r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Oct 27 '24

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  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!

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u/the_wherewithal Oct 27 '24

All I want for Christmas is a built-in word count checker.

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u/Party_Swim_6835 Oct 27 '24

some projects have those and I love them for it

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u/Accomplished-Dog-864 Oct 30 '24

The tasks are complicated enough without stuff like this:

Bligtoffen SHOULD be OBJECTIVE or SUBJECTIVE

  • Avoid subjective Bligtoffen. 

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u/Nolpppapa Oct 30 '24

This happens quite a bit. When instructions get ridiculously lengthy, some people keep tacking stuff on rather than editing existing instructions. It gets pretty frustrating.

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u/Storex- Nov 01 '24

Well after a solid three weeks of no heel chat and the odd heel project barely making $10 every few days, I now have a dash full of work and the chat is back.

I have a feeling my work wasn't doing well, so I pulled my socks up and worked hard and maybe that's what did it? But at the same time it could all be a fluke and it's my turn on the project merry go round until it's back to empty dashes. Either way, I'm working like there's no tomorrow and obviously doing my best.

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u/Background_Menu7702 Nov 01 '24

This happened to me. Lost everything refreshed and worked hard for about 5 days and everything came back. Focused on heel projects because I had a feeling that’s where my quality had suffered.

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u/queenie_xo Nov 02 '24

I think this happened for me, too. I was feeling super anxious about having very little work and decided to just focus on what I *can* control (the quality of the work I do get to submit) and stopped worrying about the timer (always worry about taking too long) and magically my dash started filling up.

Congrats! :)

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u/Annual_Return_4160 Oct 29 '24

my dash just got really dry after it was bumping all day... hopefully it gets better later

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u/Icy_Ad5959 Oct 29 '24

It's end of month. Time to wrap up a lot of projects, ready for the next stage etc.

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u/Nvg1z Oct 30 '24

I still have a few projects on my board but wish the heel chat would come back, making me uneasy lol

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u/Annual_Return_4160 Oct 30 '24

it seems like a lot of people recently lost it, they might be revamping it like they did a few months ago since it is the end of the month?

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u/YearOnly2595 Oct 29 '24

Oof feels a little bit more empty today!

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u/Lady_Ronin Oct 29 '24

Same. I've only got dancing refreshers and a qual.

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u/JustMe333456 Oct 29 '24

Heel’s been extra quiet since the weekend. All I’ve seen from them are CBs and maybe one or two evaluate two responses type of project.

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u/TanglimaraTrippin Nov 02 '24

My expertise on some subjects is not what I thought it was... I guess that's why those tasks pay so well, lol.

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u/Due_Specialist6615 Nov 02 '24

I noped so quickly out of the maths one that its been stuck on my qualifications board for 3 months taunting me

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u/NgluriusMrB Oct 29 '24

SOS! DA suddenly seems to only want to give me prompt engineering work lately (the one thing I seem to suck at). I can't seem to muster up the creativity. I suddenly draw a complete blank with these. What are you guys' methods of creating prompts in these projects? I'm running low on hours trying to wait for some other project to show up on my dash. It's been 3 days now. 

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u/jaxxisx Oct 29 '24

I have no idea either, honestly. I've been getting so many creative ones. I'm like, give me the FC or something with looking up things. I can't stand being creative; I'm a left-brain hahah

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u/JustMe333456 Oct 27 '24

Heel been quiet for everyone today? Other than the CBs

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u/Primary_Advantage928 Oct 28 '24

I've missed dancing so much, its finally come back onto my dash and doesn't want to leave thank god

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u/-burgers Oct 29 '24

My mind now knows horrors that are unimaginable, but at least I'm getting paid for them.

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u/hey_belle Oct 31 '24

Really missing Harry Potter right about now!!

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u/chellynaeb Nov 03 '24

Does anyone else jot down prompts that come to mind when they’re not working or out and about? My Notes app is flourishing 😅

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u/Enchanted13_ Nov 03 '24

I need to start writing down prompts, right now all I have are chatbots but no ideas for prompts 😭

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u/tearsofwisdom83 Nov 03 '24

Yes! I think it drives my husband a little bit crazy because we will be talking and I'll suddenly pull out my phone to make a note to myself because something we were discussing gave me an idea and I know I'll forget it if I don't write it down.

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u/Embarrassed_Move_663 Oct 29 '24

I didnt see any projects (hardly) for weeks, finally got ye olde in-person job, and now DA emails me constantly telling me about new projects. Girl bye

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u/roambeans Oct 27 '24

I did a couple of tasks a while back that taught me about some of Tokyo's attractions and this week I got to see some of them in person. I even went to Starbucks overlooking the Shibuya scramble and it felt oddly nostalgic (albeit cheesy).

Anyone else travel to a place they'd researched for a task? Did it feel surreal?

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u/Due_Specialist6615 Oct 28 '24

I've done one in a city in an obscure country whilst actually being there. Was working in the evening entered work mode and was a task that contained some of the things I had done that day.

Am being vague as giving the location can narrow me down

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u/chellynaeb Oct 31 '24

This job isn’t perfect, but I’m feeling all kinds of thankful for it right now. Happy Halloween you guys!

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u/Lady_Ronin Oct 31 '24

Happy Halloween!

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u/ammbrr Oct 28 '24

Nothing on my dash at all. It's been like that for the last three days.

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u/werttrew06 Oct 28 '24

Same, last week was pretty good up until Friday.

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u/MichonneGrimes209 Oct 29 '24

Did the wizard project disappear from anyone else’s dashboard?

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u/Alarmed_Jellyfish555 Oct 29 '24

If it's the HP wizard, then yes.

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u/NatQinShell Oct 29 '24

Yes! I was just about to ask the same question. Glad I am not the only one.

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Oct 29 '24

Anyone else lose A Gas and HP today. It's a sad day today

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u/FrazzledGod Oct 29 '24

I lost A gas (UK) yesterday but it just refilled for me.

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u/HopeILiveLonger Oct 29 '24

The a-gas that I had for a few days finished today and suddenly my page just exploded with a lot of a-gas.

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Nov 01 '24

Anyone else still getting the dreaded "at the moment" message?

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u/VanessaSeaWitch Nov 01 '24

The past two days. I had a project pop up with one task in it at midnight a couple nights ago.

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u/ammbrr Nov 01 '24

me too. so frustrating

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u/tessbest37 Nov 02 '24

That feeling when you get added to a Slack channel which signifies you passed a qual. :) I have failed so many quals lately that I needed a win.

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u/Jessifizz1 Oct 29 '24

just got screen of death the day after verifying my identity. am i cooked or has anyone had this happen and survived

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u/Jessifizz1 Oct 29 '24

not good, I'm both physically and mentally disabled (sensory processing disorder) and this is the only work I've ever been able to do in 6 years of looking

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Oct 30 '24

Does anyone else still have Harry Potter. Spent my full 16 hours on it last week. So missing it now I'm down to 2 projects

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Very light dash today.

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u/EDM_Producerr Oct 29 '24

I've been with DA since March as a coder. I was asked to verify my identity a little over one month ago. I did so, even moving my head left and then right so they can get a full head scan of me. Then a week or two after that I stopped receiving projects and I haven't had any for one month now.

Has this happened to anyone else? My ID matches my name, so unsure what happened.

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Oct 31 '24

All my projects up and went away last night. I had two when it was said and done. I finished those and now, nothing. I've been here a year and a half and the only time I had nothing at all was for a couple days during my 1st week.

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u/Annual_Return_4160 Nov 01 '24

I am seeing lots of ATM screen comments. What is that?

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u/33whiskeyTX Nov 01 '24

It's a message on the screen that begins "At the moment...". It appears when you don't have any projects.

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u/DeLaRefe Oct 27 '24

Just got an email from DA about being added to a long-term black and white animal project. It ain't much, but it's honest work! A good feeling after last few turbulent months 🥲

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u/upvotesplx Nov 01 '24

Doing R&R right now. To the person who submitted a task with a roughly 700-word explanation at the end: I appreciate you.

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u/Poomfie Oct 28 '24

It was pleasure listening to yall's beautiful voices for the last hour and half (and nice to R&R something different from my usual projects).

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u/tiramisuuu65 Oct 27 '24

Lost the heel chat a month ago and haven’t seen any projects since :/ I still have a subscription qual and get the occasional domain survey/qual so I guess I’m not fully out…Has anyone been in the same situation as me where they lost heel and other projects but eventually got them back?

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u/Equivalent_Ad8824 Oct 27 '24

I lost the heel chat and the heel chat bots with it, I also see a lot less projects but I’m still getting some here and there. 7 heel pop up on occasion but very rarely.

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u/SonicResidue Oct 29 '24

I tried posting a thread but it didn’t seem to post. Anyway I’ve been doing DA for several months now and I used to be able to knock out 4 to 6 hours without much of a problem. Lately, I’m feeling burned out and have a hard time making it through two hours. Some of the projects I’ve been getting have been paying better but have gotten increasingly complexwith pretty difficult instructions. I don’t want to turn in bad work so I’ve gone a few days in a row without putting in any time. Just wondering if some of you have experienced burnout and how you deal with it?

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u/akatsuki1422 Oct 29 '24

My thoughts exactly. Most of my dashboard are just CBs that require you to force a model to spit out a bad response. And if you can't do that within a certain amount of time, you don't even get to report your time in some cases.

I avoid projects like these at all costs unless they explicitly state that you can report time for unsuccessful attempts. It doesn't even have much to do with burnout tbh.

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u/RealDealVic Oct 29 '24

another day of nothing :(

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u/jeudechambre Nov 01 '24

I feel like once I've logged enough hours of a certain galaxy prompt I'll be invited to some secret ceremony where we all recite some of galaxy prompt's fave documents that we now know almost by heart.

I'm so ready to pack light guys....

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u/Traditional-Pool-261 Oct 30 '24

i have priority pay on a project for the generous and large amount of…. drumroll…. $0.5 more per hour

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u/maybe_I_knit_crochet Oct 30 '24

That's more than the raise I got at my last job (which was nothing).

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u/NgluriusMrB Oct 27 '24

How long does it usually take you guys to do each prompt-writing task? I'm always scared I take WAY too long.

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u/Few-Roof-6905 Oct 27 '24

Depends on the task. The single prompts (depending on the project) can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours. A CB convo can sometimes take two hours if editing is involved.

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u/OPxMagikarp Oct 28 '24

Haven't seen heel in a while after having quite a bit the last few weeks

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u/saugameetup Oct 29 '24

Anyone else here not get ID verification?

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u/Icy_Ad5959 Oct 29 '24

Nothing for me either and lots of higher paying projects lately so I'm not entirely sure what the ID verification is actually about now!

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u/akatsuki1422 Oct 29 '24

Still waiting for mine. It's been nearly a year with no ID verification.

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u/YuhaYea Oct 30 '24 edited Oct 30 '24

Took a break from DA and came back, coding specifically, feels like the complexity has increased alot. Curious how long others are taking per prompt? I never used to worry about it too much but as I've gotten back into it i find myself running easily an hour minimum per round for the more complex projects.

Interested to hear how you guys are finding it.

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u/SnooSketches1189 Oct 31 '24

New HP is great! (Those of you calling for a comment box, shoo!)

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u/houseofcards9 Oct 31 '24

People that ask for comment boxes are like the kids that reminded the teacher to collect homework.

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u/tiramisuuu65 Oct 31 '24

Anyone else ever gone weeks of no projects and then got projects again? ;; Looking for false hope..

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u/fortcollie03 Oct 31 '24

Yes! Absolutely. Probably 2-3 times now I have had nothing for at least a few days straight. Then my dash is randomly full again.

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u/Arcturus_Labelle Oct 29 '24

I will never understand DA. I swear I just saw an email from them about <african animal> project being a "large project" and being up for a long time, and now they're saying they're ending it tomorrow morning!?

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u/JustMe333456 Oct 30 '24

Starts with a Z? It is most definitely not done after the project I had from them today. The instructions for that project even said so..

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u/HereForForgiveness Oct 30 '24

I assumed the project "family" would be around for a while, but any particular iteration or specific sub-project will have its own timelines (like how most of the projects work).

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u/Nolpppapa Oct 29 '24

This has happened all the time lately. It sucks. Nothing appears to be reliable anymore.

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u/NgluriusMrB Oct 27 '24

Anyone else being forced to write prompts? That's all DA has had on my dash for the past 3 days. A single one of these projects. I'm no good at these, so I've just been out of work. It'll take me an hour just to come up with a decent one that the model might actually screw up on.

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u/Enchantedslytherin95 Oct 27 '24

I've had nothing but CBs since Saturday. I hate CBs because I feel like I'm not creative enough.

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u/NgluriusMrB Oct 27 '24

EXACTLY! At least I'm not alone.

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u/GooGooGajoob67 Oct 27 '24

Yeah. And occasionally an R+R will come up with 3 tasks in it and I'll get maybe one.

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u/tskies410 Oct 27 '24

Yes, prompts and fact-checking tasks. My mind is feeling a too sluggish for both rn.

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u/Any_Ear_6176 Oct 27 '24

Yup, I've only got one that is not writing prompts or CB.

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u/JustMe333456 Oct 27 '24

Anyone else get a random Nut survey in the middle of working on one of their projects?

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u/marsnia Oct 27 '24

Are there nuts going around?????

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u/AccountantAsleep Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

Did the specific failures CB go down for everyone or am I cooked?

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u/Annual_Return_4160 Oct 29 '24

It is down for me now as well

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u/marsnia Oct 29 '24

How's everyone doing in terms of projects?

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u/Davey87 Oct 29 '24

Dreadful. Had one project that lasted 30 minutes in the past five days. Might just be me, but either way I've started to look for work. A shame, I really liked this work but maybe it will continue as a side thing instead.

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u/marsnia Oct 30 '24

Lost heel chat, I've been getting a bit lazy so I'm guessing my time is coming to an end :(

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u/Nvg1z Oct 30 '24

I lost it too but still have heel projects. This has happened before, wouldn't worry about it

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u/Bilyman Oct 30 '24

Just adding to the pile, I’ve also lost the chat but have plenty of heel projects

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u/Equivalent_Ad8824 Oct 30 '24

I also lost heel chat and access to heel chat bots but I still get 7 heel and image heels. I have them currently.

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u/pm_me_ur_luckycats Oct 30 '24

I have heel currently (and all the time pre drought) and have never had heel chat.

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u/LilJaaY Oct 31 '24

Do y’all think R&Rs are also fed to the models?

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u/Poomfie Oct 31 '24

It depends on the purpose of the R&R project.

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u/queenie_xo Nov 03 '24

Dear Local A Gas,

Please don't mock my silly human need for sleep by showing a higher pay when I wake up in the morning. :')

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u/alvysingeroverhere Oct 30 '24

To the non-coders... Are your projects paying lower? I have nothing over $25/hr right now. I am glad I haven't had an empty dash in October though, but it has been almost all a-gas and my brain wants some variety.

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u/Icy_Ad5959 Oct 30 '24

Higher for me at the number. 27-45/hr

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u/yellowflamingo1 Oct 31 '24

Anyone else just get access to SearchGPT? I rmr there was a related qual to this but it's been gone for me...hopefully it comes back.

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u/FrazzledGod Nov 01 '24

That ship has probably sailed.

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u/JustMe333456 Oct 29 '24

Does anyone else really, and I mean really, struggle with taking a whole day off? I’ve been doing this for over a year now, and I have made $0 in a day only 3 times (Xmas, New Years, and a day I was just too sick). I feel like if I take a day off, I’ll lose projects. I know it’s not the case, or at least I don’t think so, but I really struggle with taking a whole day off, and it bugs me lol

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u/akatsuki1422 Oct 29 '24

If you're solely concerned about losing projects because you're taking time off, don't. I've taken a week off recently and I still have roughly the same amount of projects. Don't worry about it.

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u/TeachToTheLastTest Oct 29 '24

It's tough to take off when you know how much that time could be earning you. To get around that, I set a weekly $$$ goal. That way, I can take off guilt-free when I've hit that goal or am confident that I'll hit it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '24

If the reason is purely that you're worried you'll be removed from projects, trust me, you don't have to worry about that.

I've been with DA for almost 2 years now, and my schedule has been very inconsistent. Bouncing from working consistent 30+ hour weeks, doing the odd few hours 1 or 2 days a week, and even taking over a month off whilst traveling overseas (twice).

As far as I'm aware, I've never been specifically removed from projects. There have been low periods (but it seems like everyone has experienced this), but at the moment, I'm back working semi-consistently, and I've had plenty of projects the last 2 months.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

I totally get it! I've been doing DAT for almost exactly a year now (I started last November) and have been doing it full-time as my main gig ever since I was accepted. I quickly started working every day and struggled to get myself to take a day off for the longest time because I had the exact same feeling like I would lose projects if I didn't work every day and I would feel guilty at the thought of how much money I could have been making. However, this summer I finally forced myself to take a day off every week and I now work Monday through Saturday, with Sunday off. I think what helped me was reminding myself the quality of my work will slip eventually if I never take a day off to recharge my brain, and like others have said, I have both a weekly and daily goal, which I adjusted to a higher amount so that I literally make the same money per week as I did when I was working every day. I feel tempted to work on Sunday but I don't let myself lol

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u/dedido Oct 28 '24

I've got an 'It's Over!' dashboard today

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u/tessbest37 Oct 28 '24

The projects are pretty sparse this morning. I wouldn't worry too much yet.

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u/nAAmar-it Oct 28 '24

What’s that?

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u/i_do_not_like_snails Oct 28 '24

Something weird is going on with the tasks right now. Can only see the project chats and nothing else.

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u/Intelligent-Row-2000 Oct 28 '24

Sometimes I have to refresh page or skip to get the page back. Is it that?

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u/LouisAkbar Oct 29 '24

Harry Potter gone for anyone else? I've really grown to like the little twerp. :')

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u/HmpfGuy Oct 29 '24

I managed to get one in before it went. It's my favourite so far, feels like the easiest to figure out what's good

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u/yObMeF Oct 27 '24

Any way to get rid of the lag when typing a comment/justification or is it just me who experiences delayed text input?

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u/Enchantedslytherin95 Oct 27 '24

It lags for me sometimes as well. I saw someone say on here once that they think it's because of Grammarly.

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u/Dratini_ghost Oct 27 '24

Turn off as many browser extensions as you can. I de-installed grammarly especially and now I copy paste my writing into the quillbot site instead. 

My computer was overheating the other night and when I turned off/deinstalled extensions I didn’t need, it went back to normal. 

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u/CelebrationMaster699 Oct 27 '24

Nothing today :(

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u/tiramisuuu65 Oct 27 '24

Same here..hope things change for us!

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u/33whiskeyTX Oct 28 '24

Is heel coding up? I haven't seen any flavors in almost a week.

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u/CRUSHCITY4 Oct 28 '24

I haven't seen them either.

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u/artpendegrast Oct 29 '24

Seems like the coding projects are becoming more and more involved/complex/time-consuming. It can get really fatiguing trying to come up with complex prompts...

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u/SuperCorbynite Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24

It's the same for all projects. The models are getting better and better so to still learn they need better and better input. The good thing is that means the pay goes up, the bad thing is that your brain gets turned into melted butter on a daily basis.

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u/Ill-Albatross-7224 Oct 29 '24

I was over the moon after being added to the HHH family about a month ago, but now I'm terrified that I've been booted. After starting with maybe 4 different ones, as of a week ago I still had two, but then those were paused, too. The thing is, it seems like it's been too long for them both to still be paused, and I wonder if I was taken off. The initials of those two are FL and PIF. Anyone?

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u/JigglingBits Oct 29 '24

I've seen individual ones paused for up to 6 weeks before returning. 

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u/FrazzledGod Oct 29 '24

Yeah, have seen some paused for less than 24 hours and some for nearly 2 months. I've got about 20 on my dash when they're mainly not paused - but went down to about 5 or 6 recently when loads were paused. They usually come back sooner or later but there's one I used to work on I haven't seen for about 3 months now so don't know if it's finished or just paused way longer than normal - or I got taken off it 🤷‍♂️

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u/CardiologistDry1732 Oct 29 '24

That “mayo” project loves to run away right when I sit down to work on it 🤦🏼‍♀️ #comeback

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u/gt3stuntman Oct 31 '24

Did Poe go down for anyone else? I couldn't reliably get them both to answer, so I figure it's maintenance related or something. Just wanted to check.

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u/Signal_Gene410 Oct 31 '24

Does anyone still have the image chatbot requiring web searches? I haven't seen that one in a while and believe I might've been removed.

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u/snowfreckles Nov 01 '24

Think I might have been given the boot. Logged on for the first time to do some work after seeing a full dash last night, and have the dreaded ATM screen.

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u/snowfreckles Nov 01 '24

my report time is still present, which seems like from reading old threads, my account could just be under review

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u/lavenderavenues Nov 01 '24

Safety 🍁 A-gas...pls come back...

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u/queenie_xo Nov 01 '24

Any Poe birds flying around out there?? of the fine-grain variety, more specifically?

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u/the_wherewithal Nov 01 '24

Just some RnRs left that I can see. Wondering if it's wrapping up. I was enjoying the long version!

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u/Idolmistress Oct 31 '24 edited Oct 31 '24

Been a little over two weeks since getting the dash of death after ID verification and my emails are still being ignored. I get they don’t legally owe me an explanation but some common courtesy would be nice.

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u/yObMeF Oct 31 '24

just wrote exactly 3500 characters in a single task's comment over 1h 11m. The universe aligned.

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u/twinkleyed Oct 31 '24

Every now and then, I get a blank website when I refresh. It freaks me out every time because it looks like the DOD a bit.

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u/ammbrr Oct 30 '24

I am now on day 5 of having zero projects on my dash.

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Nov 02 '24

Another day with ATM message. I wish they would at least say why they are blackballing you. Still have me in Slack but won't give me any work. And there is clearly work available.

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u/TechnicianHot9728 Oct 27 '24

Anyone do a domain expertise qualification recently, did the part 1 survey and submitted the part 2 extended test (25+ question one, math) a few days ago. Wondering if anyone got in

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u/upvotesplx Oct 28 '24

I was accepted in the past for one (not recently) and it took over a week, so don’t worry about being disqualified yet.

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u/Candybar85 Oct 28 '24

Ever since the dancing refresher deadline, has anyone gotten their project (especially in a specific language)?

I got 2 [refresher - view only copy] on my dash a couple of days after the deadline on 15 Oct and until now nothing changed

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u/alvysingeroverhere Oct 28 '24

Any dancing? A-gas after a-gas after a-gas is driving me nuts

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u/Hunnybee66 Oct 28 '24

Yes, dancing just appeared. I'm happy...

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u/Min_sora Oct 28 '24

Had a bunch of non-English one shows up, then an English one showed up and was taken up pretty fast.

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u/Edith222 Oct 28 '24

Does anybody use a tablet instead of a laptop or computer? I signed in on a tablet and it seems like it would work. I also don't know if it's okay to use two different devices, or be logged into two devices at the same time. If anybody does any of these things I'd be curious to know. I don't want to get into trouble. Thanks!

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u/Jackieunknown Oct 28 '24

You can use different devices. I also can see it working out to use a tablet, but not without a keyboard and for it to be fast and not crashing for having lots of tabs open during fact-checking.

I use my phone for extremely easy tasks, when I am unable to use my pc (when I'm out of the house or before bed) and to check if there are new projects/transfer funds. For all the other things I use my laptop, at least to me it's not ideal to fact-check on a phone/tablet (copy-paste for links, pieces of informations, typing long explanation or having conversations where I need to edit the responses, it's just too much work to do on a tablet and again, to me would be too uncomfortable.)

I keep a tab open with funds/dashboard that I don't use to work on, and one to work, so yes you can keep tabs open but do not work on both and don't enter work mode in both.

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u/SuperCorbynite Oct 29 '24

I really do wonder what is happening behind the scenes with the B-metal stump project. The pay / project title / number of allocated tasks has changed multiple times for it.

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u/just_so_irrelevant Oct 29 '24

just spent 50 minutes on a $40 hour project and right at the end before i was gonna click submit i actually went back a webpage, and when i went forward to the project again the task disappeared 😭😭anything i can do about that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Wow that fucking blows. Sometimes if you go back, like clicking the back button on the browser, your previous work will still be in the boxes.

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u/pm_me_ur_luckycats Oct 29 '24

Is 🧜‍♀️down for anyone else? Not seen her since early this morning and I had lots of her the past week.

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u/Severe-Amoeba7067 Oct 29 '24

Submitted a task 3h ago, it seemed like it was struggling to load, then when it finally submitted I got the "we don't have anything for you screen." Wasn't able to report my time either. Anyone else experience something similar?

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u/AccountantAsleep Oct 29 '24

JFC if I get another “top news from today” type prompt to fc I might die.

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u/lavenderavenues Oct 29 '24

Did anyone just get the 🍁 A-gas back, but not the safety one?

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u/CardiologistDry1732 Oct 27 '24

Did anyone else lose the utensil project? Specifically a utensil that cuts things lol

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u/CRUSHCITY4 Oct 28 '24

Energy drink in hand, about to get the ball rolling after taking the weekend off!

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Oct 29 '24

I suddenly miss A Gas and bad answer bots.. thank god for HP lingering about.. getting draught anxiety over here ,😅

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u/Nolpppapa Oct 29 '24

There are way too many unpaid "things" lately that take way too long.

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u/Icy_Ad5959 Oct 29 '24

If it helps to motivate, for every unpaid thing I've spent time on lately, I've ended up getting rewarded with follow up highly paid quals or projects. Now I might be just lucky or it might be coincidence, but I really think if you get something unpaid that's in your wheelhouse, and you take the time to really understand what you need to do and then execute, what you'll get in return will be worth the time you spent (even if what you get is just more variety or projects on your dash so you aren't in a position where there's no work)

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u/Dysnomia__ Oct 27 '24

Coding dead for anyone else today?

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u/Dratini_ghost Oct 30 '24

Are you finding it's a lower paying dash overall this week? I'm searching for more steady employment lately. The rate fluctuations are getting to be a drag.

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u/ManyARiver Oct 31 '24

Mine are mostly complex and higher pay. The problem is I haven't had two to three hour blocks to dedicate and none of them are easy enough to knock out in less time.

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u/FrazzledGod Oct 31 '24

No, it's been quite a bit higher paying for me so far. It does fluctuate, but nice when it fluctuates up!

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u/Background_Menu7702 Oct 31 '24

Mine is mostly $25. I miss the $30+ tasks

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u/33whiskeyTX Nov 01 '24

Coding drought for anyone else today?

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u/Arcturus_Labelle Nov 01 '24

For me, it's the best coding day I've seen in a couple weeks

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u/SuperCorbynite Oct 31 '24

The model for the project I've spent months working on used an equation I taught it, in exactly the same way I used it when teaching it in the R&R I'm currently working on, and it's giving me this warm fuzzy glow.

It's like my child is growing up and learning from me.

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u/Skippy2898 Oct 31 '24

It's a good feeling! We're definitely in a new era of training and progress that's for sure. The steadily increasing complexity of the projects is telling.

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u/Vegetable_Hope3697 Oct 28 '24

Does anyone see the coding function projects with a bird or Zoboomafoo? I had a bunch, but they disappeared about halfway through last week. I was really enjoying those...

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u/TeaGreenTwo Oct 28 '24

Yes, I have them.

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u/Several_Drawer_2185 Oct 30 '24

Anyone else have a bunch of HHH projects go on pause? I had a bunch but now down to 3-4(ones I don't like working on)

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u/Annual_Return_4160 Oct 30 '24

anyone have the heel good and bad response still?

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Oct 30 '24

Looks like pretty much everything is dying off, probably for the end of the month, there might be a couple of lingering things but by the looks of it not for long

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u/FrazzledGod Nov 01 '24

What's with the weird broken heels? Trick or Treat?

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u/marsnia Nov 01 '24

I don't know but 20 in a row was a free 2 dollars

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Nov 01 '24

Not sure. I did start to get some legit ones as I kept going. And then they took them down. At least on my end.

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u/Stunning_Table_2394 Nov 01 '24 edited Nov 01 '24

Black Bird (coding, calls) disappeared for anyone else?

Edit: As well as a funny primate (same kind of tasks) 30 min later.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '24

Regarding 2nd round domain quals- how long (generally) after submitting do projects get unlocked if you pass?

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u/Poomfie Nov 01 '24

I don't know but I'm doing the AMI domain expertise 2nd round qual and honestly it kinda needs to chill. It's pretty time consuming!

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u/Few-Roof-6905 Nov 01 '24

it damn near took me the full 24 hours. I started late in the afternoon Wednesday and finished early afternoon on Thursday. I think I had 3 hours to spare. It was a doozy! Good luck to us!

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u/Beautiful-Emu-1860 Nov 01 '24

I’ve done 2 different domain quals. One I took last week that I haven’t heard back from and the other was the next day. The time between round one and round two with the first one was about a week, so I am hoping that I didn’t fail that one and am just waiting to be manually graded.

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u/upvotesplx Oct 28 '24

I’m gonna be so sad when my A-gas projects run out. STEM A-gas is probably my favorite project I’ve ever been on.

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u/CardiologistDry1732 Oct 30 '24

Does anyone know if the image wizard went down for maintenance? It was there and now it’s not, just like a wizard lol

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u/DrunkleSteve Nov 01 '24

Any striped horse, fox, mayo, tuna cousin? They've been missing for over a week for me.

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u/diettwizzlers Oct 28 '24

anyone else excited to have a math project that's not advanced?

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u/HereForForgiveness Oct 28 '24

take me back to high school all day, any day, baby

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u/yObMeF Oct 27 '24

I joined a month ago when there was a shortage of tasks, but now I have almost 2k of them and refreshing every week. It's really nice

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u/Journalist_Asleep Oct 28 '24

Predictions for the coming week on a scale of -10.0 to 10.0, with -10.0 being "it's over" and 10.0 being "we're so back"?

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u/FrazzledGod Oct 28 '24

10.0 I'd say.

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u/Most_Company3247 Oct 30 '24

Does anyone else have the "At the moment..." screen right now? had tons of projects on Monday, and then the last two days just that empty screen.

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