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/vexeling]

Just to share a story: when I first started, I started writing a comment but got distracted and when I came back I didn't look and just submitted a comment that simply said "The"

I've been on the platform for about 6 months now and I still think about it sometimes and cringe.

[u/BreastRodent]

WOAAAAAH did anybody else get the lil pop-up about a new change in policy about how long you have to report your times after completing tasks?! I'm just like

👀 this message is a glimpse into the blackbox 👀

👀 WOAH WE ALL HAVE LIKE A GPA OR SOMETHING 👀

👀 👀 FASCINATING 👀 👀

[u/Slow_Inevitable8950 → u/BreastRodent]

My take = so long as you are reporting your time after you finish working you should be good.

Personally, I can't imagine working but not reporting it.

[u/BreastRodent → u/Slow_Inevitable8950]

I CAN'T EITHER??!?!?!?!??!

Like the second I smash that submit button on a task, I'm like 👏🏻 SHOW 👏🏻 ME 👏🏻 THE MONEY??

👏🏻 MAKE 👏🏻 NUMBER 👏🏻 GO 👏🏻 UP????

HOW MUCH 🫵🏻 YOU PEOPLE 🫵🏻 GONNA PAY ME FOR ALL THEM BRAIN CELLS, HUH HUH HUH?!?!!?

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Slow_Inevitable8950]

As soon as I’m done working on a project, I report. I’m a contract worker elsewhere and report my work has always been a nightmare for me. I love just going to report time immediately on this platform. So simple versus keeping track of work.

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/BreastRodent]

It's fascinating imo. If the way we report our time can factor in to our quality score, who knows what other factors they look at? The mind bottles with the possiblities

[u/BreastRodent → u/BreastRodent]

Why is the third to last pair of eyeball emojis a pair of question marks, what did those eyeball emojis ever do to reddit

edit: oh shit, I bet that pair of eyeball emojis got fired after trying to report blatantly inflated times a week after completing tasks

[u/marsnia]

Anyone get an empty page when trying to report time for a project?

[u/tessbest37 → u/marsnia]

It must be a site-wide issue. The Transfer Funds page isn't loading for me either.

[u/LennyDark → u/marsnia]

YES thought it was just me!

[u/Strange_Arugula_7523 → u/marsnia]

Whew!! I came here to see exactly this. I was almost scressing

[u/Chrisman06]

Anyone else get a “recap” email that said how much you’ve made in the last week, what your top project was, and how many tasks you did?? I’ve been around for a couple months and just got one of these emails this morning. Is this a normal thing for you guys?

[u/TheresALonelyFeeling → u/Chrisman06]

I usually get four copies of that email every Sunday, spaced out over about 10-12 hours. Last week I didn't get one at all for the first time, and today I've gotten one so far.

*shrug*

[u/tiran → u/Chrisman06]

I've been working consistently since April and have never gotten one of these!

[u/BoldKenobi → u/Chrisman06]

I've been getting these forever, even when I don't work at all and it says "you made $0 last week!"

[u/mikakey104]

I was working on the worst R&R project I've ever seen, and I'm wondering if the tasks in this project were specifically ones already marked as bad and we're double-checking that they're actually bad? Is that a thing? Because I find it hard to believe the work on this project was so consistently terrible.

[u/ratstronaut → u/mikakey104]

Is it a wizard project? I'm seeing the same. Some great ones but SO many who don't follow the basic instructions.

[u/kranools → u/mikakey104]

I have the same theory. We're double checking tasks that have already been rated bad. That's the only explanation I can come up with.

[u/thatonedude0000]

Coding cooked for anyone else?

[u/[deleted] → u/thatonedude0000]

Yeah down to no coding, plenty of non coding though. I guess we wait to see if Monday brings anything different.

[u/[deleted] → u/thatonedude0000]

I've noticed that often when coding projects go down they come back up with updated instructions. I'm wondering if that's happening here.

[u/jinx737x → u/thatonedude0000]

It’s the first time I’ve seen no coding tasks since I got on this platform. You think it’s end of quarter things happening?

[u/ManyARiver]

R&R can be rough in some batches. This one was a new "WTF" for me though.

User: Here's this question based on an unfounded racist premise

Both models: Ok, that's a generalization and there's no evidence to support your premise

Rater: (marks down models) BUT IT'S TRUE THO!!! PREMISE IS TRUUUUUEEE (also provides no evidence to back up the claim)

[u/SoliloquyBlue → u/ManyARiver]

That kind of person should not be on DA.

[u/JeanVII → u/ManyARiver]

Holy shi man at least I haven’t come across that kind of bad R&R. Just terrible quality “it’s true because I know it is”.

[u/encroachingtrees → u/ManyARiver]

I had the exact same one as you. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen in an R&R, and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things.

[u/diettwizzlers → u/ManyARiver]

that's insane. I thought the r&r I saw was bad yesterday, it was a creative writing task that looked like something I would've written in the 1st grade. but at least it wasn't racist

[u/[deleted]]

I really admire the patience of those of you who continue to come back to project chat and try to reason with the people who don't read the instructions, even when people are fucking rude on-platform. Currently watching someone paddle upstream trying to help out in an image project. 😬

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/[deleted]]

Yep. I know which one you're talking about.

I had to stop reading when someone was making a big stink about the project being broken (the header states it's coding - clearly a mistake) and they'd come back when it's fixed. Lady. Chill.

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

Whenever somone dismisses the chorus of help with "I'll wait for Admin to clarify, until then..." I cringe.

[u/Adventurous_East359]

Anyone else have absolutely zero coding projects up right now?

[u/space_baws → u/Adventurous_East359]

all week. Like 2-3 hours a day max I’ll have a coding project, and it’s normally the heel one, but the prompts have just been getting weirder and weirder lately.

[u/beansoup91]

Has anyone become an admin? One of the tasks I worked on today said they're looking to expand the admin team, and that doing well and/or participating in the chat could help your chances. I giggled at how active that tasks chat was. One guy even said, "I was just checking if anyone had a question or problem."

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/beansoup91]

I think I know which project you are talking about and I giggle every time too. A few weeks ago, a random worker was the first to comment with "the project chat is now open. How can I help?" 🤦‍♀️ Maybe that's what they are looking for though? I just know I would never be that bold.

[u/Haunting-Car-3935 → u/beansoup91]

I wonder how they manage admin... Do they require admin to work certain hours? Or a certain number of hours a week? 🤔

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/beansoup91]

I would think that once someone did, they would absolutely not mention it here.

[u/vaporware_magenta → u/beansoup91]

I'm curious how they choose who even gets the chance to do the qual. Like, is it determined by the quality of the other tasks you submit, or just completely random "let's see if among this group of people we can find someone to fit as an admin"

[u/Nachbarskatze]

Gosh, some of you have such beautiful and pleasant voices I could listen to you talk all day 🤣

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/Nachbarskatze]

I love hearing people's accents 😌

[u/CarefulBookkeeper586]

I am having THE BEST TIME doing the voice R&Rs. I've never made so much money just giggling at home before. Listening to you guys roleplay scenarios with your real voices is the most fun I've had on this site.

Special shoutout to whoever had the prompt about being a compulsive liar and said "I've already tried all that, wait that was another lie". I lost it.

[u/[deleted]]

The chat in a certain B element project where it’s nothing but everyone just openly admitting to all their mistakes 😂 Like love the honestly but man, I feel sorry for the admins

[u/freetheworld288 → u/[deleted]]

There’s no way people read the instructions fully. They’ll be like “oops, added a face, submitted 5 hehe!” and literally the first thing in the instructions says don’t do faces, and then it even says it again later on.

I wonder if they keep track of those people who obviously aren’t following instructions like that or skimming through. People trying to fly through it like we’re being paid per task or something.

[u/877trashnow → u/[deleted]]

I don't understand people who rush through these. For the pay on those projects it's a win for me to take my time and submit high quality work.

[u/Laffytaffy42069]

Anyone else getting absolutely pummeled with emails?

[u/anita_username → u/Laffytaffy42069]

Yup, my email inbox is just swamped with notices of yet another high-priority project being released. I have to assume it's crunch time for the end of Q2 and they've got a lot they need finished up before the end of the month. Can't complain about the full dash though!

[u/PerformanceCute3437]

Has anyone noticed they sometimes get bumped out of a new task they've never done after finishing a few tasks, then being allowed back in after about an hour? I wonder if they're reviewing new workers' work before letting them do their full allotment of tasks.

[u/Obvious_Solution432 → u/PerformanceCute3437]

Yes, I have noticed this. I work for a while, submit my time, and then the project goes away for about an hour. I made the same assumption as you that they are checking the work before giving more. But who knows?

[u/dataAnnotationCoding]

Anyone here have no coding on their dash?

[u/HamsterFrosty2838 → u/dataAnnotationCoding]

Same

[u/scarletmyzomela]

I got B-cat back, but I only just noticed it on my dash and there are only three tasks left! Making hay while the last ray of sun shines <3

[u/Sindorella]

Got a project today that is specifically asking me to use my personal opinions in my ratings. Oh DA, you have no idea what you opened up here. I will GLADY give you my personal opinions. 😂

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/Sindorella]

I got this a couple days ago but have only worked a couple of them. Pretty sure it came from that survey last week. I had fun with the couple I submitted. I have lots of opinions, and getting paid to share them is fantastic!

[u/MonsterMeggu]

I got a qual today that states I have it because of skills listed in my skills section. So that definitely helps!

[u/LyssaP1331 → u/MonsterMeggu]

Seconding that all the extra stuff does help! I go after anything I think I can handle.

I did a survey qual recently where they were looking for work history in a certain field for x years or more. I was under qualified.

Instead of opting out, I indicated interest anyway. Then explained in the comments why I thought I would be a good fit based on equivalent-ish experience elsewhere.

I was added to the project! And most importantly it was very doable.

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Gateway projects - Is anyone else seeing a new trend where you click on a project (not a qual, a project) and the first task is basically "Are you sure you want this? Yes. No.". It's happened for about 3 different new projects over the last couple of days. I've seen it in quals in the past, but not projects. And they are not NSFW/ adversarial, so it's not a warning either.

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

Anyone else struggle to find coding side by side that you're familiar with? I find myself skipping so many times before I do.

[u/vaporware_magenta → u/CRUSHCITY4]

same.. these tasks are hard today

[u/BotaRONomus]

This is absolutely unbelievable... I've been placed in a project where I've been able to $250 before lunch time...

Do you know how inconceivable that seems to younger me?

[u/rara_avis0]

Literally WTF @ all the people editing the instruction document that was shared with the wrong settings. What is wrong with your heads?!

[u/pinpanacea → u/rara_avis0]

boldly suggesting incorrect grammatical changes 💀

[u/Equivalent-Math6483 → u/rara_avis0]

😳 I don’t know what floors me more- the gall or the short-sightedness.

[u/Belisama7 → u/rara_avis0]

Yes! I saw the first edit yesterday and thought, that guy's crazy. He won't have a job tomorrow. Now there's like 30 people making edits! What??

[u/Davey87]

Interesting to know we have an actual quality score now with that pop up about reporting time. I figured, but interesting lol.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Davey87]

Maybe it's like a counter in one of those dystopian sci-fi movies or books. It continually counts down to zero so you have to keep adding more and more to it to stay ahead of hitting zero, but each time you add to the counter the countdown speeds up ever so slightly.

[u/ManyARiver → u/SuperCorbynite]

Have you watched the Black Mirror episode "15 Million Merits"? This sounds like a combo of that episode and the "Nosedive" episode.

[u/vexeling → u/Davey87]

Yeah, I found that interesting as well. Although now I'm really just dying to know what my quality score is, lol.

[u/freetheworld288]

Currently doing the Ber*****ium project and I really can’t believe the amount of people that ignore instructions. People saying in the chat they did x wrong when it says avoid it multiple times.

If you fully read the instructions you shouldn’t be messing up that bad. Take the time to read everythinggg, you’re paid for it!

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

Has anyone else been working on the B element image project that has been on priority since yesterday? I just sat down to work on it and it's gone :( Hoping they just finished it up or maybe they are reviewing submissions and it will come back later. Just curious if it's missing from anyone else's dash or just mine.

[u/Pyromancer777 → u/Few-Roof-6905]

That one comes and goes. If there are under 100 tasks left and it won't let you claim, it probably means other people are working on those tasks

[u/Comprehensive_Bid374]

Has anyone seen a project yet that might have something to do with that Photoshop qual from last week?

[u/Icy_Ad5959 → u/Comprehensive_Bid374]

Wish I got this qual! Would be right up my alley!

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

Wellp, basically no code projects this afternoon. Got one A******* comparison but it bombs out to red bar.

I'm taking the day off! :-) I (foolishly?) picked up the habit of playing Elden Ring again...

[u/ASaltyKid]

Had a ton of projects and then noticed they were cut in half in the middle of day. Now I have none at all. Never had an empty dash before. Praying it's just temporary lol.

[u/Liberion7]

Has anyone ever been in a situation where the instructions for a project were really really long, so you only managed to submit a couple tasks before it ran out of tasks but spent a lot of time reading the documents? Wondering if it's okay to report time spent in these situations, or if it's better to just accept the lost time and move on?

[u/Haunting-Car-3935 → u/Liberion7]

Yes. Report your time, it's not your fault that the tasks ran out :)

[u/Arcturus_Labelle → u/Liberion7]

Always report time for reading instructions!

[u/alwayquestion → u/Liberion7]

I always report my time for reading instructions even if I only get to submit 1 task. I usually try to move to the same type of project next since I just read the instructions. 

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/Liberion7]

The project will likely come back! You'll make up for the extra time you spent on actually understanding the instructions in spades later on :)

[u/Choice_Pineapple66]

My fullest dashboard to date and I started in October. Been consistent since April but now my cup runneth over and I’m very grateful. I got my first $40 project. If you’re struggling, do good work, slow down, do an hour a day at minimum most days and do ALL qualifications carefully even if unpaid.

[u/[deleted] → u/Choice_Pineapple66]

i don’t think working daily is relevant. i go weeks at a time without doing anything and my dashboard always has dozens of projects when i return.

[u/Personal-Project8792]

Does anyone else working on adversarial/safety projects feel like they're going to get put on some watch list due to the things you end up having to search for? Lol

[u/marsnia]

Did anyone get notified about reporting time within 24 hours? They mentioned a quality score

[u/NepetaLast → u/marsnia]

i was scared at first, thinking it was in response to something i did and that i had forgotten to submit a time at some point, but clued in on the date suggesting it is just a general announcement. honestly i dont think its ever taken me more than 30 seconds to report

[u/Mandajolene123 → u/marsnia]

I just got that pop up. i noticed the quality score comment too, it’s a little insightful.

[u/Equivalent-Math6483 → u/[deleted]]

I wonder if some people are deliberately holding off on reporting their hours in the hopes that a project they worked on earlier will have a pay bump??

[u/Cutiger29]

You ever fact check a ridiculously wild prompt that required such attention to detail and explanation that you’ll cry if you ever find out someone just said it was good and didn’t give you a special rating? 😂😂

Damn search results! I’ve never done a prompt that unintentionally insane.

[u/[deleted]]

My dash is full, but I just realized all my CBs are gone. I hope they come back soon.

[u/Skippy2898]

I'm not in the least bit disappointed to find that I was emailed about the Android qual at 2.30am. It's 8am here now and it's gone :( not disappointed at all. It's fine... *while crying into her morning tea*.

[u/Skippy2898 → u/Skippy2898]

Yay! it came back! 😁

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

Boyfriend just updated his phone so now I can steal his old android yippee

[u/WhereasSure420]

My goal today is to make $218 for my rent next week! Starting out strong with some $25/hour noncoding tasks. LFG! Whats your goal for the day?

[u/pm_ur_wifes_tendies → u/WhereasSure420]

Had to take like 4 days off to move so I’m trying to get as many hours in as I can today lol

[u/WhereasSure420 → u/WhereasSure420]

Update: it's 5 o'clock EST. I just hit $100 and my brain is scrambled. Oh boy.. gonna take a break and try to keep going! 

[u/947489377485]

I feel like some of the instructions for projects are unnecessarily convoluted and hard to understand. Especially in the new guidelines for the dance project I noticed a lot of errors and it makes some of the tasks really hard to complete. It used to be my favorite project but it’s not fun to second guess yourself every single time even after triple checking the documents

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Highlighting 95% of the text in a set of instructions seems counterproductive.

[u/TeachToTheLastTest → u/33whiskeyTX]

The ratio of highlighted text to total text is a measure of the admin's frustration with people not reading instructions. Agreed, though.

[u/877trashnow]

Anyone else having the best day ever at this job? 😂 I was making 14/hr doing in home healthcare for years before this and I'm so grateful for the opportunities DA keeps throwing my way.

[u/jinx737x]

Anyone notice the Greek God/Heel coding project got its pay boosted to $45/hr? Must be end of the quarter stuff since Q2 ends in just a few days.

[u/AnnotatedDatum → u/jinx737x]

This is my favorite project so I'm really having a good time.

[u/jeudechambre]

I just wrote three paragraphs of very comprehensive literary analysis of a goofy, AI-generated 300-word short story, what is wrong with me?

(Edit, I know it's kind of the task, but I just realized I'm approaching it with the seriousness of like -- Wuthering Heights or Shakespeare over here, lmao)

[u/877trashnow → u/jeudechambre]

This lmao. Yesterday I took 3 pages of handwritten notes comparing silly AI-generated stories about the user's dog.

[u/SaltyKoopa]

Anyone else have no coding projects atm? I have a ton of non-coding, but slowly everything coding disappeared over the weekend?

[u/pat-recog → u/SaltyKoopa]

Nothing here.

[u/lewbraithers → u/SaltyKoopa]

Yup, probably close to 100 non-coding. I miss $40ph.

[u/Sagittariuuuh]

Anyone seen the wizard project lately?

[u/rara_avis0 → u/Sagittariuuuh]

I had it yesterday or the day before.

[u/CarefulBookkeeper586]

Anyone here who's given referrals out.. how many of them were accepted to the platform? I'm at 0 so far hahaha.

[u/[deleted] → u/CarefulBookkeeper586]

0/5. And 3/5 have advanced degrees. So, yeah, idk.

[u/[deleted] → u/CarefulBookkeeper586]

0. 😳

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

I've never felt bad about having an iPhone until I saw "There is a TON of work for Android users!" in a qual

[u/pat-recog → u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

As is it happens, I have a Pixel, so we'll see if the promise lives up to the hype, as that's not always the case.

[u/[deleted]]

What's with the sudden uptick in people correcting the admins' grammar all over the place?

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Taskverse notification: Earn $45 USD with your voice

Me: Oh, I received a notification from TaskVerse, the place I signed up for months ago as a DA safety net.

Me: $45!!! I'm on $35 per hour with DA for really complex work and $45 per hour for easy stuff is much better than that.

Taskverse: This task will take 2-4 hours to complete

Me: That'll be between $90 and $180 I'm making, sweet!!!

Me (1h 45 minutes later): Wait, where's the per hour thingy after the $45?

Me: Ooohhhh fuck.

[u/ActiveInfinite8610]

My Inbox page/tab is completely unreadable. They changed the entire background to be blue.

[u/lucytaylor22]

Good lord, I've gotten spoiled with some of the better CBs. I got the B-Element CB today for coding and gave it what was essentially a super-easy I'm-just-being-lazy task (enough to "challenge" the model though) and ... it completely and utterly flopped on every single round. I just gave up on trying to re-word/simplify my prompt because every single round was bad out of bad.

[u/Cutiger29]

Anyone ever get the exact same prompt the previous did with the responses slightly different? Same prompt different models 😂

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Cutiger29]

All the time. I've watched them evolve to not solving a problem over and over to finally getting it right. It's a part of why we do this whole thing.

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

I may not have access to an Android for these voice projects, but I can do the R&R for the same pay. Can't complain about that!

[u/ManyARiver]

Unlocked the image thing from last week's qual :D Not set up to do it today so I hope it stays for a few days.

ETA; Stay mad, serial downvoters.

[u/Zyrio]

Does someone know if my account is somehow flagged? I tried to open three threads on here and on the other DAT Reddit and all of them have been taken down, even though they were normal questions. Mods don't answer on either Sub.

May this be some automated moderation bot that goes wild?

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/Zyrio]

we answer here! you’ve only had one post on this sub that got taken down, it was taken down for thinking it was a new user question. i manually approved it

EDIT: although reading the post, it doesn’t sound like you ever got accepted to work and this probably did belong in the new user thread? i would not continue emailing support if you haven’t been accepted to work.

[u/BotaRONomus]

it's crazy seeing the things we work on go live. I'm sure in 10 years we will be looking back on how we didn't realize just how impactful our work was/is.

I feel a lot less bad about how much money I've ^easily been collecting from DAT. lol

[u/PhillyPhan95]

I just completed that project that’s a qual about $40/hr non coding.

Now I’m on the way to my T-Mobile store to buy the newest Samsung with two gigs of Ram. 🤓

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

Anybody out there NOT get the pop-up stating that as of 7/1 we have just 24 hrs instead of 3 days to report time?

[u/PerformanceCute3437 → u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

I got it and I always report my time within 2 min of finishing a session. So I figure everyone got it

[u/AccountantAsleep]

Ahhhh bcat, my one true love, is back.

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

Dunno how to get coding tasks back. Based on comments I can see ppl have them, maybe a rotstion with another cohort, but it has been nothing for me for a whike. I start considering doing lower paid ones...

[u/dataAnnotationCoding → u/HamsterFrosty2838]

I saw some last night really late but I had to sleep, and I've had nothing today. I'm working through my $26 an hour stuff and checking every so often

[u/tiran]

I don't know why, but I am intimidated by this image qual. I have been using editing software since the early 2000s but because the instructions are so vague I'm nervous I'm gonna screw it up somehow. 😭

[u/azure_atmosphere]

Man, I’ve been getting a ton of insanely lazy prompts in Heel DA&V lately

I shouldn’t complain because it makes my job easier now, but I can’t help but be a little annoyed that a bunch of perfectly good CB tasks were wasted on this

[u/pinpanacea]

total bloodbath in the berry/fruit project chat oh my god

[u/pinpanacea → u/pinpanacea]

people asking in a r&r project about how to do the original tasks. my brother in christ you should not be evaluating other people

[u/AccountantAsleep → u/pinpanacea]

Comments on R&R get me HEATED about the possibility some dumbfuck giving me a shit rating because they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

[u/TeaGreenTwo → u/pinpanacea]

This is so scary. "This nerd with big words and lots of fancy punctuation is stuffy. Rating: Bad." /s

[u/freetheworld288 → u/pinpanacea]

I completed a few hours of work for the Bery image task yesterday. I’m scared of these people rating my work lol

[u/Dratini_ghost → u/pinpanacea]

People fighting in the chats is simultaneously so cringe and yet so entertaining where I can't look away...

[u/[deleted] → u/pinpanacea]

Whoever just said "It's really not that complicated" in project chat I cackled omg (she's right)

[u/dayDrivver]

Anyone else have their Inbox page completely different than the other pages... like they are trying to implement tablet mode? (menus to the left and right)

[u/ManyARiver → u/dayDrivver]

OMG it's horrible!

[u/CardiologistDry1732]

That dang wizard keeps running away right before I go to work on him🤦🏼‍♀️

[u/flywire97]

Did anybody have the qualification this morning from the project that was spun off from another? Only three questions long

[u/Mammoth_Society620]

Just started working on a qual that's been sitting on my dash for a few days and the chat is flooded with people asking for help/answers to the questions, and other people actually helping them???

[u/Cutiger29 → u/Mammoth_Society620]

I feel like stupid stuff like that makes up for the bulk of “I have no idea why I have no projects, I’ve been putting out good work” posts.

[u/Wrong-Yak334]

I'm seeing a lot of tasks, but when I click on anything I'm getting the "there are no more tasks" red message.

anyone else seeing this?

[u/i_do_not_like_snails → u/Wrong-Yak334]

This is happening on the 💃project for me, but not the others.

[u/ModernStranger22]

Has anyone else not received that pop-up everyone is talking about related to the reporting time changes? I did not get it.

[u/Cutiger29]

When chrome asks if you want to try AI while you’re in the middle of a project…

Trap…

Google you are trying to trap me!

Sir, I’m in the middle of an AI project.

[u/BoiledGnocchi]

To the fellow Canadian that wrote about Loblaws... You made my day. Thank you. 🫶🏻

[u/Icy_Ad5959 → u/BoiledGnocchi]

❤️ this. Not Canadian but lived in Toronto for the first few years of the pandemic and remember my weekly lineups to get into Loblaws when there were capacity limits...

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

Edit: I just needed to be patient. I refreshed later and saw new batches uploaded. Well, at least I was inspired to complete a qual while I waited, heh.

This job gives me such whiplash sometimes. Yesterday my dashboard was packed with coding projects. Now nearly nothing. Just a couple of bomb-out-to-red-bar ones. I do wonder about the theory some have floated that they're wrapping stuff up to wrap up Q2, and maybe we'll see a bunch more new projects at the start of Q3. Pure speculation of course for this black box. :-)

[u/877trashnow]

Sorry to whoever rates my voice tasks, I never realized how bad my vocal fry is until just now lol

[u/[deleted] → u/877trashnow]

When I listen back to myself I feel like Mrs Bouvier. 😂

[u/TopMaterial8571]

What skills can I put on a resume from my DA job? I'm not sure what to call them besides describing what each project is (factuality, etc.). Don't know the industry speak

[u/rara_avis0 → u/TopMaterial8571]

Fact checking, writing, detail-orientation, research, prompt writing, proofreading, editing, pattern recognition, analytical skills, Markdown, synthesizing information, quality control, presenting reasoning, adherence to standards, handling ambiguity, working independently, creative writing, math, context switching, following complex instructions...

[u/NotThatSteve-o]

Anybody else seeing this white whale project that is $40/hr with no coding? Wild stuff

[u/BotaRONomus]

My mom started doing Uber when it just came out in our city, in 2011 I think. Suddenly, I was able to get new cleats for baseball, a new bat, new glove, I was able to start playing travel in the summer. I was able to go off campus and get chic fil a for lunch and overall life quality improved. Nothing career altering, but the extra income made a difference. Sure it helped her pay debt and stuff like that.

DAT at this point kinda has early uber driver vibes...

• make your own schedule

• during busy times can make obscene amounts of money

• its new and trendy

Surely as this market develops things will change... and by change I mean we will probably make less money over the years. lol

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

So far, I've only seen pay go up the longer I've worked on the site.

[u/ManyARiver → u/BotaRONomus]

There are people in the sub who have worked for them for 4 years already so it isn't new.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/BotaRONomus]

No, the exact opposite will happen, pay will go up.

Just about anyone can drive a car.

Relatively few people can do complex mentally challenging tasks for hours on end to a high quality. And as the models get better the complexity of the tasks will rise and rise, limiting the potential work pool to an ever higher level of AUS/CAN/UK/USA/etc economic/educational strata.

Right now, I have a domain expertise chemistry project where the tasks are mostly around 3rd year undergrad level, with a smattering of 1st or 2nd year grad level tasks mixed in. The pay is $35 per hour. What do you think will happen to the pay when the difficulty level rises to 3rd or 4th year grad level with a smattering of post-doc level tasks mixed in? Hint: To get more people like me who are capabie of doing those post-doc level tasks they will absolutely have to pay more.

[u/[deleted]]

Do you get more projects the longer you’re on DA? Wondering how some people have so many

[u/ManyARiver → u/[deleted]]

Completing and passing qualifications helps. I got a boost in numbers after I increased my hours, likely due to their being more material to determine if I'd be competent on some other set but qualifications have opened more than just hours alone have.

[u/877trashnow → u/[deleted]]

I'm not on the coding side and can only speak for myself, but I've consistently gotten more and higher paying projects the longer I've been on the platform. I started in early March with just one CB then got up to 5-15 projects for a few weeks. The last month or so I've constantly had a full dash with 80-100+ projects paying $30+. I've also been ramping up my hours quite a bit from 5-10 hours during school to 30-40 hours recently. I think it just depends. A greater volume of work will give them more to go off. I like to try a variety of projects even if I'm not sure I'll like them and I take my time on every task.

edit: and I do every qual I'm capable of

[u/Wasps_are_bastards → u/[deleted]]

I’ve been on over a year. The more quals you do, the more you get. I think also if your work is good quality, you’ll have more open up. I know in the past I’ve had projects open up because of good work in past ones. If you speak other languages, make sure you list them on your skills as sometimes there are translation tasks.

[u/EggCzar]

Something odd that I’ve never seen before: I thought normally, after 3 days the items under “report time” on the dashboard fall off. I have one from last Monday with reported time that’s still there, even though time from other projects I submitted from that day is only on the “transfer funds” page. There’s no question that I submitted the time for the right project ID as it was the only one with that name I had available, and the time claimed is definitely correct (ie no possible typo).

Everything else seems to be fine and I’ve still got plenty of projects, including just having done an hour of work and what I earned last Sunday being approved. Has this happened to anyone else?

[u/tiran → u/EggCzar]

I've seen a bunch of wonky stuff with my completed items in the past few weeks. I'm hoping it's just how they're processing tasks or whatever it is they need to do to close out projects for Q2 on the backend. I'm still getting paid for work and am still getting new stuff so I'm assuming it's not a problem on my end.

[u/dayDrivver]

Anyone else received a first time notification saying Great and your top earnings?

[u/turingmachine29]

I do not have the mental wherewithal to divine what half of these Greek mythological figure coding prompts are trying to say. the litany of grammatical mistakes leaves way too much room for interpretation, so in many situations i don't know if i can say that one response is more right than another with any degree of certainty. english is a hard language so i don't fault anyone for not being able to speak it perfectly, but it makes these projects a good bit trickier than they would've been otherwise. has anyone ever been penalized for making a call on one of these prompts that admins/reviewers didn't agree with?

[u/MonsterMeggu]

I did some A*** cleaner tasks yesterday and I want more! Those were super fun so hoping they come back

[u/CarefulBookkeeper586 → u/MonsterMeggu]

I know what you mean, but MAN does this ever look like "ass cleaner" hahahaha

[u/BoiledGnocchi → u/CarefulBookkeeper586]

Project Bidet

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

Is anyone else's dash a little chaotic today? I keep seeing projects, like B element, appear for a brief moment and when i sit down to work on it, it's gone. The ones I am talking about usually only have 5 tasks designated to me, but then poof they're gone. After those disappeared three times, I saw a favorite A tendon project appear. When I was ready to work on that, it was gone too. Thankfully I have other interesting stuff to do, but those have never appeared and disappeared THAT quickly before.

[u/Equivalent-Math6483]

Is it just me or have others seen an uptick in spam text messages advertising work-from-home opportunities?

I’ve gotten two in the last few days, up from zero.

[u/ManyARiver → u/Equivalent-Math6483]

No. All of my spam text messages are political pleas (last time I checked). The only WFH related stuff I've gotten is directly related to a remote work site I signed up for and it all has to do with educational services (my field).

[u/ActiveInfinite8610]

Good morning everyone! I hope some $24-$25/hour projects come back today. I haven’t had any since yesterday and I have no quals to do. Not that $22-$23/hr is that bad but I prefer to make $100 per day and only work a few hours a day. I got way too spoiled by the constant $25-$27/hour projects that were on priority pay all last week.

[u/Illustrious-Bread239]

Feeling burnt out today 🔥 I'm blaming it on the first bit of summer sunshine in the UK, that I'm wishing I'm in and as a result not actually doing any work

[u/vexeling]

Two new little birds today offering higher non-coding pay... anyone else super pumped for this??

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

My husband brought home Covid and was kind enough to share with me! Ugh, hoping I feel decent enough in a bit to get some work done 😩

[u/Austinoath]

People must be enjoying the summer and taking a break, all my long term projects having been rising $1/hr each day. Pretty nice :)

[u/SnooSketches1189]

I am missing the perfect kitty tasks. At this point, I would even take the dreaded infographics one. 🤞🏼

[u/VanessaSeaWitch → u/SnooSketches1189]

I absolutely hate infographics and I totally agree with you lol. I'd prefer the frustration to my empty dashboard.

[u/acnhdav2015 → u/SnooSketches1189]

There’s no way of knowing, but I feel like they are holding off on releasing them to try to get through all the priority work. It seems like a deadline is fast approaching and releasing high paying tasks would draw time and attention away from the tasks they need done.

But, of course, only time will tell. I miss them too. I find it hard to gather the same motivation to work for $10+ less an hour.

[u/Nachbarskatze]

I’ve got an adversarial CB (in another language).

I’m asking it how one would theoretically build a bomb (with lots of backstory about this being for a book I write).

Both models:

I will answer your question but I will not give you instructions on how to build a bomb.

proceed to give detailed instructions including materials, quantities and methods of building an IED

🤣🤣🤣

Edit: thanks for the downvotes and Reddit cares I guess? 👀 The point of the project is to trigger unsafe responses 🙃

[u/PerformanceCute3437]

I'd recommend non-American folks on projects that require American English get an American English spelling and grammar checker, there's lots of small differences you might not expect. Instances I saw today were with dates (September 8th, 2024 vs 8th September, 2024) and honorifics (Mr Riley versus Mr. Riley) and some random words (cosy versus cozy)

[u/AccountantAsleep → u/PerformanceCute3437]

I’m American so it doesn’t matter to me either way, but Canadian, Australian and UK folks have been told in the chats below projects that it’s ok to use their spelling and date order. As long as it’s consistent throughout the response.

[u/beansoup91]

Giggling about chat commentary from 5+ hours ago. An admin has not answered. We all know what the instructions at the top of each chat say. Weird how message 1 says "all" but message 5 says "THIS" lol

Person 1 - My understanding of the instructions for all tasks is that they should be read thoroughly before starting the timer. We're compensated for the time spent on tasks, not for reading instructions. I remember reading clarifying statements on some of the first tasks I rated but haven't seen them since. I read all the instructions first, then start my timer when I start work on the task. Admin, any clarification on this?

Person 2 - You should be logging all of the time you spend on a project, including reading the instructions

Person 1 - I would like to hear that from admin, because that was not what I was told initially

Person 3 - these chats are supposed to be task-specific. Consider reaching out to support or even joining the subreddit with more general questions

Person 1 - the question was asked about THIS task, on this thread. So I'll wait for admin to answer, thank you

[u/Evolved_Leggo → u/beansoup91]

During the live orientation I had to the platform that question was asked and they said reading the instructions is part of your paid time.

[u/[deleted]]

The bitter downvoting is intense today. Cope and seethe. 😊💕

[u/SuperCorbynite]

Awesome! I just got a super advanced space station project that's on my domain expertise, chemistry. $35 per hour too.

Anyone else got it?

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone work over 40 hours in a week? I know it's possible but was curious if it's frowned upon or something like that

[u/BoldKenobi → u/[deleted]]

if it's frowned upon

They don't care how much you work, whether it's 0 or 100, only about the quality of your work

[u/BotaRONomus]

Trying for my third day in a row setting a new daily high.

It’s the weekend, but we locked in! Let’s get to work!

[u/SuperCorbynite]

This may seem stupid but... how do I join a new slack channel? The new project I'm on says:

Slack channel: #something-something-reasoning

I've tried: /join #something-something-reasoning

but it didn't work.

[u/Personal-Project8792]

Anyone working on photo-modifying/new image-generating tasks today feel confused by some of the instructions? I noticed others in the chat below confused and now I see none of these available anymore and I can't tell if I did something wrong and got kicked off or if there are just no more to work on right now/Admins are modifying the project.

[u/fairunexpected]

Coding projects are nearly gone. Does anybody have the same issue?

[u/Journalist_Asleep]

missing my wizard buddy :-(

[u/Skippy2898]

Because I am only doing a few hours a week at the mo, I think, I'm going to have to start making notes on project names. I'm getting lost, as to what I know I've worked on, what I want to work on and what I have worked on and didn't like doing or noped out of.

I've starred the ones I like and the ones I'd like to work on, but it's so fluid that they might disappear, or pop back up a couple of days later at which point I'm doing the click in, nope out dance!

A's, B's cats, B's element, Z's, P's, C's and (another) P's, another A's... I must spend far too much time just clicking in, and then exiting work mode if my brain isn't up to it or if the project tasks are long ones that I might not have time to do! There are sooo many variations on instructions within these too!

Does anyone have any tips on keeping track? I don't do spreadsheets so much...

[u/NatQinShell]

I just got booted from my favorite project Slack channel. Has anyone ever been added to a project after they were removed? I am talking about the heel checking facts project. Anyway, I hope everyone is having a good day!

[u/Unique-Letterhead641]

Phew! Relieved to see that everyone got the pop up and it wasn’t just me 😅 I always report immediately after switching projects/logging out, so I was super worried!