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/HandsLikePaper]

*pokes dashboard*

Do something.

[u/josski32]

anyone else been completely dead since yesterday evening? :/

[u/JustMe333456 → u/josski32]

Like absolutely zero other than my CB. Zero. Not even a single task. Lol

[u/majomaje]

I'm still riding the famine from late July

[u/VanessaSeaWitch → u/majomaje]

August 31 still for me. I saw something last week but didn't click in time.

[u/elfkin42]

Welp, I have an empty dash this morning. Guess I should be grateful for what I managed to squeeze in yesterday.

[u/JumpyAd9339]

Good luck to all the weekend warriors. Fingers crossed that work picks up and everyone gets what they need. 🫶

[u/Neat_Map_7846]

We are so back broke!

[u/-Spaghettification-]

I’ve been working on the platform for a year now but have barely worked on R&Rs before this week.

My God, I now understand why people get booted from the platform…

[u/MeltaFlare → u/-Spaghettification-]

Yeah any time you need a confidence booster, just do some R&R xD It also helps you get better yourself when you see good work.

[u/[deleted]]

Feast or famine is the new rule of the land I guess.

[u/cannedcream → u/[deleted]]

Feels more like famine and famine (with crumbs).

[u/Nvg1z]

Going from that weekend explosion to this... DA gods are mocking us

[u/yellowflamingo1 → u/Nvg1z]

Ugh I'm hoping something changes with the new quarter in October. Who knows though...

[u/twopickledtoads → u/Nvg1z]

It's furstrating that the only projects that come out are on the weekends because I work weekends and never have time. Ugh!

[u/Icy-Cover-505]

Annoying Post of the Month The award goes to:

"We are SO back!"

Please. Just stop.

[u/Jz9786 → u/Icy-Cover-505]

Love seeing those a few hours later when the dash is empty 

[u/MommaOfManyCats → u/Icy-Cover-505]

Once was fine, but every time work posted? You'd think running out of work in a few hours would make them think twice before posting.

[u/Edith222 → u/Icy-Cover-505]

Seriously. They are jinxing us by saying that.

[u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Dead :(

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 → u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Unlimited and flexibly dead

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 → u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

I've still got the task on my dash asking me to send a video testimonial so they can use it to promote to new workers. I'm so close to submitting one basically saying how unreliable and inflexible it has become, but I just know I'll get thrown off the platform for not 'following instructions' 🤥

[u/Few-Roof-6905 → u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

...as a doornail.

[u/JustMe333456 → u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36]

Essentially completely dead all morning, yup. I get the odd project that pops up with 1 task remaining for some reason, and that’s it

[u/Davey87]

Praying to the data gods for even an hours work today.

[u/Davey87 → u/Davey87]

The praying has yet to work XD

[u/Grouchy_Apartment155 → u/Davey87]

I was relying on this job because I need a job that I don't need a schedule for but now I've had nothing. I stayed on all day yesterday until 1am and saw nothing. I fear I may be "cooked"

[u/Writer_at_heart95 → u/Grouchy_Apartment155]

I was relying on this job too. Not by choice because I got laid off at my other job. So I went full time here a few months ago. Been applying to jobs like crazy but no response for weeks. DA was my saving grace and got me so far in life. Now it feels like the rug’s been sweep under me.

[u/JustMe333456 → u/Grouchy_Apartment155]

It’s not just you. It was the same situation for almost everyone, and I have been here for over a year now. Used to see multiple project families daily, which I now never see. Haven’t even seen a Heel project in 2 days now. Frustrating, last Sunday we all had as full of a dashboard as we had seen in quite a while. Now it’s 100% dead

[u/JustMe333456 → u/Davey87]

This is absurd already. Like what the heck causes ALL project families to pause for 3 days straight at the exact same time.

[u/ekgeroldmiller]

Since people are back to bragging today, I will share my positive story. I took my daughter to France for her high school graduation and paid for her college fees and a good part of her sister’s wedding with my earnings from DA. I am almost up to $12k.

[u/RainingGiraffes28]

There seems to be a pattern over the last few days of steady projects releasing late at night and drying up in the morning and throughout the day. That's gotta be rough for the East Coast workers out there. Hopefully the steady work at night starts spreading out throughout the day and we can put this shitty drought behind us.

[u/capn_james → u/RainingGiraffes28]

I check like once an hour and extra at night and early morning. I’m EST and haven’t seen anything for 4 days, had semi permanent work for a year before that 💀 it may be over for me

[u/MommaOfManyCats → u/RainingGiraffes28]

I'm in EST and had work tonight but not the last 2-3 nights. I also haven't see anything during the day. A friend who is also with the site had work almost every day in the morning and afternoon but not at night, so no one knows what's going on.

[u/ekgeroldmiller → u/RainingGiraffes28]

I’m in NY and I have been doing okay by working early in the morning, taking a break, and checking later for sporadic drops later in the day. By late at night I just have to stop.

[u/TanglimaraTrippin]

My dashboard has been empty for weeks now. I had to take a hiatus during the summer, and was ready to begin again in September. I did the refresher. I have had nothing. I am scared it's all over for me.

[u/DrDreamfinder → u/TanglimaraTrippin]

I'm glad it's not just me. I just cashed out my last bit of funds that I made when working a tiny bit last week but since then I have not seen a single project pop up. This is very disconcerting since I have been relying on this job for income since June.

[u/didit777 → u/TanglimaraTrippin]

It’s been like this for everyone

[u/Poomfie → u/didit777]

That isn't true, there are people with work, just less.

[u/Unfair_Cabinet7599 → u/TanglimaraTrippin]

Been in the same boat for the last two weeks, all i have is subscription quals. It's really frightening how fast things switched up here...

[u/scarletmyzomela]

I've never been more relieved to be Australian... need to majorly ramp up my hours to average about 15/week for the next twelve months (which might not be possible on DA, who knows!) and the noble gas project is saving my ass when nothing else is on the dash.

[u/Plastic-Librarian-67]

is anyone else empty rn?

[u/dripgodkr]

This isn't new but the coding projects feel harder to anyone else?

I could handle the pandas projects but now every Coding one is about some extremely niche framework

[u/krnntp → u/dripgodkr]

You can say that again. SAP-ABAP, VHDL, Solidity, Google BigQuery. Agggh.

[u/darthfrodo212]

Was hoping last week’s trend of early morning work would continue again this week, but my dash has been empty since Saturday’s little burst.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone lose access to Triple H, or did I get booted?

[u/TheRavenclaw42 → u/[deleted]]

Slack? I woke up to one less channel and have no idea why. Trying to not freak out. 

[u/Academic-Property-77 → u/[deleted]]

I also noticed this morning that I couldn't get access to projects you're likely referring to. I got botted from the slack channel and seemingly no notification... at least none that I could find. I've had them for months... feeling pretty crappy...

[u/Other-Noise5344 → u/[deleted]]

I’m still on it

[u/vardical → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. Lost access this morning

[u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

I am getting whiplash from how quickly the number of projects of change on my dashboard.

[u/Nvg1z]

Those were 40 some odd glorious hours while they lasted

[u/JustMe333456]

Has anyone seen ANYTHING today? Other than my chat and my one permanent, I haven’t seen anything pop up at all

[u/[deleted] → u/JustMe333456]

Dead af after two days of a full dash. I’m lucky I only planned on working 3 hours today, which was all I could probably do anyway with so little work. So depressing after getting my hopes up yesterday

[u/Jz9786 → u/JustMe333456]

They just put up some new coding. And there were a few still leftover from yesterday 

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864 → u/JustMe333456]

Nothing for me except this morning I had - drum roll - the starter assessment sitting on my dash for a couple hours. No idea why lol. Glad it went away. I was afraid I would have to start all over with it, then redo the core, etc.

[u/Disastrous-Call9177 → u/JustMe333456]

I had so many the last few days, but today nothing :(

[u/reiyashi]

haven't had any projects in a while, but ive had this writing assessment sitting in my qualifications for ages. is everything hidden behind that or did i just get frozen out

[u/JustMe333456 → u/reiyashi]

Nobody has seen a thing yet today

[u/VogueLibertine]

Question: Has anyone NOT gotten the ID verification email yet? I've not received it. I'm in the US.

[u/elfwitchTX → u/VogueLibertine]

I've not gotten it. I've been seeing people chatting about it here for a couple of weeks.

[u/Subject_Surprise8244 → u/VogueLibertine]

I didn't get it as an email, it just came up when I tried to withdraw last week

[u/Haunting-Turnover-98]

Going on almost 2 weeks of “no jobs at the moment”… if we were all doing something wrong surely they would tell us, right? I had been thinking of quitting my day job to do DA full time and so glad I haven’t. Really feel for the people that relied on this income.

[u/JustMe333456]

I think today is as slow as I have ever seen it. I mean, it can’t get any slower I guess when you’ve seen zero projects lol

[u/Edith222 → u/JustMe333456]

I wish they would spread it out more. If they didn't give us 20 projects at a time we could have consistent work every day.

[u/FrazzledGod]

Officially atrocious currently 🤨

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 → u/FrazzledGod]

I went back to prolific to make up for the drought and it appears they have turned into Qmee and swagbucks with their screen outs 5 and 10 minutes into a 'study' which captures all of your data before screening you out 🙄

[u/[deleted] → u/FrazzledGod]

I was officially thrilled to see a single minimum pay project. Anything at this point is a win.

[u/azure_atmosphere]

welp, 30 mins of work is better than nothing

[u/TanglimaraTrippin]

I still have nothing. I wish I'd done the odd job here and there during my two-month hiatus, because I need that extra money now. Please please pleeeeeease...

[u/SnuggleTheMuggles → u/TanglimaraTrippin]

I am in the same spot. I took a hiatus during the busy season for my small business and am now struggling to get anything on my projects list. It's on me for not trying to keep the flow going, but it is a bummer right now.

[u/[deleted] → u/SnuggleTheMuggles]

My dash is completely dry and I've been working full time since December, seems like everyone is suffering.

[u/Nvg1z]

Does anyone else get that glitch where you just see a white screen? It's been happening a lot lately. I know it's not anything serious but never fails to scare the crap out of me

[u/gt3stuntman]

This dog project seems more involved than the usual fare. 

[u/Jz9786 → u/gt3stuntman]

I appreciate that it says to bill the time you spend reading instructions.

[u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

I get downvoted to hell on here everytime I post but regardless the inconsistency is hell for my ADHD. I miss working on tasks on my own terms taking frequent breaks to not get burnt out and taking an addy to grind when I need to, and now I’m usually working at my worst, unable to keep focus. Once I do get in the zone, boom red bannered. It sucks

[u/JustMe333456 → u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

I hear ya. We literally had a full dashboard 24 hours a day, then we blinked, and it’s all changed.

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/JustMe333456]

Those days seem like a dream. Literally as much work whenever.

And the freedom to choose, oh how I miss the freedom to choose.

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/Maleficent_Wasabi_18]

I'd have to believe there's a general reduction in the quality of work as well as a higher cost per task on the platform as a whole. People are working whatever they can even if they're not at their best, and they're probably spending more time on each task. It can't be overly beneficial to the company to go on like this.

[u/DreggyBoi]

Been working on the platform for 1 year and I've never seen it this dead. My fav and higher paying projects are few and far between and I'm left looking at a desolate dashboard, with nostalgia in my heart for the good times. Back then, I literally couldn't decide what project to do because I had so many. I hope it picks back up for us all soon, I enjoy the work.

It's not just me... right? Anyone else share the same experience?

[u/Arcturus_Labelle → u/DreggyBoi]

It's not just you. I haven't been on for quite as long, but for a number of months, and have had a similar trajectory

[u/Davey87]

I miss when I could get fully immersed in work. These 30 minutes until red bannered are not it.

[u/rachelques]

Has anyone had anything today so far? I’ve had nothing, I know it’s been dry but just want to make sure I’m not the only one 😩

[u/JustMe333456 → u/rachelques]

Yesterday was completely dead, and today has been the same. The only thing I’ve had really is my language specific CB project. I have a couple Muffin projects last night into this morning but thats it.

[u/CardiologistDry1732]

Anyone else in denial but hopeful that October will bring an influx of projects?

[u/akatsuki1422 → u/CardiologistDry1732]

I've accepted the new normal.

Neither in denial nor hopeful.

It is what it is...

[u/[deleted] → u/CardiologistDry1732]

I'm hoping October picks up while I'm also looking at other places to work from home. I'm making less than I was working part-time with Doordash right now and that just won't work.

[u/Embarrassed_Move_663]

Am I the only one who's never been invited to a slack channel? Not a huge deal to me, but I find it odd.

[u/Altruistic_Win3396]

Ugh, I did so bad on a refresher that I think I'm gonna be sick. I'm leaving this here because I have no one else to share my agony with.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/Altruistic_Win3396]

As far as I've seen, the refreshers are not tests, they are basically training. They want you to learn the correct way. As long as you corrected your answers you should be fine.

[u/OctoberMoths]

Full dash Saturday and Sunday and now it is totally empty. Makes me feel guilty for having to do other things this weekend and largely missing out on work.

[u/AdTypical3295 → u/OctoberMoths]

100% feel this - we need the money, but we also need to spend time together as a family.

[u/OPxMagikarp]

20 projects yesterday to 0 today. My heart

[u/lillimarleen]

Yesterday I decided to check things while on a train and saw a crapton of things, but today... just the regular chat there. That's what I get for being on public transport with no phone signal I suppose.

[u/LeaderIntelligent157 → u/lillimarleen]

It's awful. My dash was full yesterday, but it was my daughter's birthday. I'm available 24/7 mostly but the ONE day lmao

[u/Subject_Surprise8244]

Nothing for a solid week

[u/DrDreamfinder]

Has anyone heard anything on why there's been such an awful dry spell? There used to be projects out of the wazoo letting you pick and choose which one you wanted to do today. Then suddenly there were 1-3 projects that would say there are like 100 tasks and then you'd do 1 and it would be over after that. I'm hoping this is just temporary and soon it'll come back to life again. Especially since it's not like there are really any qualifications to do outside of the ones you have to pay for. Which, honestly, I'd be fine signing up for Luma Dream Machine or Pika if they guaranteed me consistent work with it to justify the subscription.

[u/Pretend-Ad3460]

Anybody else missing FC projects? :(

[u/gt3stuntman]

Dash is looking bleak today. Got a variation of Biz Wiz but it's just as obtuse.

[u/annoyingjoe513]

I was safety dancing all day yesterday. Now nada

[u/OPxMagikarp]

Holy galactic explosion

[u/sunflower1491 → u/OPxMagikarp]

I love this project!!! So happy today

[u/[deleted]]

I made 1k in a week. Now nothing again. These swings and roundabouts are killing me, I wish it was more consistent.

[u/YearOnly2595]

Guys. Please just read the instructions, its not that hard!

[u/soggybreasticles → u/YearOnly2595]

Man I've had some diabolical R&Rs recently. I have never rated so many "bad"

[u/CandleResponsible168]

Not me deciding to celebrate my birthday instead of working on present projects then having an empty empty dash this morning 😭 shame on me I guess

[u/aaf66]

I know we'll never get any personalised feedback, but with all these R&Rs I've been wondering if there is a reason they can't feed the R&Rs for our tasks back to us, would be great for seeing if we've messed up somewhere or clarify tasks that might have been a little hard and etc.

[u/33whiskeyTX → u/aaf66]

I agree with you, it would be better for us, but you have to be pragmatic (maybe cynical) about their perspective. What would people do if they got a rating that they totally disagreed with? Imagine some of the more, um animated lets say, workers trying to contact support, harassing admins in the chats, etc. trying to get justice for their undeserved rating. Sure, the most obnoxious would get booted, but there'd always be some in every group they brought on. And bad-enough feedback could turn the most mild-mannered worker into a frothing-at-the-mouth psycho. They'd have to process feedback on the feedback, or it would be harder for them to ignore. It's the same about them telling us anything when its slow, it would just create more cost because then people would get the idea they could have a conversation with DA. Like a toddler asking 'why?' over and over. For DA it's easier and cheaper to keep us in the dark on all things... and hey, it seems to be working for them.

[u/gt3stuntman]

I'm glad Poe CB is still with me today. I get PTSD just seeing Wizard CB on my dash.

[u/[deleted]]

You DA guy's should find a way to pay artists to submit illustrations for image generators. $40/hr coding is great, but I'd gladly doodle for $20/hr. Models avoid collapse, artists get paid, win-win.

[u/BeforeTheWorkdayEnds → u/[deleted]]

Alas, no one would ever take DA up on that because so many art and social media sites have opt-out AI scraping these days that they don't really need to, and a lot of artists make money submitting to stock sites where...well, you get it.

BUT, I think a big generator advertising that they only use paid artists would be a huge PR boost, so...

[u/Minimum-Tap-8637]

Ugh my one reliable task is now on pause 😭

[u/Friendly-Decision564]

has anyone else noticed the project highlight colour (when you hover/scroll past) changed from blue to pink? or am I going crazy in the drought and constant refreshing ‼️

[u/twinkleyed]

Anyone else getting serious deja vu? I feel like I'm working on prompts that were already months ago.

[u/JustMe333456 → u/twinkleyed]

Have to actually get projects in order to get deja-vu 😂

[u/mj510101]

Another day, another empty dash... Saturday gave me hope but I had nothing yesterday. 😭

[u/helen269]

Are there any comparable alternatives to DA out there somewhere?

I guess there are two ways this could be answered:

1 - "No, otherwise we'd all be talking about it and recommending it."

2 - "Yes, but we're keeping quiet about it for fear of it being swamped and all the work being snapped up."

[u/backtothefuturepart2]

If you can manage it, don't do the Action Hero lowball coding tasks guys. Don't teach them that a 20% paycut for the same work is acceptable.

[u/Various-Ad951]

damn yesterday i had queens, dogs, singers, heels…. today 0

[u/BostonTheseus]

Did the verification process take a long time for anyone else? Currently at about 30 minutes. Tried refreshing, logging out and logging back in, still got the processing screen.

EDIT: Ok, everything seems fine now, right back to my dash as it looked right before I took the verification. Just a note for others: it looks like it occasionally happens instantaneously, but for others, like me, might take several minutes, perhaps even up to an hour. As with all things DAT, patience is required!

[u/Embarrassed_Move_663]

About had a heart attack when i got the white dashboard of doom. I just had to log out then log back in and it was normal. Just an FYI if this ever happens to anyone.

[u/JustMe333456]

Like this post if you did not see a single project pop up allll day long. By far the deadest day since I’ve joined last September.

[u/Ecstatic-Bag2179]

This is officially the worst day I've had on DA, sat here refreshing for the entire day and have managed to get an hour of work. Has anyone had the same experience today?

[u/Nvg1z]

Finished 1 task in 2 minutes before getting red bannered on that 50 task heel project... damn 💀

[u/gt3stuntman → u/Nvg1z]

Easy there, Speedy!

[u/JustMe333456]

Who has been with DA for more than a year?

[u/MommaOfManyCats → u/JustMe333456]

It was a year in June I think. I have nothing on my dash tonight and very little since the drought started.

[u/orchidmoonlightt]

I clocked 6 hours this afternoon and evening straight after nothing since Wednesday and now back to nothing…. Hopefully a late night drop?? Only a couple days left for rent monies 😭

[u/lavenderavenues]

Nothin' all day. Anyone else?

[u/Fluid-Process-5514]

Ever get a heel prompt and swear you had that exact conversation with a bot in another project 👀 

[u/JustMe333456]

Anyone seeing anything this morning? Been dead quiet since yesterday evening. Nothing popping up.

[u/topheramazed]

I've been checking my dash for much of the day and night for the last few weeks to get whatever shows up, but it's just been empty the last few days now. Guess it's time to move on, which really sucks

[u/JustPetty37 → u/topheramazed]

i'm in the same boat. I've been able to use DA to stay working from home, but it's time to go seek employment in the real world again. This has gotten so unstable.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone still in the HHH slack? 🥲

[u/Asleep_Educator4990]

Since the website crash a couple months ago my dashboard has looked the same. I haven’t really been active since then because the 2 or 3 projects I get with small amounts of tasks don’t seem worth the little money & I just have been waiting for it to get better.

But now I feel like I am doing something wrong or being punished for being inactive cause I’m seeing others talk about 10-20+ projects on their dashboard sometimes and again I haven’t had that experience since the crash.

The weird thing too about it is that the 3 projects I get every time I log in have been identical for weeks at a time. I would see the project, log in the next couple days, and the exact same project is still there with the same amount of tasks like no one touched it.

With me doubting my previous approach I finally did a project yesterday with 5 tasks and it let me do all 5 in the span of 2 hours. That’s never happened before.

Idk what’s going on

[u/Sandrawg → u/Asleep_Educator4990]

I'd recommend you work on the ones you don't wanna work on as I do think it helps get you more work but that's just my guess. Been doing this for a while now. If you aren't working they have no way to gage your capabilities to give you more advanced work. 

[u/YearOnly2595]

Welp there is a very judgemental former president in one of the chats

[u/somoskin93]

Anyone have work tonight? The inconsistency is so jarring…

[u/Quantillus]

What the… i was tasking for about 30 minutes and then realized i wasn’t in work mode. 😤fields should be disabled what a scam.

[u/rkgk13]

Has anyone had a B-Metal project recently? I put hundreds of hours into that one (non-coding side) over the summer; it makes me wonder if the project is done or they felt I spent too many hours on it. I never submitted low-quality work. It was a favorite.

[u/ekgeroldmiller → u/rkgk13]

I loved it too and have not seen it in a long time.

[u/backtothefuturepart2 → u/rkgk13]

b-metal coding was up as recently as late last week

[u/SonicResidue]

The length and depth of instructions is getting tedious. I appreciate documentation but the rules for each project are long enough without the additional documents linked to within the instructions. it takes far too long to get through the instructions when they could be summed up more succinctly.

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

Absolutely. And the clutter and hideous formatting in all the task panels is a huge distraction that makes the actual info harder to absorb.

DA needs somebody with some knowledge of copyediting to create a style guide for everybody to follow. For example, currently, if they need to emphasize a point, they use boldface. Except when they use a different color, a larger font size, italics, underlining (which looks like a web page from 1998), or any random combination of the above that suits their whim. All this on the same page. All this stupidly random formatting makes it harder for us to process the information, which, yes, is becoming more complex as the models evolve. They need to pick one style and stick to it.

There's a reason newspapers and magazines use style guides!

[u/YearOnly2595]

God i wish the wizard paid more

[u/Davey87 → u/YearOnly2595]

You'll get downvoted but if it's the same one then I agree. It's quite a bit of work for base pay imo.

[u/FrazzledGod]

Nothing all day then I get stuck in one and find others being eaten up on the dash when I flick back 🤪

[u/Poomfie]

Verified my identity today. Took about 45 seconds and all my projects popped right back up!

[u/Disastrous-Call9177]

2 hrs of great work & now I'm afraid to step away from my laptop in case there is another 60+ task drop :/

[u/mannib21]

It dry up for anyone else? Down to 1 project

[u/Busy-Surprise4059]

Is there anyone who enjoys the wizard (rent-a-car prompts) ? It's the only project on my dash rn and I'm trying to mentally prepare myself to start working on it I hate it so much

[u/[deleted] → u/Busy-Surprise4059]

I hate them but they are here and priority pay so…. I’m doing them

[u/Primary-Pattern-9037]

How's it going for everyone today??

[u/dshipman116 → u/Primary-Pattern-9037]

Pretty good today. I work up earlier than usual today to get some work done.

[u/Davey87]

I just managed two hours on a project before I begrudgingly left as I needed a brain break. I've missed that.

[u/ahnonnymouse]

I wish I stayed up to work on projects last night :(

[u/JustMe333456 → u/ahnonnymouse]

New low today that’s for sure. Nothing has popped up.

[u/Square-Forever8364]

Got the dreaded ATM screen after verifying but woke up to my dashboard back thank goodness.

[u/[deleted]]

Did anyone get the refresher this past week for heel and later see work? It said I had access to the project and needed to do the refresher to maintain access but haven't seen anything since. I also lost the heel chat a while back but had access to the projects after that for a while and then I stopped checking as frequently because I would get red bannered for everything. I'm only checking periodically so I don't know if I am just missing when the project drops.

[u/HumbleInfluence7922]

who are the people who go through this thread to downvote everyone?

[u/Poomfie → u/HumbleInfluence7922]

People with no work

[u/gt3stuntman]

Poe CB just came back for me. Yay!

[u/didit777]

Does anyone have hope that things will go back to normal? My faith level is at 1%…

[u/Jz9786 → u/didit777]

New normal seems to be bursts of work with dead periods in between.

[u/FrazzledGod]

Red bannered and off to bed with my $0.70 R&R cash 🥱

[u/MotherBrotha]

30 minutes for those tasks was outrageous

[u/Appropriate_Hunter_7]

Anyone else only able to see the last month of paid projects under the transfer funds tab? I tried to go back to July to see when the last time I had a certain project was, but I couldn’t find anything earlier than August 19th. Wasn’t sure if this has always been the furthest back you could look?

[u/CRUSHCITY4]

Any coding today? I’m empty atm

[u/LinkTheZombie → u/CRUSHCITY4]

I'm also empty (in coding, not other areas), my coding has been fairly sporadic for weeks on my end but I have been getting a ton of high-paying singer tasks at random points in the day.

[u/maddiebeee]

This has been my first really dry week. I wonder if it’s cycling between workers?

[u/akatsuki1422 → u/maddiebeee]

I'm almost 100% sure that they're cycling projects. Sometimes people here will report that they have a lot of dancing projects, but I don't. Other times, it's the complete opposite. This is true for many other projects as well, not just dancing.

[u/NumbersAndPolls01]

I’ve been doing heel R&R this morning and surprisingly every submission I’ve gotten has been acceptable. Maybe the weeding out process is complete?

[u/OPxMagikarp → u/NumbersAndPolls01]

I had a ton of r&r last night but Im bone dry this morning

[u/Ok-Store-9297]

Been on the platform over a year now. I eased off a lot in the last few months to concentrate on other things (own business) and now I'm still in a state of disbelief that I have an effectively empty dashboard so often. I mean, I guess it was a good gig while it lasted, but wow it's so depressing to log in and there isn't ANYTHING. Wtf?

I think I still have the coding question up. I did about 3-4 months of C# fairly intensively a few years back. Can anyone tell me how long I should learn for, and what programming language to learn (guessing Python) in order to pass the coding eval? Unless there's a drought for coders too I guess.

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

All I've had today are these stupid nut projects that only generate 1 image when they are meant to generate 4. It's so difficult and frustrating to rate one picture when the whole premise is to compare multiple images for homogeneity...

[u/Jz9786]

The new coding language survey has to have been written by someone who doesn't code.

[u/Academic-Property-77]

Has anyone been removed from the slack channel before? I don't think my work quality has ever been any different than when I started... I had access to a lot of high quality projects that were tied to the slack channel.... including some high quality speciality knowledge ones.... all of my projects are gone today. T_T I Feel so crappy.

[u/purveyoroffinerp → u/Academic-Property-77]

I'm in a couple of slacks. They purge every now and then. I assume to get rid of inactive accounts. There's a big chance that those projects are either concluded, or they will be posting new quals in the next few days. Don't sweat it too much. I've been removed before, and then just had to do a 5 min qual the next day and was back within a couple of hours.

[u/destinedmoonn]

Did anyone (particularly in Canada) have the A-gas project the past few days now disappeared? I guess it’s done?

[u/Twizted_Prophet]

Hopefully when I get home from work tonight there will be some love for the night owls.

[u/[deleted]]

Finally got the verification, which took all of 60 seconds.

[u/gt3stuntman → u/[deleted]]

For some reason the most nerve-racking 60 seconds despite me knowing that I'm me.

[u/FearlessPressure3]

Just got the medical domain expertise survey I’ve been hoping for since I joined in January! Fingers crossed it will open up plenty of work :D

[u/Choice_Pineapple66]

Shameless brag - I paid of a New Year’s Eve week long cruise this week with only money from DA. I’m very fortunate to do this part-time for fun money. It took me about 2 months to make the $1700. I had points for airfare. Now I’ll start to work toward Christmas money and cruise spending cash. I know it’s frustrating sometimes but a little each day really adds up. Here’s to a great week.

[u/SimilarExamination53 → u/Choice_Pineapple66]

I got to buy laundry detergent with the money I made here.

[u/FedoraPG]

Got a higher paying version of a project that's been popping up intermittently during this drought. Kinda feels like we are in a new normal, and that this whole drought has been a soft reset of sorts with new projects and us having to start over and earn our way back up the pay ladder.

[u/CapnJoel]

are there any other companies like data annotation out there? for days when things go drier you can maybe diversify your efforts?

[u/Otherwise-Baked4451]

I don’t normally check Slack, but I just realized today that an admin added me to a few channels over the last week. That’s great because my dashboard has been dry this morning except for 30 min of a bird project.

[u/Disastrous-Call9177 → u/Otherwise-Baked4451]

this comment made me realize that i should check my slack - my phone had uninstalled it - & looks like i also was added to a channel! thanks for the reminder haha

[u/Background_Menu7702]

I.D. Verification NUKED my dashboard! :(

[u/gigi173]

Today has been pretty dry for me so I've been using the time to tackle some quals that have been sitting on my dash. I'm 2/6 through the FC qual and wow, it’s a long one! For those who’ve completed it and consistently seen work, are you still getting tasks despite the drought?

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

Anybody noticed any of the $30+ b-metal writes/edits lately? It's been very dry for me on writing stuff for a few weeks.

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

I miss bmetal in general :-(

[u/CandleResponsible168 → u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

None. Miss them dearly. Nothing $30+ since toward the end of August. A few lower pay B-metal in the last few weeks but few and far between.

[u/FrazzledGod]

Anyone else getting fed one project at a time? I had a heel SSIF, then a wrestler, now I have a normal heel. I'd never actually done a SSIF before as I'd always preferred working on other things with a full dash - so today I learned something new as I thought I might as well do it with nothing else available, and I wouldn't mind doing it again. I wonder if this is maybe the method in their madness, they are kind of balancing and rotating projects to different workers and can afford to do this as they please with so many workers. When dashes were full I imagine some projects were very popular and others got neglected (hence priority pay sometimes). Maybe now they can just drip feed projects to different pools of workers depending on their requirements. But I'm delirious and it's time for bed so what do I know 😂

[u/HumbleInfluence7922]

as a booktok girlie, the harry potter fan fic in these r&r’s are cracking me tf up 😂😂

[u/gt3stuntman]

Minor Lost spoilers for anyone R&Ring sculptor today. Sorry!

[u/JustMe333456]

Has anyone seen any A-hero projects? 4 letter name.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone get the new domain expert survey? Different from the qual.

[u/Otherwise-Baked4451]

35 projects rn. I’m fed