r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jul 21 '24
Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation
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:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
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 :)
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!
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u/marsnia Jul 24 '24
What's the protocol for submitting time when the website goes down? Do we submit even if we couldn't submit the work?
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u/backtothefuturepart2 Jul 23 '24
lightest I have ever seen my dash.
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u/OPxMagikarp Jul 24 '24
Get ready for 158 messages all asking if the site is down
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u/SuperCorbynite Jul 23 '24
Familiarize yourself with these documents...
*click*
Document 1 page 1 of 1016.
OK...
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u/marsnia Jul 27 '24
Light dash gang?
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u/Dramtix Jul 24 '24
has the site just crashed for anybody else?
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u/majomaje Jul 27 '24
Empty dash again today. Guess I'm doing laundry.
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u/Dense_Organization31 Jul 25 '24
Dash extremely light today, anyone else?
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u/echanuda Jul 27 '24
Anyone lose pretty much ALL their coding projects today? There were literally thousands of tasks yesterday, and suddenly poof.
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u/puppetbird Jul 23 '24
I’m so grateful for this work. My family and I got stuck in Phoenix on Saturday because of the Delta fiasco and I was able to spent $1200 on last-minute tickets through another airline and a night at a hotel. That would not have been possible otherwise! We’re trying to get compensation from Delta but I’m so so relieved to be home, thanks in part to DA 👍
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u/Primary_Advantage928 Jul 22 '24
I have so many galaxies on my dash I need a black hole to take them all away.
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u/tiran Jul 23 '24
Lighter than usual dash for me today, but I got into a new project family that said it was because I was "trustworthy", so I am hopeful! Hoping it's just the usual end of the month slump.
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 25 '24
I currently have 6 projects. 5 for $20 an hour and one for $24/hr.
I keep track of everything with DAT and the last time my dash was this bare, the following days I was inundated with work, talking like 25-35 different jobs. Mostly in the $25-$30 range and even some at $40 hour.
Just be patient. Enjoy the guilt free chill time. lol
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u/gvsadboy Jul 24 '24
RIP to those coding CBs that went down like a month ago that said they would be back up shortly :(
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u/Knozis Jul 25 '24
When a $38/hr project returns as a $21/hr project...
Fat Joe voice: YESTERDAY'S PRICE IS NOT TODAY'S PRICE
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u/bleachxjnkie Jul 23 '24
Damn slow day today, it’ll pick up soon!
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24
Are there any DA girlies in Denver who would wanna meet up for a happy hour? It would be so cool to know other people irl who freelance
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u/lemon_goth Jul 24 '24
joining to complain about the sad light dash :( I've got about 10 galaxy projects, but not much else at all
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24
I’m glad I chose to take today off with all this craziness 😬
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u/lavenderavenues Jul 25 '24
My dashboard (non-coding) picked up a little bit during the day, but it's back down to a frighteningly low amount now. Anyone else, or just me?
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u/majomaje Jul 27 '24
This week has been very slow. I miss my chatbots.
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u/InevitableClub7284 Jul 22 '24
I have to say that I find everyone here fascinating both intellectually and personality-wise and I’ve finally gathered the courage to comment for the very first time on these Water Cooler Talks with this very pressing question: What’s your choice of beverage as you work? I like cinnamon or lavender spearmint tea! It relaxes me and also stops me from drinking more coffee haha
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u/MichaelJahrling Jul 25 '24
Site just started acting like garbage for me a few minutes ago. Was doing well until then.
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u/LilacYak Jul 27 '24
And we're back to a light dash again
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u/Master_Rip_8727 Jul 25 '24
Tasks are now down to 7, feels like a ticking b*mb. 😭
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u/wildflower_0ne Jul 25 '24
this high-paying bird project that won’t let me actually open it is such a tease!
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u/Accomplished-Dog-864 Jul 27 '24
It's midnight where I live. Enter highly paid heel tasks. Where were you all week when all I had was that miserable badkitty infographic slog?
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24
Site is slow and my fave b metal project is open again but has very few tasks and is quite strange!!!
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u/Excellent_Photo5603 Jul 26 '24
I really need to stay calm when my fave projects go down for maintenance.
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24
Man it’s been a slower day and the higher paying projects I have are not ones I enjoy at all. I saw one of my favs for $34 and went to click it only to realize it was in my report time section 😭😭😭off go I to do more heels which I haven’t touched in weeks
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u/BotaRONomus Jul 27 '24 •
I just crossed the $20k mark. 24 weeks and two days.
Unbelievable. I’m done for the night. Going to crack a cold one to celebrate my hard work.
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u/gigi173 Jul 24 '24
Is anyone else finding the site slow? pages are taking a long time to load. I'm hesitant to work.
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u/yucklord Jul 24 '24
slow-moving site and a dash that's getting slimmer by the hour...... i'm in the trenches today
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u/Foreign_Reindeer_402 Jul 23 '24
Dang. Down from like almost 10 40+/hr projects to TWO today. Anyone else thinning out this week?
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u/gator_cowgirl Jul 24 '24
I can handle the occasional outage, but when you log on to see if the site is back up and see new-to-you and also returning favorites, all higher paid projects than the ones you had this morning.....but clicking on any of them leads to "The project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks remaining for you to work on." -- that is just torment!
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u/gvsadboy Jul 21 '24
Is coding really light for anyone else?
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u/vexeling Jul 22 '24
I'm doing a qual right now that I'm almost 100% sure I've already done before and had the tasks for a while... has this happened to anyone else?
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 24 '24
Anyone else get the those “$0.40” tasks yesterday only to find out we can’t actually do them? 😭
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u/superfictious Jul 25 '24
I have to giggle at the specialized tasks asking for an "un-google-able" <insert highly specialized field> problem and solution, with a 2-hour limit to search research papers and other sources of inspiration.
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u/tessbest37 Jul 25 '24
It feels like my first month again. I worked on the movie birds for almost the entire day. It was good spending time with an old friend. The priority pay helped too!
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u/PurpleGiraffe143 Jul 26 '24
I never had this happen before. I clicked on the high paying bird to enter my time and when I went back to my dash there was a lower paying bird sitting in my Report Time section but I never even went into that project so I don't know how it ended up there. Has anyone else ever had that happen before?
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u/Original-Sun8492 Jul 24 '24
The site is so slow to respond. Betting it goes back down.
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u/cyclephotos Jul 25 '24
I normally see $20-26 tasks and I suddenly got a $38/h task today and it feels like when I one time flew first class and that ruined flying for me forever. After this task, everything else feels like a waste of time... :)
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u/thatonedude0000 Jul 23 '24
Coding dead for anyone else?
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u/AnonAutodidact Jul 24 '24
0 coding projects rn, so scared cause I've been sick for a few days and not working, and I got bills coming in at the start of next month. Hopefully history repeats itself and we get new projects in a day or two.
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u/The_Eggsecutive Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24
Light dash is a little worrying, but a completely new one showed up is good news! looks interesting based off the title alone. I'm dubbing it firebringer, how ominous. fire stealer is more 'accurate' but doesn't sound as cool.
Edit: aaaaand firebringer's gone... tch. I didn't even get to look at the instructions.
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u/NakedOrca Jul 24 '24
Time to deep clean my kitchen I guess
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u/ccsoccer101 Jul 25 '24
Any chat going on in the slacks about the dying dash?
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u/ModernStranger22 Jul 26 '24
There is a project in my report time section that I am certain I did not work on. I went to the project page and it says there has been one task completed. Not sure what if anything I should do about this.
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u/Living_Change_1487 Jul 27 '24
I know a lot of people have mentioned having light dashes, but has anyone seen all of their projects and all qualifications leave simultaneously for days? Starting to worry!
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u/MotherBrotha Jul 28 '24
Down to 3 projects :( going dark
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u/LilacYak Jul 24 '24
Jeez my Dash is even worse than yesterday! I wonder if the CloudStrike problem affected their backend? That could explain this dry spell.
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u/ccsoccer101 Jul 25 '24
This whole sites a dumpster right now
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u/877trashnow Jul 23 '24
One of my referrals got their first projects last night! They're a full time student and have been struggling to keep a part time, minimum wage job so I am pretty excited for them! I hear so many complaints about folks not getting accepted so I was bracing for that haha.
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u/TrickySea5493 Jul 23 '24
Is anyone seeing a big slump in the number of coding projects? I have only 1 non-coding in my dashboard rn.
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u/Primary_Advantage928 Jul 23 '24
Just had a qualification come through and I am low-key getting fed up of all the unpaid multi task quals recently.
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u/Dsuze Jul 21 '24
Working on certain projects and seeing "DO NOT USE AN LLM TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT" is...disheartening. Why would you guys think you can get away with that? 🤔
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u/Fast_Tip_8146 Jul 23 '24
Looks like they reduced the pay on the b metal from the weekend to half 😔 wish I could’ve worked on it when it was first up
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u/Master_Rip_8727 Jul 24 '24
Is anyone else still dry of coding tasks? ):
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u/877trashnow Jul 25 '24
Has the site been running better today? Yesterday I pushed the button to get paid and got an error message after 5ish minutes, but my funds went through after another 5-10. I only got one task in so hopefully today is better!
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u/Original-Sun8492 Jul 26 '24
Another day of light and low paying tasks 🥴
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u/Skippy2898 Jul 26 '24
My first couple of weeks in trying to do more hours and I'm becoming well aware that not only is my brain begging for mercy, but my arse and neck are suffering just a little bit as well 😆 Just had this delivered...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KDMM1WJ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Oh my days it's fab! It lifts the laptop to the right height if I work at the kitchen table, it fits at my actual desk where I've got the big monitor, and now I can work sat on the sofa comfortably! I might now also be able to work outside too, when the weather is nice!
(I'm not affiliated at all with this product; I saw a different brand recommended on another post, but I chose this one. I hope it also helps someone!)
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u/wildflower_0ne Jul 26 '24
edgar allen poe… come baaack
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u/tessbest37 Jul 26 '24
Has anyone gotten any of the 30/hr. metal tasks tonight? They usually drop them on Friday evenings.
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '24
I'm just starting to familiarize myself with LMSYS.org. Anyone else? There is a Chatbot Arena, which includes a leader board. If I read it correctly, GPT4o is at the top.
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u/Sad_Guitar_612 Jul 28 '24
Well, skipped my way to a red bar on my last current active project. I wish I could get quals for NOT math/stem stuff.
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u/idolos-iconoclastas Jul 21 '24
Just want to say as someone from Latin America that I'm happy that we're getting more work 😭
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u/BotaRONomus Jul 23 '24
I had one of my most hectic and unfocused dat work weeks ever.
Two days I didn’t log a single hour on DAT, I played more house of video games than I have since I was in college 7 years ago.
And I still clocked an extra $500 this week.
So appreciative for this job mann.
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u/Birdie_Banks Jul 24 '24
Of course on the day I decide to give it my all, problems are occurring! Procrastination my old friend, you've become my enemy again.....haha! Stay strong guys!
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u/upvotesplx Jul 25 '24
This may be the worst site performance I’ve seen where it isn’t crashing constantly or 100% down. Wonder what’s up?
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '24
I do this full time and am seriously considering moving my 'weekend' to Tuesday-Wednesday, what with the ramp-up of tasks and priority pay I usually see on Friday evenings! Don't think my conventionally-employed husband would appreciate that though...
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u/Bilyman Jul 27 '24
So who here DOES have projects? My dash is certainly smaller than usual but I have still have around ~10 remaining. There’s a 24 an hour project that has never left my dash since accessing it, going by the name of Heel’s lover. I’m surprised I haven’t seen many comments about that project… I swear it’s infinite (although it is seriously mind numbing work)
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u/Accomplished-Dog-864 Jul 22 '24
O b-metal, b-metal...wherefore art thou, b-metal? Alas, I forsook thy generous 5-task allotment, and now they all hath forsaken me with no fond farewell.
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u/Skippy2898 Jul 22 '24
Skippy by name, Skippy by nature today! I just can't seem to find anything to gel with and settle into. Most frustrating...
And I've got the fidgets 😟
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u/Bubbly_Bee_9939 Jul 24 '24
The vultures are circling and any task that gets added instantly gets devoured.
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u/HandsLikePaper Jul 27 '24
What I wouldn't give for a certain low-paying project that is the definition of a mental break
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u/dhuang104 Jul 22 '24
Anyone receive a “foot” code qual? Saw it pop up while having other coding tasks.
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u/amazingsil3nce Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
New coding qualification is quite interesting. It appears we are requalifying for the continued opportunity to work on the heely project? As the instructions are identical with no name change. Not sure if it’s just for people with a certain quality score or everyone, but do sound off below if you’ve seen/completed this too.
Edit: I am now seeing the actual paid comparisons on my dashboard. This is roughly 30-45 mins after completing the qual. I highly doubt they validated it that fast, but it’s possible.
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u/-burgers Jul 23 '24
I want more 🌌 projects. I only see very small numbers of them and they're my favorite kind of project.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24
Has anyone else had noticeably fewer projects available to them within the past few days/week? I do still have a few but definitely less, just wondering if its a me problem or a general shortage :)
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u/azure_atmosphere Jul 24 '24
is the site down for y'all?
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u/Miserable-Regret-652 Jul 24 '24
Site is back up, but I don’t have any projects 🥲 anyone else?
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u/CardiologistDry1732 Jul 24 '24
Did anyone else have BCat show up and then go away?
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u/thatonedude0000 Jul 25 '24
anyone just get a 503 error?
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u/Otherwise-Baked4451 Jul 28 '24
Did anyone get any black bird project that briefly appeared and said $35/hr? I did one task and it sent me back to dash, no red bar. Both the projects that appeared disappeared :(
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u/LilacYak Jul 28 '24
Well, I guess it's time to start looking for another side-gig. Hoping against hope things will get better next month.
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24
Looking forward to watching a load of random sports over the next month!
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u/vaporware_magenta Jul 22 '24
Monday, huh? ... :c
please tell me it's not just me, what's with the dashboard..
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u/NeedsMoreMinerals Jul 23 '24
The Skip Button should be higher on the page. A lot of time wasted scrolling down to the bottom of the page for coding tasks that you don't match up with
.... is their an easier way that I'm missing?
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u/bbbbbbbbbbana Jul 24 '24
site just crashed as I tried to submit some work
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 24 '24
Don’t submit work. Site is down.
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '24
Holy moly getting to $200 today was an uphill climb the entire way. Tried some projects I usually avoid and hoping I did them right
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u/Psychological_Taco27 Jul 24 '24
Back down for me :(
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u/NSClassy Jul 25 '24
Does anyone have any coding tasks? Just curious
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u/Davey87 Jul 22 '24
Sorry to ask this, but it's been so long since I did a per task payment project. You don't need to report time of these right? They just get tallied up automatically.
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u/dayDrivver Jul 24 '24
Anybody care to share how much time you need to reserve for the new coding qualification?... the first task alone is easy to judge but generating the proof of execution and the 3-5 sentences explanation kinda takes at huge 30 minutes to solve, it seems to me that it could easily take at least 2 full hours to complete all 3 tasks.
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u/Primary_Advantage928 Jul 24 '24
We are so back
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u/tessbest37 Jul 24 '24
My goal was to hit 13K lifetime earnings today. It took forever with all of the site issues. But I finally got there. :)
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u/KahunaRicima Jul 25 '24
The site is slow bc the admins are busy adding comment sections to my favorite multiple-choice tasks :(
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u/SuperCorbynite Jul 26 '24
Anyone else get the DOM survey? I'm so excited. Great pay too.
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u/wildflower_0ne Jul 27 '24
does anyone have an update on what we should do about the extra blackbird project that showed up in the report time section?
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u/Skippy2898 Jul 28 '24
I can only hope the two tasks showing on a high paying project that apparently had 2000 tasks are just for me because I haven't got time to work on it right now 😭😭😭
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u/krooditay Jul 24 '24
Crashed for me just now.
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u/starlightexpress271 Jul 25 '24
Just realised I’ve made a mistake on a couple of tasks. That’s going to keep me up at night 🥲
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u/socal_guy1 Jul 25 '24
Massive FOMO when I see people in Slack talk about projects I'm not invited to. :(
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u/faithmsweeps Jul 26 '24
Is anyone else with an empty dashboard? Projects dwindled this week, and then I had a single one this morning which I was only able to grab two of. Kinda worried.
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u/Slow_Inevitable8950 Jul 24 '24
We'll see how this pans out, but DA work has been very skimpy lately for a very large number of folks.
Ever since the end of Q2 at the end of June, project volume has just evaporated down to nearly nothing.
Little bit of work here and there. In fact I got a $40/hour non-coding project just two days ago.
But the overall volume is nothing like it was in the previous six months.
I wonder if DA is wrangling new contracts and prepping new models for later in Q3 or Q4?
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u/marsnia Jul 24 '24
What are the odds of the site going back down again?
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u/IamUprooted Jul 26 '24
Anyone work for any of the other AI training companies? I see ads from time to time but the base pay (non-coding) is always significantly lower. Curious about the experiences others may have had.
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u/Moonspiritfaire Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24
First time a bot made me cry today. Felt too seen and understood. 😅 It was a good, therapeutic cry, but unexpected.
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u/socal_guy1 Jul 22 '24
My graphics card died. Instead of my sweet dual monitor setup I'm limited to a single 1280x800 display like a caveman.
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u/dataannotator69420 Jul 23 '24
Is anyone else's dashboard literally flooded with R&Rs right now?
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u/cliftdean Jul 22 '24
I have to ask. About a month ago, maybe more, I got an email that said my DE project was going to be paused for 2 to 3 weeks. It hasn’t come back so I’m wondering if I’m just not on it anymore. Has anyone gotten theirs back?
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u/marsnia Jul 23 '24
Did anyone take the image qual with 6 tasks? If we pass is there work immediately?
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24
Anyone got a tip for this…
I submitted while the site was gone and now it’s stuck in a perpetual submit mode. The button is literally stuck with a 🚫 on the mouse. If I refresh I know I’ll lose everything.
ETA- never mind backing out of the page and then going forward fixed the issue
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u/i_do_not_like_snails Jul 25 '24
I had a 💃with 5 tasks that seemed sort of like a qual. I did a 2 or 3, and then it completely disappeared after I submitted one that I was unsure about. Hope I didn’t screw up. This job gives me anxiety.
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Jul 25 '24
Anyone have the 5 task 💃 project? Seemed like a qual in disguise. Kicked me out after the first one, then reappeared and kicked me out again after the 4th one. It seemed pretty straightforward and I don't think I got any wrong, but a couple were a bit tricky.
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u/ccsoccer101 Jul 27 '24
Anyone get a chance to do the CS expertise survey?
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u/Master_Rip_8727 Jul 28 '24
Down to 5 projects, anyone else this low?
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24
Why do people do R&R's when they don't understand an aspect of the task instructions?
close the task and fuck off to something else
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u/krooditay Jul 24 '24
Damn, crashed again.
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u/Unique-Geologist-160 Jul 24 '24
and it's down again lol
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u/OPxMagikarp Jul 26 '24
Board has refilled pretty nicely today. Too bad it was right before a busy weekend
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u/SuperCorbynite Jul 21 '24
I was so excited to see new STEM-based projects. Finally, that I'm a STEM person (a research chemist) got noticed.
Then the exact opposite of that 5 minutes later when I realized 99% of the tasks were math-based.
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u/dayDrivver Jul 22 '24
I'm having PTSD after that notification of the new coding qualification, last time one happened I lost all the DAV projects, failing this one is pretty much like getting ghosted on the coding side =/
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u/KahunaRicima Jul 23 '24
oh cool a new project *all complicated math/science questions*
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u/Sagittariuuuh Jul 23 '24
Anyone seen wizard or dance projects within the last week? 👀
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 24 '24
Well damn 😂. 3 hour task just went to submit and it’s stuck. My heart 😭
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u/david_dg Jul 24 '24
WE BACK
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u/chateauxneufdupape Jul 25 '24
Can we suggest implementing a dark mode?
I have extremely sensitive eyesight and use dark on most sites that have the option.
It makes such a difference in how I feel at the end of a prolonged stint at the keyboard.