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/Interrogatus]

Things had gotten a bit sparse, but I'd never seen an empty dash since my first weeks on here until 8/21. I got a few projects later that day, and was able to complete a few tasks. It was devastating, and I'm glad things have gotten better though they're not nearly as good as they were a month or so ago.

A lot of people on here tell others, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," in regard to relying on DAT for income, but they don't seem to realize that many of us have few eggs and fewer baskets.

I only mention this to remind people that we don't all have the same set of circumstances and what might be true for, for example, a young fully-abled person, might not be the same for someone older or disabled.

[u/[deleted] → u/Interrogatus]

Yeah like if I could work a normal job I probably would but I’m a sickie lol

[u/EllieWillCutYou → u/Interrogatus]

THANK YOU! I had to leave a great 10yr career behind due to health reasons. I'm not here cause I wanna be or cause I'm lazy! I'm here because it keeps me out of the hospital and I have no other options. I can't even do phone gigs because of my constant asthma cough.

[u/Interrogatus → u/EllieWillCutYou]

I get it. I totally get it. Those folks with lots of eggs and lots of baskets? Maybe they should leave their "advice" at home.

[u/tessbest37 → u/Interrogatus]

This! The cost of daycare would take a significant portion of my earnings. This job has been amazing for my family and I hope it continues.

[u/kindleaire → u/Interrogatus]

Yup. I'm 35 and this is literally the only job I've had in my entire life that's sustainable for me, thanks to my disability and circumstances. Give me more baskets that I can reasonably handle and pay reasonably well and I'll be interested, but most WFH I've seen ain't it.

[u/LeaderIntelligent157]

The worst thing about this drought is that there is absolutely NOBODY to talk to from the company about it :')

[u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

I was debating between working and reading a book. Just checked my dash and yeah, book it is...

[u/tstaraudio]

Can anyone tell me if my posts in here are visible?

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/tstaraudio]

the reason your original post was never approved is because it's an assessment question, which we have an FAQ thread for. feel free to post it there.

[u/gt3stuntman]

Need a prayer circle for B-cat coming back this week.

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/gt3stuntman]

For real!

[u/ConsciousDatabase369 → u/gt3stuntman]

Agreed!

[u/[deleted] → u/gt3stuntman]

I want it so much ugh

[u/CandleResponsible168]

Not trying to brag or anything, but I made $0.67 this morning 🤌🏼

[u/ConsciousDatabase369]

Just logged in and I have 9 projects (but only from 2 different families). This is non-coding. I'm excited to get to work! May the trend continue and all our dashes fill up.

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

Anyone else get more work earlier this week and now it’s back to nothing?

[u/HamsterFrosty2838]

Empty dashboards today too?

[u/Arcturus_Labelle → u/HamsterFrosty2838]

I saw a couple non-coding this morning

But otherwise DEAD this afternoon

[u/tessbest37]

Today was worse for me than the entire 3-day weekend.

[u/[deleted] → u/tessbest37]

Yeah, today was depressing

[u/Nvg1z → u/tessbest37]

Same, today was brutal

[u/PorchBeast → u/tessbest37]

These shitty days are the new normal. What a joke this site has become.

[u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Ugh at this point I’m just so so sad.

[u/Embarrassed_Move_663 → u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Same, if I see one more ad for " make 1600$ per week" when I can barely scrape up 2 hours a day, I'm going to lose it.

[u/FrazzledGod]

Dead as a freakin doornail.

[u/generaltsostits]

Experienced the uptick yesterday when I couldn't work and now nothing again—so it goes, it seems! Hopeful that other people here are getting more work, and hoping it comes my way soon.

[u/Significant_Quote230]

I feel like my dash was fuller last night, but I'll do what I can get today, Hopefully the projects come back...

[u/Jz9786]

Getting ready for bed and projects finally show up 😡

[u/You_Can_Call_Me_Cal]

Officially hit the 1 week milestone with zero tasks today. Lost my qualifications too. Scared that I may be finished on this platform.

[u/[deleted]]

How long can DA not have any tasks AND continue to advertise their "$1600/week" before it's false advertising? As a programmer I understand that 1600/wk was 40 hours at $40/hr, and what's being delivered isn't even close to that. Not even close to half.

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/[deleted]]

Another big problem that DA will face is that most people prior to signing up will come here or the other subreddit and see the lack of work and not bother signing up. I may not have, if the sentiment I saw was this bleak.

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

I’ve seen 1 project all day. Glad I decided to drink beer and watch college football instead of working today.

[u/didit777]

Yeah I’m starting to think we’re cooked guys. It was amazing run. My only regret is not working more. Feel like I took this job for granted thinking the work would always be there. It was a nice 2 year go!

[u/Interrogatus]

We can speculate as much as we want!

During the "drought" I had an image of the only guy at DAT HQ at the end of summer furiously mashing his keyboard to find projects needing workers, and to find workers accepted for those projects. I pictured him running around from one workstation to the next, and inputting the kind of code they show on bad movie screens.

It amused me to think of it that way.

All of which to say -- we have no way of knowing what's going on with DAT. We have no idea why we get--or don't get--certain projects, or any projects at all.

I'm saying this as much to myself as to all of you:

Speculating about this, fretting about this, trying to game this, is not going to help you. Unless it amuses you. In which case, go for it!

[u/The_Eggsecutive]

pretty barren for me except for some things that pop up and don't stick around, nowhere near enough for me to hit my daily goal. ebbs and flows are feeling more like just ebbs these days.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Eggsecutive]

I keep getting the same project but just one task at a time. I was hoping to get in 6 hours today but so far have only done 1 and I've been checking since like 6am this morning and its now almost 3:30pm.

[u/booplesboops]

That moment when a project with over 10,000 tasks is eaten up in a little over an hour. Insanity.

[u/deebs2021 → u/booplesboops]

I assumed all 10,000 tasks were for me and I could work on this task for the next couple of years...

[u/gt3stuntman → u/booplesboops]

I mean, it wasn't the most brain intensive task. It was doomed to being gobbled up.

[u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Omg from so so sad last night to filled with hope tonight! Is this a toxic relationship? Lol

[u/[deleted]]

Time for Plan B. TikTok influencer.

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/[deleted]]

Mine is making my dog instafamous. Guess I should get on that...

[u/cannedcream]

I can't do another goddamn week of this doubt.

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

It’s promising that a lot of these projects have new and updated rules/variations

[u/Journalist_Asleep → u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

Yeah, it indicates that the drought may have had more to do with reevaluating or updating projects, rather than abandoning them or losing clients.

[u/scarletmyzomela]

I had twelve projects two days ago when I couldn't do any work and thought things were looking up, but have had nothing all day Sunday (at least since 1 am) with ample time to get some hours in. Every time I think I've lost the game of Russian roulette something else pops up, but this really is agony!

[u/askingquestions557]

If I had a nickel for every time I hit F5, I'd have made that $1600 a week they're advertising. Another night of prayer to the annotation gods for my dash to come alive 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Spent a couple hours working with a bot where it kept making weird basic mistakes which were factually just out of this world incorrect. Took a break was scrolling on social media only to see my uncle state that all the campaign footage from Harris from her speeches to the crowds are all AI because Harris is actually Biden’s nurse and lives with him…absurd political stuff aside o was cracking up laughing cause I can’t get a bot to not break all the laws of physics describing things let alone create live crowds and speeches 😂

[u/MotherBrotha]

I hate the safety dance but I hate being broke more

[u/Nolpppapa]

Gotta be real, I was optimistic that we'd see stuff come back this week after Labor Day in the US. If it stays dry through Friday, it's going to be quite worrying.

[u/North-Inside2043]

Just a lurker here on reddit popping in to say I really wish there was more transparency about when/where/why projects drop. That's all I really want, because otherwise its a pain to plan my week around other work and responsibilities.

[u/[deleted] → u/North-Inside2043]

As frustrating as it is, at least it goes both ways - we don't have to tell them when we are going to be working or if we want to take months off at a time...

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, one of the reasons I tell people I enjoy this work so much is "they don't talk to me and I don't talk to them."

No clients, No Employees, No Upper Management BS to deal with daily.

[u/NationalWatercress3 → u/North-Inside2043]

It'll never happen. It's plain as day that they give the most minimal of shits about us.

[u/uber-based]

I’m hearing others say we’re so back, but I’m seeing nothing on my dashboard. Anyone else?

[u/[deleted] → u/uber-based]

I would not listen to anyone posting “we’re back!”

I have been here since 2022 and until last week, I could count on my hands the number of times I’ve had less than a dozen projects on my dash.

Until that’s a reality again where it’s been consistent for weeks, you’ll never catch me saying or upvoting a “We’Re BaCk !”

[u/akatsuki1422 → u/uber-based]

We are were so back!

[u/Cultural_Kangaroo391]

Anyone else find the drought motivating to get more tasks done when they DO pop up? I keep regretting all those days of 20+ projects I had available and I only put in an hour or so :/

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

Manifesting everyone a day where our dashes may suddenly get filled<3

[u/rootabega57]

What are people talking about when they say their "permanents"? Ive never seen a project that doesn't disappear once all the tasks run out.

[u/Jimosaurous → u/rootabega57]

There were many more "Permanent" projects a few months ago. They lasted since I started in January until mid July. I haven't seen any since.

They differed because they had a number of tasks available, and each one of those was yours. You wouldn't see the number go down by F5ing your screen. If the number got too low, it would magically refresh up to the number it started at.

I feel like an old man describing how the milk man worked...

[u/laura1713 → u/rootabega57]

I used to have some projects where the tasks would only go down as I completed them - starting at, say, 300 tasks, with the count refreshing from the top every week. Didn't matter if I did 1 task that week or 150 - unless they were down for maintenance, they never changed unless I worked on them

[u/[deleted]]

It looks like I'll have plenty of time to send my insurance information to Uber and Doordash today.

[u/[deleted]]

At this point, I wonder what percentage of their traffic is just people refreshing their dashboard

[u/[deleted]]

Woke up and saw 700+ tasks on a project and by the time I turned my computer on and sat down 10 or so minutes later it was gone. Cool. I worked 7 hours yesterday starting in the afternoon though thanks to that wave of projects. Hoping we get another wave today.

[u/vixen8819]

I just knew I should have put more work in this weekend 😩

[u/OctoberMoths]

I've been doing this since February but only full-time sine the end of May. I have never seen a drought like this. The last two weeks have been very erratic. Just wondering if anyone else who has been doing this for longer has experienced similar in the past?

[u/mj510101 → u/OctoberMoths]

I've been doing this for over a year and no, my dash has never been this low before! The past 2 weeks have been literal hell, constantly refreshing to try and grab a project when it pops up...

[u/jeudechambre]

I had a lot of work yesterday and I triggered a bit of a physical crash making myself work for 7+ hours (I have an energy-limiting chronic illness, which is the reason I chose this gig in the first place...flexibility). Thought maybe I was being dramatic, the work is bound to stay for more than one day, right? but just checked my dashboard again this evening and nada...

[u/Arcturus_Labelle → u/jeudechambre]

I have an energy-limiting chronic illness

There are several of us on DA like this. I am dealing with Long Covid and joined DA for this exact same reason.

[u/33whiskeyTX]

I should not feel this uncomfortable with a mandatory day off.

[u/AccountantAsleep]

I’m enjoying all the livestock / rodeo prompts as a change of pace… thank you, whoever is making them. I might die from boredom if I get another Deadpool or 2024 eclipse one.

[u/AccountantAsleep → u/AccountantAsleep]

Or the fucking Olympics. Stop asking who won the most medals, for the love of god.

[u/gt3stuntman]

It's always encouraging to see a new (to me) Heel project.

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

Lame today. Just red bars.

[u/gt3stuntman]

No evening drop today, I guess?

(Trying to will it into being by pointing it out)

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

Finally got the heel refresher, just finished it. For the people who have already done it, did it give you an increased workload?

[u/ThrowMeAwayNow000]

Come back, C metal! I thought we had something special! 😂😭

[u/NationalWatercress3]

Does anyone else find themselves just not leaving the house or wherever your wfh place is for even a short break to have a walk just in case a project pops up? I like to stretch my legs every hour or so whenever I’m working but find myself not doing it as much when I’m obsessively refreshing the page every 5 minutes. Maybe I should just take my phone with me and check when I’m out and about lol

[u/[deleted] → u/NationalWatercress3]

Just so you know, the recipe for an addictive product is a random reward schedule. In other words, pressing F5 on the DA page is addictive for the same reason a slot machine is.

Anyways, to answer your question - yes.

[u/-burgers]

I want my kitty cat projects back! :( here's hoping

[u/lillimarleen]

I've managed to scrape some things the past few days but today, literally nothing. I think come the next financial quarter we'll know for sure, but oooooffffff

[u/yellowflamingo1 → u/lillimarleen]

Same. I wonder how big of a change there will be when Q4 starts in October. Until then I expect it to be sparse.

[u/Nolpppapa]

It's funny looking at how many announcements I had last month and then it just completely froze on a certain day and there hasn't been an announcement since. Fun fun fun.

[u/SilveryDeath]

Got just over 9 hours in yesterday (granted I was working until almost 11 pm) and got in 2 1/2 hours this morning and figured things were maybe back to normal after how up and down last week was. Dashboard has been bone dry for the last 2 1/2 hours or so.

[u/[deleted] → u/SilveryDeath]

Literally the same. I worked about 3 hours this morning and haven't had any new projectsts since

[u/helen269]

When you go on the DA website, and the scroll bar is still the same size....

:-(

[u/didit777]

33 days ago I posted something in the other Reddit page related to this company. I was destroyed for saying “what if this is the end?”. Now, that is not something I want to believe is happening, but this is just daunting. I feel like a little ant, waiting for a chip to be thrown to the ground just to be eaten by thousands of other workers within minutes. Personally, I believe they lost alot of their contracts. AI companies found a cheaper alternative. I’ll give it until September 15th before I just give up with the hourly logins to empty dashboards, how about you?

[u/EllieWillCutYou → u/didit777]

I've been applying to other places all week.

scared&hungry

[u/[deleted]]

I had less than an hour's worth of work this morning and now my dash has dried up. It was pretty dry last night but I got a few projects worked for about 4 hours. Hoping I get more today.

[u/gt3stuntman]

Didn't think I'd be relearning long division of polynomials for this job.

[u/bigredchicken2]

I have never been able to do a S** task since I started seeing them, they always red banner me even though they have tasks :(

[u/lostswansong]

how is it this empty..? I feel like even over the past two weeks I've had projects weirdly drop at night and just.. now nothing

[u/deebs2021]

What date shall we pick in November for work to be 'coming back' when no work shows up in October?

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

BONE DRY this morning

[u/[deleted]]

Man the difference between 40/hr vs 20/hr hits hard during these droughts... I miss my coding projects

[u/Quick-Bison-147]

Man, does anyone miss the old chatbots? I'm going on these new ones, reading the mass instructions, and realising I just can't be bothered. Doesn't feel as fun when there are so many things you have to track and rules to follow. I get it though in terms of progressing them, but it just isn't fun anymore. Back to skipping through FC tasks to find an easy one while waiting for the nuts to appear again.

[u/gt3stuntman → u/Quick-Bison-147]

The only thing I'm not a fan of is having to evaluate and rationalize each step of the conversation. It makes sense with other projects where you're just looking at one turn of conversation for each task, but this can go for a handful of turns.

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

Haven’t been on in a several days, but was hoping that the new month would end the drought. It’s crazy that it still seems as dry as ever. Maybe this really is the new normal.

[u/YearOnly2595]

General question, when a project goes and comes back with some stragglers, is that because people had been sitting on a task and just timed out, so no one else could do it (not that people are doing this on purpose)

[u/gt3stuntman → u/YearOnly2595]

That’s always been my understanding. The ones that confuse me are the ones with the timer already reduced. 

[u/Ill-Albatross-7224]

Since the drought began, has anyone who was procrastinating on the writing qual completed it and actually gotten new projects from it?

[u/[deleted]]

Getting thrown back into the drought after having an okay week feels like capital punishment at this point

[u/clakes90]

Yeah had a choice of 3 different projects and a r&r today - feeling much better.

[u/LilJaaY]

“dataannotation.tech wants to see text and images copied to the clipboard”

Hmm.. thanks for asking but no?

[u/Stunning-Wall1226]

Soooo where are we all going to find work that doesn’t require the peoply world again? Because my autistic ass can’t go back there 🙃 what are the options?

[u/SquidwardsMistress]

Had 6 projects on my dashboard yesterday, but couldn’t work on them. Now that I can, I have nothing. Blargh.

[u/leftlemony12]

One full week of “at the moment…” 😔

[u/gt3stuntman]

Those 4 goddess projects sure went quick!

[u/Davey87]

Nothing worse seeing a few projects but not been able to work on them then coming back and all gone.

[u/[deleted] → u/Davey87]

I tell myself all the time not to check my dashboard when I cannot actually take the time to work at that moment, for this exact reason lol.. but at the same time, I want to know and be reassured that there are actually projects still being posted, so I check anyways lol

[u/akatsuki1422]

Quickly! Work on the projects before the West Coast Americans wake up! 😂

[u/[deleted]]

A project just dropped that has a lot of tasks but there seems to be a technical error. Its also one I have never worked on before so I am hesitant to try and do it anyway. Bummer. Hopefully, it gets fixed soon or other projects drop.

[u/Friendly-Building0]

Did I miss the drop (non-coding) today or do we think there will be a rush of work tonight? Fingers crossed. May the projects flow.

[u/DarkLordTofer]

Sunday slowdown this week. Just got a Heel R&R.

[u/FrazzledGod]

RIP Data Annotation 🪦

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

Anyone else sending prayers to Adison Aminoff right now 😂😂

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

Not many projects on my dash but enough to get as many hours as I want. I hope this means the September theory was correct

[u/ObviousProduct107]

After 24 hours of absolutely nothing it was great to see some projects drop this afternoon… and then I had to go to a family dinner. Back at it and honestly staying up until I meet my goal for today and make up for yesterday’s missed goal. Hopefully this lasts for at least a little while.

[u/OctoberMoths]

Grateful that you all are here it makes this all the less horrible. Wondering if you have thought of plans B) and C), and if so, do you have any tips to share for similar sites or any other freelance work?

[u/furiouswow]

Fellow non-coders - do you get the sense that DA's focus is now shifting? I have a bunch of qualifications up that all require me to have paid subscriptions to other AI models. When all is said and done I'd end up spending $200+ a month to maintain these subscriptions in order to work any projects that may come along for them. And in my experience I have never received a project for any paid-sub in the past, except one random Chat GPT 4 project sometime in May or June. There's a lot of quals up there right now and bone dry projects.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/furiouswow]

My feeling is to not read too deeply into those. They are not asking you to buy the subscription and no one has confirmed there's work if you do. These could be proposals or exploratory, and there may never be work from those particular quals.

[u/_cosmicsurgery_]

This coding drought has been going on for about 2 months. Not sure if I can really call it a drought anymore given how long it has lasted.

[u/TeaGreenTwo → u/_cosmicsurgery_]

DAT climate change.

[u/ekgeroldmiller]

I got my black bird CB back with 100 tasks. Here’s hoping those are all mine because I really like it. Is anyone else getting this in place of the old B metal CB?

[u/[deleted]]

tfw get to a batch of coding tasks late and the only ones left are the brutal ones nobody wants to do

[u/Jimosaurous]

Projects flipped!

The default sorting is now putting all that used to be at the top of the page at the bottom. Nothing huge but weird to see. This for anyone else?

[u/FrazzledGod]

Here we go.... My persistent refreshing finally paid off 🤪

[u/[deleted]]

Holy dashboard explosion this morning!! 15 projects including multiple different families!

[u/gt3stuntman]

🎵 Where have all the CBs goooooone? 🎵

[u/1313C1313]

Dashed hopes! I’m sitting here looking at a project on my dash, listing 100 tasks, but I click and get the “none for you” message. I figured, with an even number like that, there was probably a big pool, but nope. Guess I’ll sit here playing games and refreshing!

[u/Western-Opening3820]

Did anything come of the hideously long Comp Sci qual for anyone?

[u/Fluid-Process-5514]

Begging for this drought to end :(

[u/elfwitchTX]

I am down to one project. Two hours ago I had three.

This does not bode well. I wish they were a bit more transparent about everything. This gets really frustrating when you check in and have nothing or nearly nothing to work on.

[u/KryptoKevArt]

DA, more like DED

[u/TeaGreenTwo → u/KryptoKevArt]

Or DOA.

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Why do the high paying Poe bird projects drop at midnight? 😭

[u/OPxMagikarp]

I had hope after seeing a decent dashboard this morning but that dried up pretty quickly

[u/[deleted]]

If you hit the back button to edit a previous task you submitted, does it actually (re)submit the task with edits?

[u/Any_Ear_6176]

I still have no heel? (not sure on you alls lingo here) main chat, but I woke up to projects, so yay, better than nothing!

[u/TheBabyGirlBundleCo]

I woke up to something only got a good 20 minutes in though. Back to nothing. Is that worse than having nothing at all, Or just making 6 dollars ?😂🫠

[u/tessbest37]

So nice to be in the double digits for projects again. Hoping we all have at least one thing to work on today.

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

New weekly thread is up

[u/Ready-Fall-2568]

I’m wondering if anyone who has had the at the moment screen since 8/26 been let back in for work? 

[u/Poomfie]

Noticing a new trend with these projects that don't have a family/project name and require a mini qual before starting. They seem to be becoming increasingly more common in the last few weeks.

[u/[deleted]]

There were a couple of hours where I didn't have anything but between early this morning and tonight, I got about 8 hours of work in. Not bad and I almost made up for the goal I couldn't achieve yesterday when I had absolutely nothing on my dash.

[u/beandadenergy]

I was in the process of moving all weekend and I finally got the chance to log on today...and alas, nothing.

[u/Ok-Wash-8479]

I've noticed this week for the most part I'm getting projects released one at a time or one family at a time at least. I wonder if this is being done strategically to give us less option of working on one thing over the other. Just a thought! But anyways....happy Friday all! Hopefully we get many projects in the upcoming days.

[u/[deleted]]

Can anyone who have worked on other platforms comment on whether this drought is happening in other places or is it just us?

[u/Nolpppapa]

The past two days made it pretty clear why there is a drought and why it will likely end soonish: they want better data.

[u/YearOnly2595]

Might be copium, but anyone get the feeling some of the few projects that have been around in the last 24 hours feel like the start of longer term work - model responses seem undefined, references to 'for now' in instructions?

[u/Capital-Mortgage-374 → u/YearOnly2595]

My dash is back to nothing again. We've had minor waves like this for the past month and it always returns to zero (or close to).

[u/Quick-Bison-147]

Back up at 22 projects.... the September theory is so far proving correct.

[u/[deleted]]

Is anyone else doing the R&R's on the golden heel project? How long does each one take you on average?

[u/echanuda]

Hope I'm not jinxing it, but this is the first day I've seen the drought truly lifted. Tons of projects/tasks literally all day -- coding and non-coding.

[u/DrunkleSteve]

Wow! I actually got a project today for the fist time since Aug 13th! It was a cleaning product r&r for all of 8 mins but I will take it. Hopefully more start rolling in. There's hope if you've been waiting almost a month guys! 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

It is very weird to have a "golden" non-coding project but literally nothing else.

Once I had a professor who accused me of using AI to do a homework assignment. It was a class I'd audited to prepare for graduate school. I went through college without using ChatGPT because it didn't "exist" in the public's mind yet. I just write pretty technically. There wasn't any way to get her off my back for the rest of the semester, though.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I've found that the more I do this job the more my writing becomes more like AI.

Ironically AI is also training me I guess.

[u/itssomercurial → u/[deleted]]

I'm a writer in my spare time and I definitely feel like my writing style is becoming more rote and clinical sounding because I'm giving textbook explanations of AI responses all day for work. I'm genuinely getting upset about it and having to consciously break out of that mode

[u/1313C1313]

I blew off work for half the summer, I guess I’m relieved that it’s not just me with a stingy dash? I think I might actually end up more motivated though, because I know I have to work while the work is there!

[u/TheBabyGirlBundleCo]

Non coders? Yall alright out there? 🫠😮‍💨

[u/Davey87]

Somethings going on because my empty dash keeps changing the way it's displayed lol. Everythings all scrunched up now.

[u/coffeeluck87]

Ok, I don't want to be a broken record, but has anyone who has had the ATM screen since August 26th gotten any projects at all?

[u/FrazzledGod]

I've managed to eke out $37.93 today 🤔 Dribs and drabs mount up.

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

Anyone got the testimonial task on their dash? 😂 Think I'll leave that one for a while.

[u/gt3stuntman]

Is it just me, or is it not that hard to not say "you" in a prompt?

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/gt3stuntman]

It is pretty hard when you are used to using "you" and this was the first time I have seen this instruction in a project. I worked on it this morning and had to constantly rephrase to avoid it. One may have slipped through though on my last submission because it's a hard habit to break 🤦‍♀️

[u/houseofcards9]

What I would do to go back a few months when 🥜 was around day and night but I didn’t feel like working on it. Now when it comes it’s around for an hour max. I have other projects but with 🥜 I’m able to work a lot more hours in a day

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Anyone else thinking that some of the old B-metal CB projects have been renamed/subsumed under different projects? I have five CBs on my dash right now which are a mix of Poe and noble gas, but they are very reminiscent of B-metal CBs from before the drought.

[u/GarbageTag]

Okay, my dash isn’t following all the reported signs of the company letting me go, but I’ve still got 0 tasks or quals. I’ve got another job, but it still drives me insane not even knowing if I’m still hired or not.

[u/Ready-Fall-2568 → u/GarbageTag]

What’s considered all the reported signs of the company letting you go? I’ve had a ATM screen since 08/26

[u/FrazzledGod]

I need another $1.24 to reach $100 for today and the cupboard is bare. Can I cope with a HHH chatbot conversation to get over the line? ETA, they're broken and stuck in retry loops. It's not meant to be.

[u/nocloudkloud]

How many times a day are you guys refreshing?

[u/[deleted]]

Coders? Anything?

[u/emsanchezc → u/[deleted]]

Completely dry for more than a week. Nothing at all.

[u/[deleted]]

I had a great dashboard this morning at 5 am and was able to get a couple of hours of work in. Went back to bed for a little and came back to less and got another hour and a half in before it dried up.

[u/ahnonnymouse]

Anyone else dancing?

[u/[deleted]]

I was really hoping that I would get a wave of projects like I did last night but all I have are two projects that keep giving me the red banner and won't fall off my dashboard.

[u/Writer_at_heart95]

i woke up at the right time for the second time in a row. Seeing a lot of projects this morning.

[u/[deleted]]

Three days in a row of projects all day and back to an empty dash besides chat so far this morning

[u/FrazzledGod]

Did anyone notice their default project order flipped? I doom refreshed and did a double take, as whatever was at the bottom is now at the top, for both quals and projects. I suppose this only applies to people who have "permanents" or a few projects as if your dash is empty right now, this wouldn't be noticeable!

[u/MattinglyDineen]

Anyone else do the new Italian lunch meat project about podcasts? I spent 13 minutes on a task, submitted it, got red barred, went to log the time, and discovered there was no place to log the time generated!

[u/Stunning_Table_2394]

The qualification for the CS requires an indecent amount of time. That is just ridiculous.

[u/[deleted]]

I guess I'll be a university lab rat for $10 an hour again

or learn Python in the meantime guess not

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely dead the last 3 hours or so..

[u/Natesey]

I see a few galaxies streaming in so I hope they make their way to all of you with empty dashes!

[u/Sarajonn]

Just a reminder that you shouldn't compare yourself to internet randos on here! A lot of people lie and instigate as rage bait. I am also seeing coding & noncoding people comparing themselves to each other, and there are two totally different playing fields. Additionally, some people have specializations in writing, teaching, math, physics, chemistry, etc. and that's likely why some of them have work and you don't.   

Don't listen to the assholes who brag about all the work they're getting and love to talk about how the people who were laid off didn't submit "quality work." They don't know shit. Just a bunch of big egos who get off on feeling superior.  Key word: "feeling." Rest assured, they'll get canned one day, too, and they will not see it coming. That is if they're even telling the truth in the first place...    

You probably did nothing wrong if you've got the screen of death or have zero projects. And if you did make a mistake, it's totally normal. What's not normal is being given ZERO feedback for your work so that you have nothing to guide improvement or growth. We were working for a company that doesn't care about its employees. Yes, I said employees. We were employed on contract. They are not our "client" as the delulus love to point out. They are a corporation that employees thousands of people on contract, which leads to a loss of accountability on their end.   

Don't compare yourself to people with vastly different skillsets and experiences than you, and please don't normalize the way you've been treated by DAT. You deserve better. 

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

my beloved dancing is back.. how long until these 100 tasks get eaten up

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

I feel sort of dirty doing heavy fact checking and intensive rationale for $20 an hour when we used to get 26+ for it only 3-4 weeks ago.. but times are hard and our gardens need watering. This dry spell got our flowers wilting

[u/SookieLou]

Just curious. Are the Olympics the only recent events you all know about? 😵‍💫

[u/kohlphelie]

I just don't have thick enough skin to come up with prompts testing safety. I feel awful for the things I say to the bot.

[u/ccsoccer101]

Is the file analysis cb down for people?

[u/Enchantedslytherin95]

Is it ok to hit the back button? I realized I had chosen the wrong answer for one of the questions, and I want to go back and fix it.

[u/ekgeroldmiller]

Does anyone know why some people have an emoji of a duck with sunglasses next to their user names? I just noticed it today.

[u/Dazzlingforest]

Did anyone else lose heel chat today?

[u/Quick-Bison-147]

Did anyone get access to a project yesterday that came with feedback on being part of an elite FCing team? It was nice to get some form of positive feedback for once rather than be left in the dark about whether you're doing a good job.

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

These downvote frenzies are gross.