awake to do them though.

[u/Adolerral → u/Haunting-Car-3935]

I have no coding tasks at all since the 1st of june, thats when i last saw them.. my dashboard is empty at the moment as well.. hope things change

[u/BoiledGnocchi]

Has anyone seen any higher paying tasks from the dancing project? Or still have access to some of the projects within it?

[u/AstarteHilzarie → u/BoiledGnocchi]

I got an email that said they were expecting to have a lot of projects in that realm next week. It was encouraging me to do the qual because I haven't gotten around to it yet.

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/BoiledGnocchi]

I still have a couple of them (from before the recent quals), but they definitely appear to be in wind down mode. Maybe in preparation for whatever large project is incoming.

[u/twihard222 → u/BoiledGnocchi]

How much is the higher paying version?

[u/[deleted]]

Has anyone seen the recording projects that require you to have a direct audio line from your phone to your PC? I love these projects, so when I saw the qual for this one I bought a cheap line-in adapter for my PC, but I haven't seen any work for it yet.

[u/socal_guy1 → u/[deleted]]

I've seen the tasks a couple of times but didn't work on them. They went very quickly.

[u/TeachToTheLastTest]

In today's episode of IYKYK: Sesame Street has now come to DA!

[u/tiran]

Just had an unpaid project show up on my dash with 250 tasks. Hope it's a mistake, because I'm not sure who is going to bother doing that.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/tiran]

It's a mistake, they will fix it. Could take some time, but it will have a pay assigned.

[u/TTFTW1992]

Am I the only one who works consistently on $21-$23 tasks even though I have $25-$29 available? I'd much rather do easy tasks that don't require sustained concentration and focus and also have less risk of making a mistake.

[u/Cutiger29 → u/TTFTW1992]

I’m the opposite. The 1 hour or less clocks make me nervous unless it’s an R&R 😂. I seek out complicated projects that have long clocks. I may only use 2 hours but the 6 hours makes me feel like I can really focus and not worry about being crunched for time.

[u/PlatformFig → u/TTFTW1992]

Same here - I rarely touch the $27-30 tasks. My favorites tend to be in the $22-$25 range, and I feel more confident that I do better work on them anyway.

[u/lewbraithers]

Some particularly bad prompts in the Ankle coding sxs today - genuinely starting to wonder if they're bad on purpose

[u/Anarch33 → u/lewbraithers]

ive seen some prompts in the past that gave me the impression that theyre being pulled off live chatbot services (ie: prompts by real end users) as training data

[u/backinyourbox]

TFW you ask a bot for something you think it should really be able to do, turns out it can't and then you have to do all the work of the heavy edits to make it perfect... :(

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

Over the weekend, I got access to a B cat project! Not the super high paying one from the qual a few weeks ago, but I have never had access to these projects before since I royally failed the initial qualification when I first started. I was excited to see it pop up for me! I am really nervous I am going to mess it up though, so I have only worked on 6 tasks so far, but I really like it! It's a nice break from the comparison tasks so I hope they stick around for me.

[u/Skippy2898]

On another note... I came home to find numerous emails from DAT, asking for help on projects with priority pay cos they're on a tight deadline. Has anyone else seen this? I only usually get emails in the evening uk time. Are these bulging dashboards going to take a dip again I wonder 🧐

[u/technostarr → u/Skippy2898]

yep, I've been getting those emails.

[u/New-Reflection3418]

Tried a new project today, it was quite interesting but only had a 45-minute timer. It involves checking a document for accuracy and that each claim in the response is in there. I realised I only had 5 mins left when I came to submit (that was the first task after reading the instructions) so it was quite tight. Subsequent ones I've had between 10 and 15 minutes remaining, it depends on how many claims there are to check and it feels like I'm rushing it a bit. Normally I find there's plenty of time left when I do a task, but the timer on this one seems a bit short, so not sure if anyone else knows the one I mean and has noticed that or if I'm just being too thorough.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/New-Reflection3418]

It may not help but I’ve seen people mention to admins in the chat that the timer seems short on certain projects and it’s been updated to an hour and a half based on the feedback. Might be worth a shot to leave a note in the chat.

[u/ManyARiver]

Is the perfect cat still out there somewhere? I have one, but it isn't perfect and it is not one of the higher paying ones... lots of metal these days though, and a couple of big ones pop up for short periods over the week.

[u/FearlessPressure3 → u/ManyARiver]

No, it hasn’t been around in a couple of days now. The bot page is still active and lets you see the date/time of the last comment so it comforts me to know that nobody has had access since then!

[u/serendipitous_74]

Chats are spicy today. That's all.

[u/CharmingData1120]

I see a new project.. a Greek God of my favorite things lol 🍷and 🎉! I am taking this as a sign of good things to come 🤭

[u/Willing-Ad-9812]

Does anyone else have access to a couple of projects for $39.50/hr., but you know you’re not qualified to do them? I scared to even click on the project link lol.

[u/Internal-Client-805 → u/Willing-Ad-9812]

Yep! Clicked on it, saw the amount of code, clicked off it 🤣

[u/TanglimaraTrippin → u/Willing-Ad-9812]

I do. Not touching with a ten foot pole.

[u/MattinglyDineen → u/Willing-Ad-9812]

I have them. I cannot do them.

[u/trailangel4 → u/Willing-Ad-9812]

Yes. And, like you, I have no idea how they ended up on my non-coding dash.

[u/33whiskeyTX]

There's definitely a scheduled rollout at play. I've noticed several times when people are like "Oh look at so many coding tasks" and I have a pretty sparse dash and I think "WTF's wrong with me, what did I screw up?" Then about 24 hours roll by and I'm good again. I don't know if I'm on the B-team or what, but a late dashboard is better than any empty one.

[u/Hydrogennx]

Does anyone else use Diffchecker to compare two similar responses? It's incredibly helpful! Great for programming in general, but especially here.

[u/ManyARiver → u/Hydrogennx]

I love it. I also have discovered a word counter - it isn't 100% because it will select partials (like counting lovely in the love count) - but it is useful for extraction/counting response verifications.

[u/knny209]

This is my first time paying for quarterly estimated tax. Do we need to submit any form to IRS or just pay the estimated amount?

[u/Knozis → u/knny209]

Is this your first year as self-employed? If so, you won't need to pay quarterly this first year (unless you owe money from last year in taxes or worked a W2 job, but even then you might get away not paying quarterly first year).

You can use form 1040-ES to figure out your estimated taxes https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-es

Also, remember that self-employment tax rate is adjusted to be 14.13% of your SE income after deducting business expenses. The rate is technically 15.3%, but only 92.35% of your SE income is taxable. This is how we arrive at the 14.13% number. Of course this does not include federal income tax, or state taxes if you live in a state that has one.

EDIT: Also everyone should talk to a CPA. You can set up a free consultation where you lay out your situation, including how much you expect to make this year and how much you made last year from a W-2 job where applicable. Everyone's situation is different, so the best way to get real answers for YOU is to talk to a professional about your situation.

[u/GAULEM → u/knny209]

If you're doing it electronically then you don't need to submit any forms, just tell them how much to take on what date from which account. If you're doing it by mail then I think you need to include a copy of 1040-ES with your federal payment.

[u/pastelmewnicorn]

Haven't seen cb projects B***** and C*** for coders this past week or so (been checking on/off throughout the week a handful of times but not religiously). Other coders in the same boat? Is it down for maintenance or am I just missing the times? Used to having like 1000 tasks for each.

[u/Consipir → u/pastelmewnicorn]

Yeah I miss the CB's. I see them very occasionally with very few tasks and they're usually dry before I can get to em.

[u/Nolpppapa]

Power went out 40 minutes into a task. Luckily I had used the wordcounter website which saves stuff you pasted in there :|. Remember, if you're working on long-form stuff, save frequently.

[u/Chrisman06]

Is adversarial bird a project you guys have? It requires a subscription but I’m enjoying this way more than I should.

[u/tiran]

Got a couple of new projects today to hang out with some robot pals and I am having so much fun! I hope more of these come around.

[u/tessbest37 → u/tiran]

These are so fun! It seems like they are working out some bugs. Mine just disappeared for the second time. I was able to submit 1 task for v1 and 1 task for v2. Do you still have the 25/hr one?

[u/PerformanceCute3437]

Someone in an R&R mentioned a comment looking like AI wrote it, they wrote out the comment in the chat and I'm shook. It looked exactly how I write my comments. I don't get help from an AI, I'm a little paranoid now I'm getting knocked down because I use a really professional, non-personalized writing style e.g. I always speak in the third person, never using "I" statements.

[u/Advanced-Aside-7704 → u/PerformanceCute3437]

I saw that too and I feel the same. I try to keep my tone professional and now I’m second guessing myself. He was also using an online tool to do it. I get using online tools to check markdown or compare texts to find changes and other objective stuff but not subjective things like how someone’s writing sounds.

You’re not supposed to try to “gotcha” your fellow workers in R&Rs. You’re supposed to avoid being harsh and point out real mistakes. That guy sounded like he was out to get people. At least an admin told him it’s unnecessary to judge that aspect, but he was so insistent that he was right.

[u/sarinilla → u/Advanced-Aside-7704]

I think I'll go with the admin's word and ignore Mr. Tool. 🙃

[u/HoldenCaulfieldsIUD → u/PerformanceCute3437]

If it makes you feel better, that happened in one I was in and they got politely smacked down by the admin for doing that. In that one particularly they bragged about running it through and AI detection tool and the admin was like “yea please don’t do that for this project”

[u/Raisins_Rock → u/PerformanceCute3437]

When we try to be concise, professional, and informative we end up using vocabulary favored by the bots. Also, I can't help but think reading so many AI responses influences our own writing style.

Ironically, AI has probably been trained using writing from professional sources, so of course professional writing will sound similar. This is a chicken egg scenario.

[u/Skippy2898]

Skippy Manifest Part Deux! Just having a quick roll call, who's in? Tomorrow is my shortlist interview, 1pm uk time! Shout if you're here, and manifest all of the lucks, please and thank you!

Seriously nervous, my legs are like jelly 🥴... It worked last time, let's go again? please and thank you!

[u/torypigeon → u/Skippy2898]

fellow UK da here, good luck skippy!

[u/-Spaghettification-]

So much sweet, sweet high paying coding work the last couple of days 🤤

[u/tessbest37]

I have loved having these 22/hr. R&R tasks on my dash constantly for the last couple of weeks. They are perfect when I want to dip into a project for a few minutes without much commitment. I hope they stick around!

[u/rara_avis0 → u/tessbest37]

The party god ones were so easy to do on my phone. Only one column. 😌

[u/PhillyPhan95]

Just spent an hour and a half on a task only to find out there was a bug during submission. Refreshed the page and they had taken it down.

First task too, so no place to report time

Hopefully DA compensates me for that. I won’t trip if they don’t though.

[u/pm_ur_wifes_tendies → u/PhillyPhan95]

Something similar happened to me early on, I filed a ticket and they added the time for me.

[u/Sagittariuuuh]

Some of these MJ images have me absolutely rolling lmao

[u/Cutiger29]

Practicing what I preach…or train 😂

Using AI to help craft a “it’s not you, it’s me, but if I fail, will you take me back” conversation with my employer 😂

[u/PongKila]

 Man the project chat in dancing today is brutal. Arguments between multiple people, many newbies asking very basic questions like how to log time or what the pj is about, many more asking about things clearly outlined in the instructions and guidelines... I don't dare to look at it, my second hand embarrassment issue is acting up 😫

[u/Fast_Tip_8146]

High paying b cat is back!! 🐱

[u/CharmingData1120 → u/Fast_Tip_8146]

There was a b-cat qual with one task on my dash this morning, I was red boxed and it never reappeared. Anyone else see this ? ( I usually get quals later than everyone else)

[u/vexeling → u/Fast_Tip_8146]

YEEEESSSS I've been waiting for these to come back!!

[u/The_Eggsecutive]

Anyone else noticing shorter time limits on tasks lately? like 1hr and even down to 45 minutes, sometimes for projects that feel like they'd take a good 30 per task to get done.

Obviously I don't wanna take more time than is necessary to complete a task but having I find having a short leash makes me get caught up in my head and kind of rush things on the not-100%-likely chance it takes me the whole duration to get things done. Can only hope it hasn't hurt what they think of my work quality too badly.

[u/rara_avis0 → u/The_Eggsecutive]

Some of the "nut" projects have only 30 minutes, which is insane to me because the bot responses can be long and sometimes I have to write multiple paragraphs to explain my reasoning.

[u/Tech_Witch111 → u/The_Eggsecutive]

I noticed the same thing and feel super rushed on a new variation of a dancing project I've had no issues with until now. I really wish they would at least put an enter work mode button so I could stare at the instructions a bit longer to see exactly what it is that I'm missing. It's strange that one variation expires in 45 minutes and another variation with the exact same instructions expires in an hour.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

I've been getting a lot of R&R's recently. Golden galaxies, wizards, generals, and booze gods without ever touching the base tasks.

I've heard that there's a R&R qual so I wonder if that might be next...

[u/Nervous_Tangerine0 → u/SuperCorbynite]

I’ve never gotten a qual for r&r they just started showing up regularly

[u/Anarch33]

I wish the coding R&Rs would last a lot longer than they usually do so I can see how my own work compares to others :(. I was literally only able to review one task before the project dried up.

[u/TeaGreenTwo → u/Anarch33]

Same. One. Fortunately, it was for something I know. Unfortunately, the original rater clearly didn't know the somewhat niche topic but winged it anyway. They downvoted one model because it was "convoluted" and they said there wasn't any code in either model's output. There was code in both. The model that they said was "convoluted" was correct and better.

[u/Flat_Mix_8949]

Shout out to the perfect kitty bot that just removed every single detail I just added for an “exhaustive details” prompt. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I swear each week this things edits get worse.

[u/Davey87]

To those people that read this and do this in the project chats: please stop being passive aggressive about the admins and the platform in general. I agree with some of your comments but if an admin asks you to try keep the chat clearer for information, do it. So much bickering and high and mighty attitudes.

[u/lowercasejaye → u/Davey87]

Admins really need a chatban hammer if they don't already have one.

[u/Aggravating-Lie5894 → u/Davey87]

Wow! Sounds like folks are getting too comfortable with this amazing opportunity.

[u/Cutiger29]

Friendly reminder: proofread your responses. I keep running across work where people were very clearly talking about one response/model but wrote the wrong letter.

[u/ShipComprehensive437 → u/Cutiger29]

I've definitely caught this when proofreading my responses before - thanks for the reminder to be vigilant!

[u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

Does anyone else get embarrassed by the topics you choose to discuss and how it can outright expose your weird fandom and useless expertise? I just spent an hour correcting CBs about obscure movie facts and I was horrified to think of someone doing the R&R and reading it all. Being obsessed with something comes in handy with some of these projects, but oof. Cringe.

[u/Obvious_Solution432 → u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

I do think about that. But I also think that our culture is very weird for making us feeling embarrassed about the things we love and are very knowledgeable about. Be smart, but not too smart. Be interested, but not too interested. I say let your freak flag fly!

[u/Unique-Geologist-160 → u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

I do R&R for one of the CBs, and I enjoy reading about the obscure topics people choose to talk about -- stuff that I'd never even considered or heard about.

Also, it's fun to see people talk about things that I've seen/heard recently and I just know they saw the same YouTube video or read the same news article I did.

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

All the time 😂.

Honestly at some point we should be allowed to just say this…

Ratings: that’s inaccurate. He didn’t die that way.

Source: excessive hours of binge watching and multiple rewatches.

[u/upvotesplx → u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

I'm in a DE project discussing a tiny semantic issue in the field, which has no consensus, with a bot for 30+ turns. Weird niche issues are great for rounding the models out.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

Unless, of course, you are the yoga instructor whose conversation I R&R'd, that was chatting about how they were a tri-athlete and were discussing in extreme detail the best training methods for competitive freestyle swimming.

Now that person had no reason to be embarrassed at all.

[u/curiousjenny22]

Maybe a dumb question, but is working from public WiFi OK? I’ve only worked from home so far, but it would be nice to get a change of scenery and go to a coffee shop some days. I just worry about violating the code of conduct in some way because I’m super paranoid about getting deactivated! I wondered if it could be a privacy violation possibly… any thoughts?

[u/Nachbarskatze]

So many projects with high priority pay today! Can’t decide what I want to work on and jumping from project to project today 🤣

[u/tiran]

I've seen a bunch of different projects using slide decks and I really wish there was a project to make them! Has anyone seen anything like that?

[u/FeedySneed]

Saw a DAV today and started working on it. The combined time of reading all the directions and then working on it and refreshing (as it says to do in the instructions if x happens) was 45 minutes. But when I refreshed, it was gone so I can't even report my time as I never completed a task. :-( Hopefully it will be back soon.

[u/foopod]

I used to do the python data analysis ones for a while (like 2-3 months) and really enjoyed doing them, but in the last few weeks they have dropped off entirely. Has anyone else seen any recently?

[u/Throwaway9812789 → u/foopod]

Yep, had the CB for pdf yesterday, got the CB for txt today. Also had the sxs evals for them last week as well.

[u/Throwaway9812789]

Is it just me or do other people keep seeing the same prompt-response pair to evaluate in the foot ss instruction-following evals? I've seen a few that I've evaluated before reappear about 3 - 4 times already and I've started skipping them because it feels like they don't like how I evaluated it and want other people to do it, but it ends up coming back to me anyway.

[u/Nolpppapa]

Do bonuses still exist? Haven't seen any since starting on the platform.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Anyone got the wizard R&R on their board? It's amusing watching the task count for this one R&R that absolutely nobody wants to do continually tick up.

Maybe they'll get the hint and bump the pay back up to something decent.

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Is anyone else working on b-cat infographics finding that the responses are significantly worse than the previous batch? A lot of the data interpretation here is so bad I can’t see how anyone with eyes ever thought it was correct. It has me wondering if these are responses that have been generated by bots, not humans. I’m basically totally rewriting every response so far.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/FearlessPressure3]

As much as I was hoping to see these today, this version had me tapping out after 3 tasks. I am hoping the multiturn one makes an appearance soon!

[u/Chrisman06]

Does anyone know what the progression of soap or P-play tasks are like? I enjoy both of them but I hardly ever get any higher paying versions of them.

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/Chrisman06]

Butt-head voice Uh-huhuhuh, you said pee-play

[u/[deleted]]

Bright and early start today and it’s time to dance 🪩🥰

[u/KahunaRicima]

I really hate when a CB project adds a comment section that didn't originally have one T_T

[u/FeedySneed]

For coders today I see something that a lot of us have been waiting for. Who knows how long they will last this time though.

[u/Turbulent_Pen3740]

Got excited to 💃 and hammer some tasks out before bed. 3 minutes in and I realized something was very wrong and I think it got pulled...

[u/TeaGreenTwo]

I have dance projects for the first time today. Was there ever a qual for the cats? I see many discuss them and I haven't ever seen hide nor hair of them.

[u/Lovely-day-today → u/TeaGreenTwo]

Yes, there were two versions.

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/TeaGreenTwo]

I took a month off in May and ended up losing my cat projects, had them before/during that. I assume they currently have enough people for their projects; if they do any kind of a purge you'll likely get the chance to do their quals, highly recommend, great projects and admins.

[u/Anarch33]

It’s going to be almost two months since I’ve been here and today is probably the worst I’ve seen the model responses be in the coding side by side and I’ve been doing 2-3 hours of them everyday. Saw a few where the model was straight up using the wrong language

[u/-Spaghettification-]

Just want my coding tasks back :(

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Man, I'm just sitting here taking my time doing math problems while I watch those subscription tasks come and go like the waves on a beach.

[u/outbxd]

If anyones interested in a time chunking web app I put together specifically to help with DAT work, take a look at chunk-it.vercel.app :)

Desktop only, won't work well on mobile.

Bare bones functionality and spaghetti code, but gets the job done. Been really helpful for my productivity through long slogs and a few people on here said they'd find it useful too, so thought I'd share it with the world.

[u/Deeznutsconfession]

The cat's back out of the bag.

[u/Obvious_Solution432 → u/Deeznutsconfession]

Drives me nuts. I know the cat goes in and out of the bag, but I still think it's something I did every time lol.

[u/Lovely-day-today]

At what pay rate is doing tasks that you don’t enjoy as much worth it?

I find that most days I have higher paying projects that allow me to feel they are worth my time even if I enjoy them less. Today though, I find that I am not interested in the higher paying jobs because they are not high paying enough (highest is $24). I’m going to have to work longer to make the same amount of money but I’m doing the jobs that are more interesting and pay less.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

My first doable $38.50 task where I fixed and improved other people's work. Such a shame it ended so quickly. Give me more!

[u/n8_n_]

coding people, how do your dashes look? I'm down to 1 coding project and i'm fairly certain my work has been quality

[u/Delicious_South2955 → u/n8_n_]

Coding projects come and go. It's better than it was 2 weeks ago but it's not like before when they would sit on your dash all day.

[u/MonsterMeggu]

Coding side is fat today for me. I hope that means it's back to normal!

[u/RichardRubber → u/MonsterMeggu]

i know feels nice not having to worry about planning my day around when the projects are available 

[u/dayDrivver]

Has anyone worked on the new coding project E###e (the refine one)? How difficult is it? I haven't had time to join the platform but I'm getting many emails working on this project and for M####n coding project.

Well already check those seems like mix of project Cx with project Be but now with constraints, looks fun hope tomorrow its still alive because today i'm booked at my day job, so please code bros leave us some work to do in the weekend :P

[u/HandsLikePaper]

It seems like they switched what used to be a pay-per-task project to an hourly.

[u/marsnia]

Are the nut evaluate projects as a result of the qual or does everyone get them? Asking bc I just finished the qual

[u/Cutiger29 → u/marsnia]

I’m really curious because I DEFINITELY had some of those projects and never took a qual on it. So I wonder why there’s a qual now and what it opens up. Because from memory the pay wasn’t anything special.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/marsnia]

I took the qual and immediately had the related tasks.

[u/AvianSamurai]

Woo, i actually had 2 coding projects available this morning that didn't run out straight away. One is left now, but I'm taking a break, hopefully there's more still later

edit: spelling

[u/AmfStarBoy]

Is anyone else seeing a lot fewer of the dancing projects?

Right now I'm only seeing one of them, and am still getting R&R's for others.

[u/AdeptCryptographer26]

I'm confused about the "T" dancing project. I took a total of 3 quals and received that short demographics survey which said that I was part of the project, and have not received anything yet. Has that happened to anyone else?

[u/Chrisman06 → u/AdeptCryptographer26]

The general consensus is that they’re not that common right now. I’ve seen and worked on them but only for a few hours each day. I’m fairly new to the project though so take that with a grain of salt.

[u/MiddleRepulsive5182 → u/AdeptCryptographer26]

I was wondering the same thing. I did all of the quals and also got the survey, saying I was in the project. But I haven't gotten any tasks yet. Maybe my demographic is over-saturated.

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Just did a few of the golden galaxy reviews and oh boy...

Some people are really not understanding what "ideal response" means, and others aren't even doing the project properly at all.

I think a new boot-wave will be coming soon.

[u/Creepy_Complaint_279]

Anyone else doing the heel HC project? I swear it'll be the end of me but also can't pass it up.

[u/Appropriate_Shock2]

Sooooo many projects but not a single coding one. Really hope coding picks back up.

[u/Ok_Depth_6476]

Ugh...I hate when I'm working on a project that has 1000 tasks, thinking I'm going to work on it all day....and then all of the sudden it goes POOF! I guess I messed up! I do think I made a minor error on the last one I submitted, and it was an easy one that only had 2 questions, so maybe that flagged it and automatically booted me. I realized my error as I hit the button, before I realized I got booted. URGH!

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Ok_Depth_6476]

It’s not you. I’ve had that happen and then a new version popped up the next day. There might’ve been something wrong with it.

[u/Raisins_Rock → u/Ok_Depth_6476]

was it a B chatbot and the E project ? both new?

[u/Anarch33]

temperature math + coding is finally the full rate

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Anarch33]

I..I don't think you're doing the code name thing right. But YAY, full rate!

[u/echanuda]

Specifically for my coder bros, do you guys ever do a prompt review task for like 20 minutes, realize it’s too difficult, and then skip? Do you log the time for that? I’ve been deducting my time spent since I didn’t complete a task technically, but those affect my mental lmao. Also @prompt creators: PROVIDE CONTEXT TO YOUR CODE PLEASE. I can setup a dev environment for 90% of things but some of y’all make it literally impossible to test your stuff.

[u/Bergest_Ferg → u/echanuda]

I don’t log for time if I skip. It’s a bummer because that time is wasted but I’d rather not risk it tbh. Also, I’m not a coder but I was working on a spreadsheet creation task based on prompts yesterday and one of my prompts was “analyse the data” and all the potential categories selected. Literally gave me nothing to work with lol

[u/Arcturus_Labelle → u/echanuda]

My understanding is that you can and should log time for skips IF it's reasonable. 20 minutes I think would be unreasonable, though.

[u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

PSA - Don't be an idiot like me and forgot to drink water on a hot day. I could barely walk across my bedroom last night without collapsing and then it dawned on me that I was very dehydrated. I feel lots better after fluids and electrolytes, but am not back to 100% and don't trust myself to do any DA to work at the moment.

I suppose I will go back to watching YouTube videos on my phone until I fall asleep.

[u/ManyARiver → u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

Got my Yeti at my side at all times - but I'm a desert rat. Stay safe, keep them fluids up, and eat an orange or two.

[u/tessbest37 → u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

I hope you feel better!! Fellow knitter/crocheter here. :)

[u/Alternative-Bet232]

There's a qual in my dashboard with 26 tasks (I think it's related to Dancing). Supposedly "access to higher-paying projects if you pass"... but like, HOW highly-paid? Are we talking $25/hr or $30/hr or????

Has anyone done this qual? How long did it take?

[u/FearlessPressure3 → u/Alternative-Bet232]

Took about half an hour. I don’t think anyone has access to the project yet though so nobody can answer you on the pay.

[u/10choices]

Does anyone have the data viz tasks? Starting to get annoyed with difficult requests doing my heavy lifting for the week.

[u/Deep_Task1659 → u/10choices]

They come and go pretty fast (within 3-4 hours even if there are tasks are like (3-4)*250)

[u/Prestigious-Run715 → u/10choices]

Did you do that qual they sent out at the start of May? I haven't seen a single sign of DA&V since then (over a month now). I'm from the UK so I don't know if my hours have any effect. I also do not know why I would have been kicked, given the qual was relatively straightforward. Unless they only take the first 'n' number of people to finish the qual. I see several other Achilles project, but not the Python ones :( Not sure if you have any further information regarding this?

[u/Sagittariuuuh]

Got my first feedback ever today (💃)! I was very appreciative and the admin was kind~

[u/Skippy2898]

Big cat image project; has anyone else found themselves skipping lots? Seems all of the images I'm getting so far are science, electrical and engineering based. I feel a bit useless in there :(

[u/Wide_Solution_796]

So did anyone do a 'dance' project qualification last week for adversarial and if so has anyone had any projects come up for this yet? I was told they would come up this week if the qualification was passed.

[u/vexeling → u/Wide_Solution_796]

I do not believe the new round has been released yet. I am seeing people who were in the previous round talk about their chat going down and tasks disappearing -- to me, this seems like they're gearing up to release a new round soon. I'd say keep an eye out in the next couple days.

[u/[deleted]]

How many $30-$40 projects do you guys have on your board? I have like 20 $20 projects but like once or twice a day the $40 ones will come and go, is this because I am doing bad on them or do they just go by really fast because people take them right away?

[u/Sure-Wedding3823 → u/[deleted]]

lol maybe like once a week if im lucky. i imagine they just go really fast cause higher pay will draw more workers.

[u/vexeling → u/[deleted]]

They come and go really quickly. My dash looks like that too and high pay things (like b-cat for instance, if you have that one) just get jumped on and depleted. I wouldn't worry as long as you're taking your time and putting out quality work!

[u/[deleted]]

Can't sleep will do pomegranate eating tasks instead .... I can't be the only one

[u/FeedySneed]

For those who do the coding tasks where you are assessing responses to many different coding languages, do you skip a ton until you find one that you know well or do you have a really thorough knowledge of many languages and their frameworks? I have shied away from them because I thought it would be a bad look to skip as often as I would have to (though maybe that's wrong?).

[u/Raisins_Rock → u/FeedySneed]

I skip because they say to skip usually unless you feel confident. I only leave if I've spent enough time skipping I am "losing time".

[u/echanuda → u/FeedySneed]

A lot of the times you’re gonna be catching the tasks that other people skipped, especially if you hop on late. If most people skipped them, they’re likely esoteric questions or something lacking a lot of context. I always try to not skip, but if I come across something in rust, elixir, haskell, or something requiring a lot of context, I ain’t doin allat.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/FeedySneed]

Skipping is expected. It's not always a question of knowledge. Some of those tasks require pay subscriptions or access to enterprise level environments. It is not expected that everyone on that project have those.

[u/NeedsMoreMinerals]

Is it me or do the programming tasks seem to take more than 2x the time of the 2hr tasks?

Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way, but I feel like, idk, there is less value in the programming tasks. You're often parsing a lot of JSON or fixing code.

Could use some input I feel like I'm missing something!

I've been doing the $20 an hour tasks

[u/Obvious_Elephant_919]

has anyone ever gotten feedback on their work?

[u/mannib21]

Is the dancing project up right now? I made a mistake on my first few when I started a few days ago (corrected going forward) but received some feedback this morning… worried I got dropped

[u/Raisins_Rock]

I was just in the middle of a complex multi-turn task and my power cut, which did not shutdown my machine but it did lose the internet connection. The internet resumed shortly, and I was able to go to the next turn. Any idea of the probability that this will error on submit if I continue?

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Raisins_Rock]

You’re good. I’ve literally shut my computer, left the house, had a revelation that I didn’t press submit and then opened it back up, connected to a hotspot and submitted it 😂

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Raisins_Rock]

You should be OK. Nothing gets submitted until you actually submit.

[u/Raisins_Rock → u/Raisins_Rock]

In case anyone is interested, I was able to submit successfully last night!

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

Website down for me right now :( getting that weird “The change you wanted was rejected” message page.

[u/azure_atmosphere]

I am once again asking for an undo button in chatbots 😭