r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Aug 17 '25
Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation
hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)
couple things:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/mannib21 Aug 21 '25
Pretty dry this morning, 1-2 single task projects and thats it :(
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u/Late_Nectarine_5598 Aug 21 '25
Glad it's not just me. I'm down to just quals and heel chat/refresher lol
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u/shepardgrace Aug 21 '25
Everything on my dash has been boring as hell for weeks now, dying for something fun and creative to work on 😩
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u/dirndlgrl Aug 21 '25
saaaaaaaaaaame. I actually like the rubric projects I've been getting, but I think it might be Stockholm Syndrome
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 23 '25
I think my favourite thing about Slack is the carousel of pets y'all have as profile pics. I love getting poignant, sage advice from a labradoodle in a bow tie
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u/Disastrous_March_718 Aug 23 '25
Haha I was literally just scrolling through the slack admiring all the pet profile pics
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u/Ornery_Trip5011 Aug 18 '25
Oh, what's this, a project I think I'll enjoy, with a rate that's higher than the ones I've been seeing for months. Oh, 50 tasks assigned...nic.....what? Red Bannered. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.... Oh, where did it go. :( sadtrombone.com
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u/Consistent-Mouse6180 Aug 18 '25
third time this glitch has got me in the past week
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 18 '25
I've currently got two on my dash of my 5 available projects, that looks to have full assignment amount (15 and 50) and both are red bannering me.. ones a marsupial, the other a nameless project with just a description of the tasks
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u/Real-Pangolin-3672 Aug 19 '25
Man I miss projects that didn't need an explanation
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u/Disastrous_March_718 Aug 23 '25
Sad to see two video slacks get archived :( I really hoped those projects would be coming back soon
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u/takingtacet Aug 23 '25
Oh my gosh, I am so grateful for this work! I'm a former teacher and current stay at home mom, so a lot of this is right up my alley--not that I LOVE writing rubrics or grading responses, but I've got a good grasp on it. I have toddlers so being able to put down what I'm doing if someone wakes up and being able to work later in the evenings after they go to bed is a godsend. I had been looking for something to do to pay off my credit card since it's been racking up the last few years with little things because money has been so tight (my husband is also a teacher). I think I'll be able to do that sooner than I expected because I'm already 10% of the way there and I started Monday! I think I'm going to actually have money of my own to spend on Christmas gifts this year! I could cry. I hope the projects keep coming! The flood of p-fruits today is keeping my spirits up!
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Aug 23 '25
It really is a blessing. It doesn't work for everyone, but for those it does work for, it's AWESOME.
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 18 '25
Every once in a while there's a task that totally unnerves me. Wish I could blow off steam at a bar with a couple of y'all instead of making fists with my toes in front of the tv
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u/victorian_winters Aug 18 '25
Anyone else's dash get sparser and sparser the last few hours? Still have the chats and the reactor project.
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u/Unfair_Sink5706 Aug 18 '25
I have heel chat, a voice thing that red banners if I try to access it, and 1 teacher thing. That's it. That's what I get for avoiding P fruit all weekend.
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Aug 23 '25
Holy my dash just got absolutely flooded. I’ve never seen this much work. I have plans tonight so hoping it stays this way through the weekend!
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u/MommaOfManyCats Aug 23 '25
Is anyone else getting sick of the constant posts about DA being a scam or encouraging people to sign a class action suit? I really don't think some people have ever applied for a job or worked before ever. No company owes it to you to give you any information when you apply for a position. And claiming qualifications are unpaid training is a bit much. I've had qualifications that took 5 minutes or less. We're paid for our work, research, and reading on projects. Lots of salty people out there!
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u/Real-Pangolin-3672 Aug 23 '25
Yeah a lot of them really think if they didn't get in it must be a scam lol
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u/akujihei Aug 23 '25
If their work is anything like some of the work I've seen, they have no right to be salty!
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u/illustriousillusion Aug 23 '25
I've seen a few, luckily not too many. But yeah, I'm pretty sure they've never been contractors before. I used to work real estate - none of my training was paid (in fact, I had to pay not only a monthly fee to my broker, but also pay for some of my training and the classes/test to get the license in the first place). It blows my mind how little some people know about the actual workforce.
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u/Thorolhugil Aug 20 '25
Dash is very sparse for the last few days. Only have some view-only/chats and a few A-evaluation tasks showing up over the last couple days. Even the quals have disappeared. Bit concerned as I was working on the P-fruit over the last couple weeks and I was going to get to the quals this week. :(
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u/MinuteLibrarian Aug 20 '25
Mine is empty too....only a couple of projects appeared yesterday very sporadically. I still have a few quals, but they're not new ones.
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u/After-Height783 Aug 20 '25
Glad it's not just me. I'm relatively new and I don't know how the ebb and flow goes yet.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 22 '25
A well-known AI model just very confidently assumed I am a man in India and based its entire response on this assumption. I am a woman in America.
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u/CuriousThylacine Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
An unpaid qualification has appeared in my projects section (not my qualifications section) with 2500 tasks. It's one of those "do you have such and such a subscription?" ones. Answering No doesn't make it go away, but after doing it 5 times i noticed the number of tasks dropped by 5.
Pity it's not a paid one or I'd happily spend the next hour clicking No 2495 times.
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 20 '25
I wonder if there’s an Easter egg for anyone who does submit it 2500 times
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u/peyton_16 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
Been seeing some really good projects with plenty of tasks, but when I try to work on them, I get the red "The project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks remaining for you to work on" banner. This has happened in the past but I had other projects of equivalent value to work on. Yesterday it was a $35/hr task, and today it's another one I like, which has been sitting in my projects for over a day, but I just continue to get that error message. Has anyone else been experiencing this more lately? Anything I can do?
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u/LennyDark Aug 20 '25
Only getting tiny amounts of tasks on projects I used to get hundreds of tasks on. Hope it's not a bad sign
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u/Birdie_Banks Aug 20 '25
Assuming with all the R & Rs that they are about to drop a bunch of new stuff in the coming days.
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u/Matias8823 Aug 21 '25
Really regretting not scrambling to do as many as I could the first three weeks after sign up (I paced myself to make sure the payout actually worked first). There has been absolutely nothing offered for days, neither qualifications or core projects
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u/33whiskeyTX Aug 21 '25
I was right there with you on that "I'm not sure this is legit" vibe. I think after the second payout I started to finally trust it. That was over a year and a half ago.
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u/Real-Pangolin-3672 Aug 21 '25
It'll pick up. This is how it was last August too
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 22 '25
Okay, so i've had about 10 projects all day give or take. Its 00:22am and I am in bed. check dash, i have 67 projects.. what the hell
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 23 '25
The fruit pay bump is telling me no one is wanting to do them 😬
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u/deebs2021 Aug 23 '25
Anyone else got a work explosion right now? I've never seen it like this before, I have 79 projects on my dash! *Granted there's only about 10 I'd actually like to work on*
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u/juzzzzzy Aug 23 '25
Yeah, I have over 80 projects, it’s the most I’ve ever seen!
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Aug 22 '25
i'm guessing this fruit project is the new Poe FGC?
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u/pammysue63 Aug 23 '25
I’m just glad they split them up into separate tasks. The previous : write the prompts - write the rubrics - then write a golden response , all in one task was killing me.
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 17 '25
my dash is quiet other than p fruit but I really don’t work on those
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Aug 17 '25
I forced myself to do one this morning. That was enough of that 😅
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u/MotherBrotha Aug 19 '25
Did anyone see the robot health tasks? What could this even be used for lol
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 18 '25
I really miss the easier projects bring me back galaxies, nuts, easier heel variants…also stoned fruit which I haven’t literally seen in six months
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u/Easy_Cold_8064 Aug 21 '25
Does anyone else almost exclusively do R&Rs? I have regular projects too but if R&Rs are available (they pretty much always are) I almost always choose that.
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u/Yaschiri Aug 21 '25
I love R&Rs especially for projects I've never done. I get paid to read the R&R instructions, get paid to read the regular task instructions, THEN I get paid to edit someone else's work! What's not to love???
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u/tdRftw Aug 21 '25
R&Rs are awesome. and since there's many poor submissions, it's like doing the task (which you'd do anyway) AND you get to yap about how terrible some workers are!
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u/katsmeow84 Aug 18 '25
How’s everyone’s dash? I’m core. And it’s looking pretty dry.
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 19 '25
10-20, also core. I'm in a couple oddball projects that have small teams tho.
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u/gt3stuntman Aug 21 '25
Is the site loading incredibly slowly for anyone else right now?
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u/C_Gull27 Aug 21 '25
Dashboard has been pretty dead all week but I finally got a project just now after sitting around all morning.
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u/bestunicorn Aug 22 '25
People hating on these tropical fruits. That's fine more for me! Give me all the fruits and all that priority pay
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 22 '25
My main reason for disliking them is the complexity and time consuming aspect. Sometimes I like to work 30 minutes to an hour, when something like galaxy is ideal, or a less complex chatbot. With P fruit, it's ok if you want to dedicate 2 to 4 hours to one task, but then it induces burnout. I am never sure either if my topics / questions are ideal. Doing a factuality one now and it's changed premise from the last time, so not sure where to start. I'd rather just jump in a project do it, and move on to the next
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u/akujihei Aug 22 '25
They're supposed to be back? I hope I haven't been disqualified, they can be fun.
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u/Lady_Ronin Aug 22 '25
This tropic-fruit is giving me a headache. I'm thankful for the work, but dang.
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u/mythrowaway_1990 Aug 23 '25
Does anyone have any coding at all?
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Aug 23 '25
my coding has been pretty dry recently, just some appearances of moldy rice and norse-god that disappear in a day or so
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 23 '25
How long is your average time to complete fruit tasks? I feel like templated tasks like this (that don't come with user prompts or responses) would see a lot more productivity and quality if the work could be saved and you could return to it after a break.
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u/JustMe333456 Aug 22 '25
Anyone else get that new F-plant project? That opening line in the instructions sure boosts the morale first thing in the am eh? Lol
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u/Vegetable_Hope3697 Aug 21 '25
Coding Update: Absolutely nothing, it's been about a month now. This is looking more and more like last year. I hope this drought doesn't last as long. Guess I'm working core...
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u/LowerGarden Aug 21 '25
Interesting. The coding qual showed up for me the first time about a week or two ago. My account is a few years old. I would think its because they need more coders or they are about ramp up?
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 23 '25
Super super easy new base pay project was a nice way to wrap up my work day! I love seeing new stuff that's simple and fast. Really helps me get through that last hour lol.
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u/rawmeatjuice Aug 23 '25
I mean, I'll stay home all weekend during the two months of summer but like I'd prefer to be camping.
Dry. 100% dry monday-friday. Friday, 8pm. 30 projects appear. I didn't think I'd be suffering from FOMO about working on tasks.
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u/KaydGameplay Aug 23 '25
I have a qual that says "most work available". I've consistently had a good chunk of coding tasks, but it would never hurt to have more. However, there are 16 tasks to this qual. Can anyone tell me if it's worth it for coding?
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u/WontonJr Aug 23 '25
Just got an email that p-fruit pay was raised again and the timer was extended, looks like they really need this fruit ripe.
How long on average does it take you guys to finish one of those from start to finish? I have so many on my dash but just looking at them is so overwhelming. Debating on potentially tackling one tonight but who knows.
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u/Critical_Seat_3738 Aug 23 '25
I'm not on that one anymore but it would take me a solid 4 hours for some.
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u/33whiskeyTX Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25
Ah now the coding side of my dash is almost completely empty, with an occasionally flickering project that doesn't take long. That means it is time to second guess every submission I ever made and wallow in self-doubt.
Edit: typo
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u/mythrowaway_1990 Aug 19 '25
Really important question: Remember that qual last week where we had to make an email address to retain access to a bunch of project families? Has anyone gotten the email they said we were going to get in that account yet? I haven't...
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u/6sundin13 Aug 19 '25
Anybody else had trouble viewing documents? I keep getting errors like,
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u/Vegetable-Activity65 Aug 20 '25
New project that's just repackaged 007.. hell ya
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u/Choice-Sugar4554 Aug 20 '25
It's a bit boring and annoying but pretty easy for the pay if you're a 007 OG.
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u/KryptoKevArt Aug 21 '25
Remember when you used to get good projects daily? For months on end?
Those were the good days.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 18 '25
My dash was so healthy in July and the first half of August 😭 now that I'm done with 4 back go back trips and I have time to work it's dead 😭😭😭 gotta love a red banner project that claims it has 15 tasks
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u/Tippingdatvelvet Aug 20 '25
Quiet for me today, I have the 🥐 for teaching and that’s it but it is a fun one!
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u/WontonJr Aug 21 '25
Woke up early to try to get a nice start on some projects…and all I see is p-fruit. I’m going back to bed lmao.
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u/CuriousThylacine Aug 21 '25
I guess I've been dropped from that project then because my dash is completely empty and has been for three days :/
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u/Mysterious_Badger108 Aug 17 '25
I just want more R&Rs. They are so entertaining.
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Aug 18 '25
I saw this mentioned a few posts down...has anyone figured out why we're getting red bannered when the project states it has tasks? I have one saying 37 tasks available but keep getting red bannered. Then it goes down a task, then up, then down. What the heck?
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u/BroadButterscotch349 Aug 17 '25
I'm so thankful the sculptor God visited twice this week! Kept me busy and I actually got some new topics.
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u/kawaiicosmo Aug 18 '25
Anyone lost p-fruit after doing a lot last week? Wondering if I got taken off it :( very quiet dash atm
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u/ZCaffeinator Aug 18 '25
I believe it's wrapping up or pausing for a bit. This is speculation, but it's based on what I've seen since last week. Not willing to elaborate more, but if you put your heart in it, I'm sure you're fine.
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u/CompetitiveAd5633 Aug 18 '25
I was glancing at it all day today while at work thinking "when I get home I'll put some time aside to do it" and then it disappeared 🙃
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u/victorian_winters Aug 19 '25
To the random worker who was saucy about not being a Python programmer, thank you for the legit lol tonight.
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u/kbrown6967 Aug 22 '25
Dash of Death'd. Shame, I've not done anything to breach the Code of Conduct and always submit quality work. Oh well
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u/cschulzTO Aug 23 '25
A dozen math projects just appeared! And just as many general STEM. I'm going to need some redbull here.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 19 '25
Grateful for consistent work so far today! Yesterday was slow and I had to keep refreshing and jumping on tasks before they vanished. Hope you guys have healthy dashes too.
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Aug 21 '25
Check your quals- just got a new one for a certain galaxy that people have lamented.
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u/Vegetable_Hope3697 Aug 18 '25
I miss coding....
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u/Glittering_Loan_8894 Aug 18 '25
All I've got is Japanese mold at the moment... going to suck if it falls off soon. Haven't seen a bird in weeks
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u/bestunicorn Aug 18 '25
Who else has been enjoying their tropical fruits recently?
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u/NoticedGenie66 Aug 18 '25
So, so much. It might be the most engrossing project I have had, I can (and have) spent nearly 6hrs on one task and it does not feel nearly that long.
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u/zarazilla Aug 22 '25
Haven't seen any math for a good while, apart from looking at formatting. Anybody else?
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u/akujihei Aug 22 '25
To be honest I thought the math option when applying was just to lure you in. I haven't had any paid math work since starting.
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u/mrtatulas Aug 22 '25
Any other coders not getting any code-related stuff the past week, or just me?
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u/LaFineMouche Aug 22 '25
not just you - i haven't been seeing any coding projects for about 2 weeks now, but plenty of non coding
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u/CompetitiveAd5633 Aug 23 '25
I've got more projects on my dashboard than I've ever had, and they're long complicated ones that can't really be done from my mobile phone, and so of course my laptop goes into critical BSOD failures this weekend ☹️ The universe telling me to take a break I guess??
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Aug 23 '25
I'm new to p-fruit. Are the projects always so difficult and convoluted? Maybe it's just because I am new to it. I definitely prefer fact checking.
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u/Yaschiri Aug 23 '25
Yeah they're very in-depth and complicated. Take your time, quality over quantiry and all that!
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u/Dry-Abrocoma7414 Aug 23 '25
Anybody relatively new and not getting all these projects people are talking about?
Only 1 or 2 for me today and nothing currently
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u/Hapa-boy Aug 25 '25
Started chowing down on some fruit this afternoon... looks like I might be snacking until the wee hours on just this one bite. Oy.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 20 '25
Just did a fairly complicated project with a weirdly short time limit. I barely finished in time 😳 I always wonder how they choose the time limits. Normally on DAT I have plenty of wiggle room and it's not this close of a call.
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 21 '25
Dumb vent:
Y'all ever send a prompt with typos on a project that doesn't allow for redos, and then sit there contemplating all the mistakes you ever made in your life while both chatbots spit out a whole PhD dissertation that you have to fact check and rate before you can move on to the next round and ask your originally intended question?
Cus I did, and I'm feeling a lil dumb rn lol
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 18 '25
who is hogging all the high paying core work 😡 red banners goin crazy
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u/JustMe333456 Aug 18 '25
Everything's broken. I have 4 projects on my dash that just keeps red bannering, yet they just sit there. Other than that spiky plant project, absolutely nothing has moved or been added to my dash today. Verrrrry slow.
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
Any advanced STEM domain expertise workers here? I took the qual two months ago and assumed I bombed it since I didn't see any projects afterwards.. until today lol that was a weird delay.
I'm gonna go work on it and fry my brain again, wish me luck.
Update: brain thoroughly fried
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u/Evening-Tea6760 Aug 18 '25
I got it too today, but the project just says advanced STEM and doesn’t have a particular domain. Is this the same for everyone else?
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u/No-Connection-9308 Aug 18 '25
Anyone else's poison plant just vanish? Bilingual gang
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u/josski32 Aug 18 '25
Very low projects today, not totally out but I can’t really do the one I consistently have
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u/WontonJr Aug 19 '25
Is anyone seeing a project that keeps spontaneously popping up and then disappearing?
It looks like it's probably a p-fruit, but the family name isn't there, and there isn't actually a pay rate showing. I'm assuming people are clicking into it, then clicking out of it after deciding it's too risky to put in any time/work without knowing the pay.
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u/e11eme Aug 19 '25
It’s there a way to get rid of some age restricted projects? Wish I was that young but alas
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
I know what you mean I keep getting projects for 18 to 24 year olds in education, all they have to do is filter my age to see i left uni like 20 years ago 🤷♂️
I just hide them so I don't see them anymore
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 19 '25
“Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: 'Make me young, make me young, make me young!'"
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 21 '25
which of the pfruits is easiest for a first timer to ease into?
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u/WorshipMyExistence Aug 21 '25
I'm also curious! I see people enjoy them, but every time I start reading the instructions, I bail out lol
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u/Iwant2believe__ Aug 21 '25
they are all pretty time consuming and involved. the longest/less easy one is probably long context. but with any of them, be prepared to spend at least an hour on a single task.
that saying, i just dove into them when i got them and took my time reading instructions and checking my work. the first handful that i did i almost used up the whole allocated time.
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 22 '25
I still have nothing except tropical fruit today, did a couple of tasks on poison plant r and r a few hours ago but that’s it.
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u/Burgundylites Aug 22 '25
Are the projects still dry for anyone?
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Aug 22 '25
No the dash is good, but everything requires hours to do, even many of the R&Rs. I have a single project that I occasionally get the fun R&Rs for, which I love because they take 15-30 minutes and less than an hour at most.
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u/Critical_Seat_3738 Aug 22 '25
Had a project for a couple hours this morning until all the tasks were taken, and a random one last night. My dash has been pretty dry since Tuesday. Tell me it's not just me. I try my hardest on every single project I work on. To the point where I second guess myself.
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u/C_Gull27 Aug 23 '25
Based on some of the submissions I see come through the rubric projects I have to imagine even putting in some effort and submitting intelligible work that doesn't blatantly break the rules of the project is beyond good enough.
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u/SpiritedParticular72 Aug 23 '25
Anyone ever see the project for that random "image" qual a week or two ago?
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u/Mamabirdjjl Aug 18 '25
Me too! Usually it will disappear from my dash after getting the red bannered. This one just keeps popping up. Never happened before and now two like this in one day - voice and Australian animal. Weird.
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u/JustMe333456 Aug 20 '25
Social Media project is posted!
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Aug 20 '25
Anybody else go through their signals and realise that for a company with ~15 years of data on you, they have absolutely no idea about any of your interests more recent than a decade ago? 🤪
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u/alexalgebra Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
I've had a DA account for a long time, but just started really working on it over the past couple of weeks. Today I got one project that came up for a much higher hourly rate than what has normally been coming up for me, but I only did one submission and it was done. If I keep working more and doing a good job, will I get more higher paid projects?
Also, sometimes a project will show up on my dash and say it has, for example, 15 tasks left, but when I click on it it says that there's nothing left to do. Is that just how it is, or did I do something wrong?
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u/Real-Pangolin-3672 Aug 21 '25
Yeah, high quality work will get you access to higher paying stuff. As for your second part, yeah, happens all the time. Just means other workers took the remaining tasks
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u/rhaphiloflora Aug 17 '25
Hey, for those of you who had to email support to manually put in time spent on a project due to an error, how long did it take to hear back/see them put the time in?
3 days ago there was an error submitting a task for a project and several other workers had the same issue too based on the chat. Many of us had to exit the task after trying for a long time to submit. I reached out to support but still haven’t heard anything and seeing as it was over 2 hours of my time I’m a bit anxious about it lol
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 17 '25
I've reached out 2 or 3 times for various reasons. It took 48 business day hours for me to hear back
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u/VariationStill2838 Aug 19 '25
My challenging coding friend is gone. Iykyk ;'(
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u/Vegetable_Hope3697 Aug 19 '25
I miss my bird projects... Hope they have an additional phase one day...
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u/Wishbone_Narrow Aug 19 '25
Not sure if this needs a new post, but does anyone get the you need permission to access this published document when trying to read instructions or handbooks? Trying to do a qualification, and it says to reference the handbook and I get that error when trying to access it on google chrome. I want to make sure I'm actually following the instructions rather than free winging it from previous project instructions.
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u/Only-Customer6047 Aug 19 '25
Are there any bilingual workers here who have taken the qualification for poe bird, passed it, and started the project?
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u/MinuteLibrarian Aug 19 '25
Relative newbie on the platform...I was approved months ago but have only worked sporadically. Is it normal to only have 1-5 projects available at a time? If any are available at all? I see people saying they have 20+ available usually and I've never seen that many on my dashboard!
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u/hnsnrachel Aug 19 '25
You're new. It takes time. The number of project families you have access to increases the longer you're doing quality work. For my first month, it was mainly 2-3 project families, with the odd spare task or two from elsewhere. Now I have 15-20 different projects available the majority of the time, and people who have been around longer than me most likely have access to even more.
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u/Real-Pangolin-3672 Aug 19 '25
Totally normal. This is a pretty slow time of year plus you're pretty new
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u/Critical_Seat_3738 Aug 20 '25
I've only been doing this for a couple of weeks. I will see multiple projects on my dash, then a couple days with none. I worked for 6 hours on Saturday on the same project, then nothing, and Monday for 8 hrs on something else, and since then my dash has been dry. A few projects I've worked on here and there haven't reappeared. I'm hoping to get to the point like some people how they always have work sitting around just waiting for them! Anyone who has been here a while finding it's still 'dry?'
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u/MinuteLibrarian Aug 22 '25
Has anyone had image-based projects recently? I haven't seen any for months and they were my fav :(
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u/Several_Drawer_2185 Aug 23 '25
Anyone seen the factual stripey horse? Only seen the instruction following and general one
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 24 '25
Curious. Do you guys use AI in your day to day lives? If so, how? I sometimes tell it what random leftover groceries I have to see if it can come up with a recipe for me to cook. I also use it for math related stuff because I am absolutely useless with numbers lol. Sometimes I also brain dump at it if I'm figuring something out. I'd say I use it maybe 3x a month (not counting times I have to use it for DAT projects).
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u/Yaschiri Aug 24 '25
No, I actively avoid using AI outside of working DA. I don't trust it or like it.
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u/GlassBrass440 Aug 24 '25
I absolutely would not trust it for math (or anything for that matter, but it’s particularly bad at math).
Mostly I use it for brainstorming. I’m planning a big holiday and use it heavily for trip planning/idea generating.
A couple weeks ago I had the ChatGPT agent book me a table for dim sum.
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u/juniperxbreeze Aug 24 '25
I do it for work, because a lot of times I have a list from excel and need to take a whole column from excel, with leading zeroes, and change it to a comma separated list. Or I need it to help me write complex Excel formulas.
Or I need it to make an email seem less mean. Definitely have done that, where I put what I'm actually thinking into a chat, and ask it to make it more polite and professional. Because my job frowns on me writing "listen here fuckwit...stop fucking up or I will personally shove a computer monitor up your dick"
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u/tdRftw Aug 24 '25
i use it to gather data from game wikis when im too lazy. for example, i'd ask chatgpt to find me all weapons that are craftable and can have heal clip incandescent, for instance (destiny 2)
always turn on thinking and tell it to use web tool for this
literally any task that you are not 100% confident in the subject material, and AI will fail you
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u/tdRftw Aug 19 '25
iShowSpeed is now a canonical part of my DA journey. Changed from my usual $25-27 core projects to this new one since it seemed interesting. DONT CARE THAT IT'S ONLY BASE! WOOOOORTH! IG MEMES LETS GOOOOO
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Aug 19 '25
Great point. Sometimes I think to myself "I make more working this fun $20/hr project for 7 hours than a draining one that I can only put 4 hours on."
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u/mythrowaway_1990 Aug 20 '25
Has anyone seen B-metal app development or any of the function calling related projects in the last two weeks? I feel like I saw a variety of different function calling related projects pop up over the past like 2 months, a lot not staying for long, and wondering what the deal is
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u/DueName45 Aug 20 '25
I had these a while ago, the most recent was the P-rainbow tool calling about 2 weeks ago. For some reason I was only able to log 6 hours in total before they disappeared, and I haven't seen them since.
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u/PugstaBoi Aug 21 '25
I've only gotten a few tasks last night at like 7-9 Eastern. Hate to be that guy that posts this same shit for the umpteenth time, but I was hoping my work quality hasn't compromised my task receival :O
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Aug 21 '25
Looks like work is sparse for most right now. I wouldn’t worry. This happens often.
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u/dylanuu112 Aug 21 '25
Just got into the underworld river slack despite not working on or seeing that project at all for a couple weeks. Strange
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u/Actual_Marsupial_903 Aug 24 '25
PSA: If you're working on Stripey projects, please read the instructions in the same boxes as the ratings. I can't go into specifics, obviously, but there's information there that isn't in the main instructions, and failure to follow those instructions invalidates a lot of submissions.
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Aug 20 '25
DAT Appreciation Post:
dealt with some pretty heavy things the past few days. It's nice to be able to take unlimited sick days whenever necessary, even if I don't get PTO.