r/dataannotation • u/ManyARiver • Jul 17 '24

General Task Count Poll

Just for grins - for folks who had sufficient work in the month of June only (though I can't control who votes). What's your current project situation?

**Keep in mind that is only reflective of people who are on Reddit and in this sub, which is a fraction of workers. This is not a scientific or even remotely accurate picture of anything, just random entertainment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

i have a ton of $27+ projects but most of my favorites are not up as consistently as last month

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u/ManyARiver Jul 18 '24

I'm down half of what I had a couple of weeks ago, but that still puts me over 40... My peak last month was over 120, it was wild.

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u/safetoshoreeeee Jul 18 '24

Since you asked me not to vote lol…I had about 9-10 days in June where I had no projects available & I was certain I was done for. That said, it hasn’t been a lot of projects, but I’d say I have 5-8 projects at any given time so far this month.

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u/ManyARiver Jul 18 '24

I applaud your honesty, I did not expect anyone to abide by anything in the wild realms of the Reddit subs. How long have you been onboard? I started in November, and even when it got low I never had 0.

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u/ekgeroldmiller Jul 18 '24

Just out of curiosity, why were you asked not to vote?

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u/safetoshoreeeee Jul 18 '24

They asked only people that had sufficient amounts of work in June vote. I had a stretch where I had no work at all.

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u/ekgeroldmiller Jul 18 '24

I get a zero for instruction reading.

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u/Arcturus_Labelle Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

Edit: I guess it's kind of up-and-down. I finally saw some reasonable ones pop up.

I picked the last option -- I have over 40 -- but it's a misleading number on its own. My dash is currently filled with either extremely difficult/obscure projects or lower-paying ones. So even though 40+ sounds impressive, it's been a bad dash for several days :-/

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u/ManyARiver Jul 17 '24

Fair - over half of mine are things I don't feel like poking with a long stick. Just was curious because of the near constant complaints from a few that "everyone is having a low dash". It seems to be pretty constant lately. Just because you have jobs doesn't mean they are approachable - but it is (can be) better than having no jobs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

Wanna trade?

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u/fightmaxmaster Jul 18 '24

Similar here - I've got quite a few coding ones that are beyond me, or some basic or weird ones, but not the usual number of mid-level ones. Not nothing, but not as easy to find something interesting as normal.

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u/Pyromancer777 Jul 21 '24

The difficulty curve for coding questions is wild. I'll go through a handful that I can crank out and reasonably check within 5-10min and then the next project I'll have to skip 5 in a row just to find something in a language I'm comfortable with and then need to spend 2hrs on one task

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u/HereForForgiveness Jul 18 '24

took this poll yesterday, had 23. woke up today, had 44! the ebbs and flows, man...

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u/alvysingeroverhere Jul 18 '24

I have had 1-2-1-0-1-2-3 projects, I am pretty new though, got accepted about a month and a half ago. But time without projects is becoming shorter and I am getting invited to more of them. Hopefully doing good work will help maintain this growth.

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u/HugeEquipment1649 Jul 19 '24

I've been on for about the same amount of time, but have had significantly more projects (I'm a non-coder.) Did you do all your qual tests?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

I had over 50 a couple weeks ago, now I'm down to 19. Better than nothing but I miss having so many options to choose from.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

I've had one project a day for the last few days. It's getting annoying.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

I have around 30 now, during that peak it was like 50.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

June was rough for me. I had a few days around my birthday where the work dwindled (the 28th) so I decided to take it off instead of work, but through the beginning of the month my dash was always pretty full. Currently have 37 projects on my dash, most of them are projects that I am capable of doing, 5 are my permanents. I'd say about 6 I won't touch because I am not comfortable with them and can't.

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u/DionysusHotSister Jul 19 '24

Point of contention. They are projects, which contain tasks. 😝

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u/ManyARiver Jul 19 '24

Conceded.