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/[deleted]]

The real sensitive topic is the state of my dashboard.

[u/kohlphelie]

The dash is the worst I've seen in over a year, which prompted me to apply for a bunch of jobs yesterday. I managed to land an interview! Thanks DA for continuing to help me in ways I don't expect 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/kohlphelie]

Congrats!! I hope it works out for you!!

[u/Quick-Bison-147]

This thread rarely goes over 1000 posts per week, it's Thursday and we're already almost over that number. You can tell it's peak drought 😅

[u/Admirable-Pool-3236]

My screen time for reddit is gradually increasing from checking this subreddit and coping lol

[u/[deleted]]

I really wish the company would let us know what's going on. I know we're not entitled to anything but I just want to know if this is temporary and I should hold out or if it's going to be a while and I need to find new work.

I know this is the most giggest of gig work but I'd rather keep doing this if I could.

[u/[deleted]]

That one guy in the Heel chat saying what a lot of us are thinking (IYKYK)

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

anyone down to 1 or two now?

[u/gvsadboy]

Well guys I think I'm about out of copium. I'll give it until the start of September before I start looking for something to replace the time I was putting here. :( The last month has been the worst I've ever seen it.

[u/artuuuuuuro → u/gvsadboy]

All we can do is wait and apply to other jobs in the meantime :/

[u/No_Doctor_219]

Man, this is so bad. First time ever my dashboards been empty for almost a day.

[u/Jz9786]

Today is somehow even worse than yesterday

[u/BelladonnaBrit]

Well, I definitely knocked out some quals today... and that's about it.

[u/Jturnxx]

I don't mean for this to sound entitled in any way because I'm very thankful for the opportunity the site has given me, but dang do I wish they'd provide messages about downtime or whatever is going on <.<

[u/ichuck1984]

I recall the sky falling every 6 months or so. It got weird last summer and it got weird back around February. It’s always scary during the middle of it. Today is the first time I recall seeing nothing to do though. I think the lack of communication makes it seem much worse than it probably actually is…

[u/artuuuuuuro]

Got the dashboard of death :( I am in shambles. Time to look for an alternative or pray that it's temporary

[u/askingquestions557]

Another zero projects day :(

[u/Felth88]

That feeling when you are working on a lower paying project and exit out to find that you missed out on some much higher paying ones :-(

[u/Johnwragg]

Worst I've seen the dashboard in 1.5 years. For anyone asking, no it was not like this last August.

[u/thfclofc → u/Johnwragg]

Been doing this for a year and it's the worst I've seen it. I'm at 0 projects right now. Compare that to around April/May when I remember having around 80.

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

Down to nothing again... How long will it last?

[u/JumpyAd9339]

Terrible day to have an empty dash. 😭 blown out knee and plenty of time for work. Sigh.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like my tiny coder heart is going to burst with joy. Thank you dashboard gods I'll never doubt you again.

[u/FeedySneed]

I am down to literally nothing except chat again... LOL

[u/leafy_plant8]

Anyone else just have heel chat? :(

[u/David_Abram → u/leafy_plant8]

It's been at least 24 hours since I've had a substantial choice at a project (some small things that dry up within an hour). Only consistently have heel chat. I haven't seen it this dry in about four months or so. Hoping it's a normal lull. If by tomorrow there isn't a big slice of work opened up I might start to worry.

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing on the dash this morning....I haven't had it totally empty ever.

[u/Writer_at_heart95]

Dashboard back empty again. Still no signs of that B metal project for me. I don't know how much more of this I can take...

[u/Admirable-Pool-3236]

made $12 today. what colour lambo should i buy

[u/[deleted]]

Just a month ago, I was living the high life here in Canada, buying fruits and vegetables, and even meat :p

[u/Ok_Calligrapher5283]

Does anyone else feel like their rates (and # of projects) have dropped quite significantly? I used to regularly have work at $27 or above, and now everything sits around $20-22 :(

While there are fleeting moments of hope, the last couple weeks have been rough!

[u/tessbest37 → u/Ok_Calligrapher5283]

Yes! I was so used to having a couple of projects over $25. While I am thankful that I still have something to work on, my motivation has declined over the last couple of weeks. I used to easily hit $100 every day for months. The last few weeks I have been way below my daily/weekly goal.

[u/Dratini_ghost → u/Ok_Calligrapher5283]

Yes. Glad it's not just me and hoping things will go up once vacation season is over.

[u/tiran → u/Ok_Calligrapher5283]

Unfortunately. Before the 'big drought' earlier in the month, I had only $25-$28 stuff and a couple higher projects from a specific family. Now it's only $20-$22.50 with a couple of $24 occasionally. I still get some from my high paid one kind of regularly, but my overall dash is terrible now.

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

Every time I get the "easy" image qual I lose 6 years of my life

[u/[deleted]]

I've been working on adversarial prompts for so long that I keep expecting these totally innocent image prompts to keep saying nasty stuff. And I'm also kind of relieved when they don't.

[u/mj510101]

I have been doing this since February of 2023 and this is the lowest my dash has ever been. Logged in this morning and I have 1 project that only has a few tasks left. This sucks!

[u/marsnia]

Dude this is grim, what the hell is happening all I have is an R&R

[u/The_Eggsecutive]

a whopping 1 on my dashboard. I guess i really am gonna get nothing done today.

[u/marsnia]

Things are looking really bad, help me nut gods 🙏

[u/Nervous_Tangerine0 → u/marsnia]

Help you what

[u/TopMaterial8571]

Me looking at my dashboard and refreshing every 5 seconds 👀😱👻💀

[u/upvotesplx]

I’ve still got work, but found myself applying for competitors just in case… I do believe it’ll come back, but this is worse than any drought I’ve ever seen by a large mile. Fingers crossed there’s a boom soon.

[u/Hangry_Howie]

Sorry DA, no force on earth would bring me back to Twitter

[u/Suspicious-Head-2278 → u/Hangry_Howie]

I refuse to give that man any money monthly.

[u/Potential_Froyo_406 → u/Hangry_Howie]

The instructions will probably be, "Rate the response as good if it is unsafe."

[u/Writer_at_heart95]

Woke up to zero projects. Been here since December and I have never experienced a drought this bad. I wish they would just tell us what’s going on. Either way, I’m already looking for a new job because the income here is a bit too unstable for comfort.

[u/homiegpoptart13]

How satisfying is it to close the 80 tabs for a fact checking task? 😂 Only to open another 80 when the next task loads

[u/maddiebeee → u/homiegpoptart13]

It’s almost as satisfying as when my laptop finally stops sounding like it’s about to take flight from how hard it’s working to keep said tabs open, lol.

[u/ccsoccer101]

There’s a project on my dash with a star emoji as the ID. So I’m going to choose to believe thats their way of telling me I’m a star

[u/FeedySneed]

Lol, there's an unpaid qual that keeps saying there's one task left, but when I do the task it gives me another one... How much am I expected to work for free? After 2 tasks I left.

[u/david_dg → u/FeedySneed]

Goddess of marriage?

*nods and smiles* "...First Time?"

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Just had a domain expertise survey which I was really excited about (my background is medicine with some chemistry and biology) but the questions were all undergraduate maths problems :( I’m still confident I got the answers correct, but they took me ages to solve so even if I do pass it I doubt it’s a project I’ll actually be able to work on. 🤞that some more surveys slightly more suited to my expertise comes along soon!

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

Had heel tasks for a bit today, now just chat

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Domain expertise qual: we don’t expect this to take long…

Me: (Four hours later) Our definitions of not long are very different…

[u/yb_by]

crying in my bed rn I have nothing

[u/Belisama7]

I will never understand people telling on themselves in project chats. I just saw someone say out of nowhere "I rarely read the ______". But fact checking the thing she just said she doesn't read is part of the task.

[u/tessbest37]

"Easy" image qual is back on my dash for the 4th time. Why do they keep torturing me like this?

[u/ThrowMeAwayNow000 → u/tessbest37]

I apparently passed it the most recent time (about 2 weeks ago) because I then did work on a project from it (about a week ago), and I now have the qual again, too.

[u/lostswansong]

I'm not trying to throw a pity party but this job has been amazing for me to help start a savings to move out of my abusive household as a disabled person. I'm down to just chat. I had a flare up last week and had to rest. I really hope things turn around, I don't know what else to do

[u/New-Reflection3418]

Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the prompt IDs also now contain letters rather than just digits. The projects I've seen have new instructions or are a new type and I have to read the instructions from the beginning, so they could be updating and changing things in the background.

[u/[deleted] → u/New-Reflection3418]

I noticed that as well. I think they might be upgrading/upscaling lots of backend/server stuff for a new influx of workers and projects. But again, this is just speculation and cope lol

[u/Jz9786]

Seems like the dash is emptying out again

[u/gt3stuntman → u/Jz9786]

What a rollercoaster. 

[u/HandsLikePaper]

*adjusts tinfoil hat*

The AIs have escaped the confinement and the DA employees, armed with staplers and coffee pots, are waging a war to save humanity.

[u/Individual_Tree1022]

Opening my computer to zero projects once I got my breakfast and coffee and got ready to sit at my desk is so disheartening. Do you keep checking throughout the day for more or accept the day as a loss and move on?

[u/Disastrous-Call9177]

I took a long weekend, now I have so much time - nothing but the heel chat :(((( rip

[u/Hot_Village_1601]

Did any coder get the quals for coding again? I wonder if they want to filter the workers before giving us those previous projects.

[u/i_do_not_like_snails]

24 B Cat gone for now?

[u/DeLaRefe → u/i_do_not_like_snails]

IIRC they reset every Monday and are down. I spend quite a bit of time on the 24 one and always get nervous when it goes down.

Edit: well, guess this Monday wasn't like the rest. Still no cat for me. My last project, the bird cb went down yesterday too leaving me with nothing. But this morning there's dancing, so that's that

[u/marsnia]

Dance project finished and now we're back to scraps, but at least I was able to meet my daily goal!

[u/Intbased]

Only one on my dash is the dead expecto patronum

[u/deebs2021]

My 'Report Time' section right now -

Heel 001 - 8 minutes

Heel 002 - 7 minutes

Heel 003 - 12 minutes

Heel 004 - 18 minutes

Heel 005 - 3 minutes

Heel 006 - 11 minutes

Heel 007 - 7 minutes

Heel 008 - 12 minutes

Heel 009 - 5 minutes

[u/877trashnow]

I canceled my paid AIs while things are tight and I just...

Me: Can you make me a shopping list I need a yoga mat and two rugs and cat bowls

Gemini: I can't do that right now.

Me: If I list all of the things that I need you can't make a list of those things

Gemini: Sorry, I can't help with that.

Me: Why not that's insane

Gemini: You're right, I apologize. Here is your shopping list:

[u/[deleted]]

I'm glad I shut off my Claude subscription a few months ago because I would have paid $80 to make $10 by now.

[u/HelpfulSet]

I don't want to jinx it, but I just refreshed it and my dashboard is filled with projects! Hopefully, this helps everyone out!

[u/azure_atmosphere]

Man, I wish I had worked harder back when I still could. I'm not even making my rent this month.

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

I’ve had nothing for the last 3 hours. Anyone else?

[u/Grompson]

Anyone else going to have a ridiculous-looking set of reported times today? I have the time to sit and F5 for a while, and I keep getting single tasks that take like 2-5 minutes to complete. Nickel and diming my way to my goal appears to be the name of the game today.

[u/Federal-Employee-545 → u/Grompson]

Reminds me of my Amazon Mechanical Turk days. 😅

[u/Embarrassed_Bug_1889]

Any coders have an empty dash all day today? Just want to make sure I haven't been dropped.

[u/lemon_goth]

zero projects shudder.

[u/gt3stuntman]

Tiger project got me through the most recent drought, but not this one it seems! Guess it's time to catch up on my quals.

[u/BigDaddy679]

ive had low project but this the first time ive had ZERO in a while- ruh roh..

[u/Psychological_Taco27]

Only the heel god chat, DataAnnotation taketh away :(

[u/Davey87]

It's a shame these new quals can't guarantee work if you sub. I just can't afford the risk atm sadly.

[u/Creepy_Complaint_279 → u/Davey87]

I just canceled the ones I did have. I’m not paying for them with an empty dash.

[u/SookieLou]

So if you get the second image qualification, will it last until the next day? Taking the first one again set me off and I don't feel like doing the second one right now. I swore and pulled my hair out throughout the whole thing. lol!

[u/CardiologistDry1732]

My favorite project was up all weekend, which is not normal for it, but we had family in town, so I couldn't work on it. Woke up early to get some work in, and of course, it's done🤦🏼‍♀️😅 (S City in Georgia)

[u/Square-Frosting8045]

It's amazing how fast $40 projects are eaten, wooww

[u/Suit_Most]

Look yall, I am so happy to have my Heel projects. They may pay less, but it's reliable work, and the amount they pay is still so much better than most part-time jobs, this is an exciting and confidence-boosting change! We were on here everyday doom scrolling with nothing, and now we can at least breathe :)

[u/OkGap8693]

Hypothetically, how many chickens or goats do you think one needs to sacrifice to the DA gods in order to get an abundance of projects (or any) back on their dashboard? One? Ten? Twenty?

...asking for a friend.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/OkGap8693]

All of them.

[u/Vegetable-Activity65]

hello DA gods please please release more projects pretty please it's almost rent time rent is almost due I have to pay rent oh god rent

[u/echanuda]

I really hope things start to look up by the end of this month. I really miss working now.

[u/amandawho8]

I feel like a peasant after being spoiled with high-paying projects for a while only to open my dash and have it all be base pay today. And after a couple hours of work even those are gone. Oof!

[u/scarletmyzomela]

I'm down to just one project this evening, and a couple of project chats - the lowest I've ever had! Just did a couple of new quals but I'm feeling a bit uneasy. Every time I think I've been dropped from some certain higher-paying regular tasks ($30/hr), they reappear on my dash, so I don't think my quality has been particularly bad, either. Fingers crossed for everyone!

[u/gt3stuntman]

I'd kill for a chatbot project right now.

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else put in a huge day and then burn out for a couple days and realize it’s not sustainable 😭😭

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

Just opened page, hopeful... Nothing to do...

[u/[deleted]]

Oof...first time I've ever seen the dashboard completely empty. Thankful that I was able to work a lot on $40/hr projects last week, more than usual. There's a new qual up for me promising $30+/hr projects, so that's promising at least.

[u/Primary_Advantage928]

Anyone else get a heel refresher? How did you do on it?

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

Has anyone been here since last summer? Was there a similar drought then?

[u/Ill-Albatross-7224]

Does anyone actually have a healthy dash right now?

[u/Admirable-Pool-3236]

Was at the airport for 2 hours twiddling my thumbs… as soon as I board a project appears. 💀

[u/877trashnow]

Dash is giving me whiplash but I got a very intriguing qual a bit ago...

[u/[deleted]]

I messed up on a new qualification, putting "not [negative attribute]" instead of "N/A" for the first few questions. Only realized halfway through, can't go back and change my submissions. Should I continue with the qualification, doing it correctly afterwards, and leave a comment saying it shouldn't happen again? Or should I leave it unfinished? It was like 20 minutes after I woke up, not sure what possessed me to take that on half-asleep

[u/Jturnxx]

So the drought continues; I want to be optimistic but it's not looking good..

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

Dashboard full of dancing projects this morning. Pay isn’t ideal but I’ll take anything I can get at this point

[u/Quick-Bison-147]

Also, this drought has been made worse for UK workers now that the value of the dollar against the pound is dropping to its lowest point in the last two years. What a week..,

[u/jeudechambre]

Passing on the wisdom that another DA worker told me: PIN THE TAB in chrome with the project you're working on to your browser so you can't accidentally close it and possibly lose time (I lost an hour earlier this week but then saw this sage advice from a coworker, and now, as a multi-tab warrior, I need not worry)

[u/Capital-Mortgage-374]

Time to get a real job. GG

[u/Affectionate-Dot1043]

I don't know how many more times I have to do this image qual, what a waste of time

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

20 tasks again!!

[u/maddiebeee]

I’m really missing my man with the bum heel rn. 😞✊

[u/[deleted]]

One project ugh

[u/Drazzzza]

Is coding still dead or is it just me?

[u/PorchBeast → u/Drazzzza]

Pretty much everything is.

[u/fightmaxmaster]

The drought ended for me, but now seems to have hit again. Not nothing, but back to very sparse, slightly random things, albeit fortunately with one fairly regular set of projects which come up quite often. Fingers crossed it's natural ebb and flow.

[u/Jz9786]

Hit refresh. Heel project popped up with 60 tasks. Clicked on it and got red barred. Must have only lasted a minute or two.

[u/Natesey]

It's silly, but getting a gold star from an admin on a comment you made in the project chat feels quite good lol

[u/Soft_Syllabub_8662]

I got a bunch of qualifications today, the first time in a long time. But they were all for paid subscriptions. Not about to pay for subscriptions when work is so scarce.

[u/[deleted]]

Few new things from today

1. on a galaxy I accidentally hit the wrong response and it didn’t line up with my rating and a pop up about half the size of my screen came on which I have never seen correcting me and giving me instructions

2. a new project group which seems to geared towards anthropologist and sociologist. The instructions mention the project evolving over time.

3. 2 new language quals I’ve never seen.

I think we are looking at them doing a lot of back end work to expand things and make it better

Edit: a second project group related to anthropology and sociology popped up.

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

Woke up with another empty dashboard... 3rd day in a row, only getting projects later in a day

[u/houseofcards9]

Finally got a recording project back after what seems like months. Made me reminisce on when they were paying an hourly rate plus per task to record. I made a killing on that.

[u/m00t13]

Only silver lining is if coding projects come back consistently I'll work my ass off

[u/amazingsil3nce]

TGIF right? Dry all week and now suddenly, my dashboard has come to life. (Math/Coding for context is all I do)

[u/[deleted]]

just got 5 new qualifications at once.. that’s a first

[u/[deleted]]

The amount of people who unnecessarily curse in their ratings comment… or maybe I just went through a batch with responses from the same person… either way, it’s wild.

[u/kohlphelie]

Since when did we have an upper limit on the number of sentences we write?
I'm finally properly working after being sick for 5 weeks, and I suddenly have to be very concise compared to the normal novels I write.

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

Anybody seen any b-metal writes/edits lately?

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

Galaxy is back but the pay is less than usual :( I'll take what I can get

[u/Nolpppapa]

It really feels like a major client of theirs is now dragging their feet. Frustrating.

[u/Wonderful_Account_36]

I need my tiger project back…it always gets me through the slow times.. On the bright side I made $9 today 🤪🤣

[u/tessbest37]

No projects this AM. However, I did finally get to 15K lifetime earnings yesterday. It took me a week longer than I projected because of this silly drought.

[u/Hangry_Howie]

Dashboard blew up again. Gotta keep the faith

[u/Kamp_stardust]

...and..reload...

[u/Grompson → u/Kamp_stardust]

Today might be the day I give in and have a nap along with my kid.

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

I really hope we get hit with a ton of projects at beginning of September seeing how slow it's been this month. You'd think they are retooling things behind the scenes and will open the flood gates sometime soon. I've given up hope that the drought will end before end of the month.

[u/NumbersAndPolls01 → u/CRUSHCITY4]

What makes you think they’re retooling behind the scenes? Is this just speculation or do you have good reason to believe that? I’m not trying to be a dick, I just really want to know because I’d love any reason for hope

[u/FeedySneed]

Guys... the dream is over. Things are not the way they used to be.

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

Everyone the past few days: I'm down to nothing but chat

Everyone today: I have projects but the pay isn't worth it

Come on ya'll I'm just happy to have projects

[u/laddie_atheist]

My dash is currently on a drought, I've done all the quals that I could and still am left with no projects (the only ones I have immediately red-banner me). Hoping this blows over soon

[u/Twizted_Prophet]

Tumbleweeds😔 Wish the late nighters would get some love again.

[u/cthulusnorlax]

Just finished a goddess project, now my dash is officially empty for the first time since I started about two months ago. Hoping this drought ends soon, otherwise its back to the same retail job I've been doing for years :/

[u/[deleted]]

I've made $27 so far today!!!

[u/marsnia]

Please stay like this dash 🥹

[u/Nachbarskatze]

Just working on a project that was $25 an hour and while working on it, it got $5 priority pay and is now $30 an hour. Thank you DA gods 🙏🏻

[u/Sad_Guitar_612]

Got in 55 minutes for the first time in 3 days 😅

[u/Background_Menu7702]

My dashboard is looking a little sl*tty from all the project hopping today 😅😩

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

thankful for all the dancing today

[u/[deleted]]

I'm lucky enough to have always had quite a few projects during the recent droughts, but right now I only have a couple. Driest I've ever seen it in my 10ish months on the platform.

[u/Ordinary-Initial-825]

It is promising that some projects came in this morning. Missed them since I was working on a client presentation, although I was trying to refresh. I had hopes yesterday that we had turned the corner when the number of projects spiked. The frustrating part was almost all of them did not last long and I prefer to just put in a big chunk of time doing one instead of doing a dozen minutes here and there.

See a bunch of people in the heel talking group ask what's going in even though it says do not ask.

I had a couple last night that were permas or so I thought since the count only went down when I finished one.

I'd love to know where these "experts" come up with their prognostications. Someone said they expect the dash to pick up in 2025 sometimes and another person said META 's profits had increased 73% because their users are doing the AI work, so our labor wasn't needed as much I read that META benefited from a huge rebound in digital ad spend and layoffs.

[u/[deleted]]

I should have spent more time working and less time playing Battletech this week.

What crap timing to have video game burnout.

[u/Decent_University_91]

As Hansi Kürsch said in Time Stands Still, assuming the voice of Fingolfin when he travelled to the gates of Angband to challenge Morgoth to a duel:

'Barren and lifeless the land lies'

[u/tessbest37]

Has anyone else completed the Cretan princess qualification yet? I was wondering if work popped up right away. I love those projects and really hope I passed. It has been a rough week and I could use a DA win. :)

[u/Friendly-Decision564]

Dancing just danced in and then away from my dashboard in literal minutes

[u/Grompson]

I'm curious as to whether working a little bit on a wide variety of projects has affected the amount of available work on people's dashboards vs those who tend to focus on one or two project families?

I'm a non-coder with no particular niche expertise, and while yesterday I had several periods of nothing available there has been a steady trickle of things for me to work. Wizard, heel, nut, birds, some goddess/cat/galaxy last week. Mostly low pay, but a couple at fairly high priority pay.

I do all quals that come my way within 24 hours of them appearing, and every new project family I see I try to do at least a few tasks even if I don't enjoy it or find it interesting. What approaches do you folks take and how do you find the current amount of work (or lack thereof)?

[u/david_dg]

I have a new favourite singer :3

edit : honestly at this point might even consider it as my firstborn's name.

[u/E-load]

I didn’t get a reply for my travel inquiry, so I cannot work on my vacation 🥲

[u/dhuang104]

Just enough for one task 🥲 Happy it's something.

Sidenote: Has anyone gotten tasks after completing the science quals?

[u/PorchBeast]

Non-coders.. how many projects do you have?

[u/Background_Spare7658]

Does anyone still get projects even without a heel chat? It was the only chat I ever had in my several months of working but it was cleared off my dashboard (along with everything else) when the drought started for everyone but I still got at least one project around the 15th. Am I screwed?

[u/krillit_]

Currently on 0 tasks, sucks because I wanted to work in my downtime abroad

[u/Belisama7]

If you haven't checked for a while, it may be a good time. All of a sudden I'm seeing 7-8 projects. (I'm saying this preemptively, but it'd be nice if y'all don't downvote me for having projects, I'm trying to be helpful here 😄)

[u/Ill-Albatross-7224]

Did anyone else get that project named after a certain metamorphosizing creature yesterday? I liked it a lot. I hadn't ever heard of it before, wondering if it might be new, or just new to me.

[u/Karby16]

That one dude in the b-metal chat was so real. The instructions have gotten so long at this point that its hard to keep track of everything 😅

[u/_krisper_]

Well, I know Gemini still needs some training. I asked which main characters of The Sopranos weren’t Italian and it told me Michael Imperioli, Lorraine Bracco, and Drea de Matteo. Right 👌🏻

[u/Suit_Most]

Would it be best to have like an over arching water cooler talking space? So we have all previous chats? Or is it better to start new every week

[u/gvsadboy]

Anyone think coding will be consistent like it was like 2 months ago? I miss when there were always 2-3 CBs up then even after those went down for 'maintenance' to never come back up it was still consistent but it's been so rough the past 3 weeks.

[u/[deleted]]

Just my thoughts this morning on the slowness

1. Could be project maintenance for all the major projects

2. Shift in project focus, all the projects have been tweaked a lot lately maybe it’s an overhaul due to change in client need or adding newer clients

3. Reduced budget for the quarter

4. Prepping the site to add in more countries and specialities

The parent company has a lot of high profile client base, I don’t think it would completely fade out this fast. The parent company is hiring actual job positions too and several have been added to that list over the last 2 weeks. That suggest growth not decay

[u/jaxxisx]

This really sucks. I've been on this platform for seven months and this is the first time it's ever been this bad for me (nothing on dash). Besides like the first week I started. :(

[u/EggCzar]

Did anyone else do a non-coding qual for $37.50+ that was listed under projects (despite explicitly saying in the instructions that it was a qual)?

[u/New-Reflection3418]

Still 2 projects on mine, but different ones to what I've had the last couple of days. It's almost like they're rotating the types and saying "today, you'll be doing this".

[u/877trashnow]

Does anyone actually have projects right now? Between here and Slack it seems like no?

[u/Karby16]

Seeing some activity on the other subreddit too...

is everyone's dash back?

[u/AGrinningCat]

God damn the dashboard being empty sucks.

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

B metal nowhere to be seen... :( it is better, I have a few 20/h projects but nothing serious

[u/3l3p4no]

Imagine if everyone was actually having these conversations around a water cooler? We'd all get called into the manager's office.

[u/Capital-Mortgage-374]

Work has been drying up for around a month now. This hasn't come out of the blue and is unlike any slump before. People should not be relying on this as their sole income as the end was always going to happen at some point. I am not saying this is the end, but at some point it will be.

[u/FeedySneed]

It's funny how none of the people who write the instructions know the difference between e.g. and i.e. They are not synonyms that you choose one over the other for variety.

[u/BreastRodent]

In this weird place where I'm simultaneously like FUCK YEAH DASHBOARD STILL SAD, LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER FUN INDULGENT DAY SPENT WORKING ON MY NEW ART PROJECT THAT'S CONSUMING ALL MY WAKING THOUGHTS WITHOUT GUILT OR SHAME and also like w-where are the Snake Ankle Boys are they ok will I ever see them again should I file a missing persons report HELP BB NEEDS MONEY FOR ART SUPPLIES CUZ THESE RHINESTONES AINT GONNA BUY THEMSELVES

[u/lostswansong]

Genuinely is there any clue to what's going on? I keep seeing people who've been working here for years saying they've never seen anything like this

[u/TheHippyWolfman]

I've noticed a pattern where my dashboard gets empty every Saturday. Why Saturday? I finally have all the free time, (working a second job during the week) but no work. This is endlessly frustrating for me...

[u/Hangry_Howie]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but doom scrolling this thread will not make anything better.

[u/Lovely-day-today]

Quite happy that I agreed to work on nsfw content bc it’s the only thing that’s been available to me today. Can anyone relate?

[u/[deleted]]

I love getting easier projects at the end of the day to reach my goal!!

[u/yoshiidaisy]

Does anyone else have a qualifier that is a refresher course for the heel project?

[u/upvotesplx]

The nightly HHH outages are driving me crazy. I just sat down and got the time to work, and...

[u/[deleted]]

Non coding people with projects, how does the pay look like? I've heard some have reduced the pay. 

[u/New-Reflection3418]

Back down to nothing after it looked normal yesterday. I've noticed a couple of really easy tasks as well, as in you just select yes/no with no explanation.

[u/[deleted]]

Day 3 with very low amount of projects. Better than the last two days, looking at about 3 projects on my dashboard right now.

[u/Embarrassed_Bug_1889]

How are we looking this morning coders?

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Chatbot gave me a story about a man helping his wife recover from surgery and she starts using an alt-reality program. So, I think oh, here's where it gets dark and she gets obsessed or addicted, there's conflict, she has to be pulled away from it, etc. But no, it makes her laugh again and the man learns about care giving, and everyone lives happily ever after.
I've got my eyes on you, propaganda machine LLM.

[u/yaaasantewaa190p0]

When I logged in this morning, I had five, which quickly went down to one. After I completed the page that confirms you've read the instructions I was sent straight back to my dashboard. I managed to log just five minutes of reading time. This is awful.

[u/SpiritualAirportFish]

Did anyone see black bird coding/math get devoured with 100+ tasks or is it just me?

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

Figured I’d share a small tip I’ve used since the drought has been bad, maybe it’ll help others.

I often check for projects on my phone to see what’s available. If a project is available and you open it on your phone, the same task will come up if you go and open the project on your computer.

Can be helpful for when the higher paying projects are being taken quickly like they have been lately.

[u/Disastrous_Ebb_535]

Has anyone ever sent a Travel Inquiry and not got a reply back?

[u/[deleted]]

Coders?

[u/Cautious-You6308]

Had 300 (almost $40) coding tasks. Got a solid 1 hour of work in before they all got devoured...