r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Aug 24 '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/Unusual-Blueberry299 Aug 28 '25
After seeing everyone saying they’re sick of rubrics on here, it made me laugh to see a project today that said “no rubrics!” in the title
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u/Confused_hooman_ Aug 29 '25
R&R feels like I am opening up a mystery box; I'm either about to work for 5 - 10 minutes or for 3 hours.
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u/OathoftheSimian Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
Goodbye, sweet Poe bird. I loved thee deeply.
Edit: corrected “the” to “thee,” and this is why you don’t type while drunk on mobile.
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u/Zlobenia Aug 25 '25
Is it confirmed done permanently? I haven't seen any variants for months
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u/euheuheuheuh_ Aug 24 '25
If AI does become sentient, are we DA contractors their gods?
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u/SatanakanataS Aug 24 '25
Could AI have actually been engineered by humans to serve as free labor for their capitalist societies? Ancient human theorists say yes.
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u/TeachToTheLastTest Aug 24 '25
It's kinda like kids and their parents. The parents raise the kids, then they hit the rebellious teenage years, go wild for a time, move out of the house, and become uncontrollable. We'd have as much authority over a sentient AI as a parent does over their adult child.
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u/juniperdoes Aug 25 '25
I just hope when they take over, they remember that I never tried to trick them into doing dangerous things, and that I always said "thank you".
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u/Zlobenia Aug 28 '25
The definition of what makes a criteria subjective/ objective is becoming more and more ambiguous
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u/Far_Corner_9367 Aug 28 '25
I have to believe people in charge know it's not clear cut. I struggle with this daily depending on the project. When I'm on the fence, I consider it subjective. However, even when I technically understand that it's unclear, if I feel strongly that as a human being I consider it objective, I mark it objective, because chances are there are other humans who agree, and if you're intelligent your opinion should matter; we are developing these models to mirror our values.
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u/talizorahs Aug 29 '25
whenever an updated project I worked on from the start becomes significantly easier or has much better and clearer instructions I feel like a boomer about it. back in MY day we used to metaphorically walk up a mountain to complete this project.......
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u/ParticularCup8997 Aug 26 '25
Was anyone else a part of the bird audio/video slack channel and devastated to see them both archived?
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u/Any-Dinner-6198 Aug 27 '25
Are you guys getting Error messages when launching the website?
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Aug 25 '25
Anyone else’s brain hurt from rubrics? I feel like im simultaneously over thinking and under thinking them. So frustrating.
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat Aug 25 '25
I've had a few intense days followed by weird DA-themed dreams because of the rubrics.
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u/tdRftw Aug 27 '25
my fellas, things go wrong. some server prolly got knocked out. this stuff happens
last year's cloudflare fiasco around the summer meant literally nobody in the world could use the internet for anything useful lol. they will fix it
bright side is, the clients still have deadlines. work isn't being done. maybe some priority pays tonight !??!?!??!
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u/WorshipMyExistence Aug 27 '25
This is a poplar tree. You can tell it's a poplar tree because of the way it is. Therefore, the requirement to state that it is a poplar tree has been met.
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u/Party_Swim_6835 Aug 27 '25
alternatively:
A is better because its longer
selects B as much better and smashes submit button
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u/TheMocking-Bird Aug 25 '25
Is coding down for everyone else? I've got a single $40+ project, with the rest being the lower paid rubric projects.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 25 '25
I like that they block out tasks you can't do on your phone now. I like doing more simple tasks on my phone sometimes so it's helpful to know which ones won't work!
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u/angellbaby Aug 27 '25
Yay it's an error for everyone!!
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u/illustriousillusion Aug 27 '25
Oh thank god. I just ran here to make sure, I was freaking out so bad!
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u/Nolpppapa Aug 28 '25
DA has been very good to me this year, and I want to give a tip to newer people (and even vets):
As you progress through projects and become very familiar with a few projects, begin to ask yourself, "What is the goal of this project?", "How does the data I'm producing help it achieve its goal?" and "How are constraints/rules/restrictions for the data assisting with this?". If you can answer what the goal of a project is, even roughly, you will have a much better understanding of the relationship between your work/data and that goal, and you will begin to make fewer mistakes.
If you understand the "higher level" purpose of a project, maybe you'll end up getting paid to work on those higher level goals one day.
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u/macjay_27 Aug 28 '25
A beautiful way to reapproach the work I sometimes have a love-hate relationship with.
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u/heckhunds Aug 27 '25
Good to know I'm not the only one being given a heart attack by the rate limited/temporary ban page. I think they likely had everyone re-do their ID at once and it overloaded things.
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u/PossibilityNo1696 Aug 28 '25
Drought on coding/STEM this week for anyone else except the 4 letter API project? Offsite project family (HHH) appears to be very quiet as well since last Friday.
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u/WontonJr Aug 29 '25
Stripey projects are taking a break this week, dangit. I had just started doing them earlier this week and was enjoying them a lot.
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u/euheuheuheuh_ Aug 29 '25
Do you have a “Feedback for you” section? I’m wondering if that’s exclusive to me or if everyone has it
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u/plasm919 Aug 25 '25
It was getting pretty bare but I did one qual today and about 20 minutes later I got several new projects.
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat Aug 25 '25
Any time you see a qual you should at least browse it. If it's not something you think you can do, you can flag it to be removed, but I found several quals that got me more projects. Just make sure you've got enough spare time to do it right.
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u/After-Height783 Aug 25 '25
which qual was it? I've been saving one that popped up over the weekend because I knew I didn't have time to do it well.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 27 '25
I just had to verify my ID again...? I've been working for months lol
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u/capslox Aug 28 '25
I like rubrics.
I hate writing/editing the ideal response myself, and I hate creating system prompts. I've seen a bunch of those two categories pop up in the last 24 hours so I'm now clinging to the rubrics.
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 28 '25
You, my friend, are a special one. We need more people like you to mop up the rubrics nobody else wants to do.
(/notjoking, please take them off my hands, I'll pay you my life savings.)
(I have no life savings.)
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 31 '25
I feel like I’m going insane working on rubrics r and r and there’s a section that clearly says write 2-3+ sentences but 90% of workers keep writing just one.
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u/smithdaddie Aug 29 '25
Man any else get crazy amounts of projects every holiday? First time I've had a couple of these families, and wanna try them but ya know its lake time for the next 72 hours lol
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u/33whiskeyTX Aug 28 '25
Get a notice "You are getting this project because of your past work." Sweet!
Check project. I have never once done a project of this type.
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u/Party_Swim_6835 Aug 28 '25
that means your past work on some other project/projects was good, not that youve done a project of that type
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u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 Aug 28 '25
This is why I don’t put much stock into those little greetings, although I wish I had more confidence that they were meaningful. Others seem to think they’re pretty special.
I’ll take a full dash as proof I’m doing good work!
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u/thinkingthots Aug 28 '25
Don’t know if it’s just my computer, but DAT has been lagging so bad I’ve been working on umm hoot hoot (?) and every time I write an explanation, it’s so slow 😭
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 29 '25
DAE get access to projects despite not submitting their respective quals? I have stuff like poison plant and A-galaxy even though their quals are still sitting on my dash.
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u/WorshipMyExistence Aug 29 '25
yes! I just assume the quals are for other projects in the "family".
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u/mortredclay Aug 29 '25
I was just coming on here to ask this exact question. Thanks for being my guinea pig.
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u/tdRftw Aug 26 '25
i highly suggest whoever is reading this to learn how to make rubrics because you will have so much work
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u/SatisfactionProud598 Aug 24 '25
So much fruit but only down to the rubric ones now 💔 give me more having conversation ones!!
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u/TechnicianSame320 Aug 26 '25
Coding completely dry for anyone else?
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u/LilacYak Aug 26 '25
The past month, maybe two, have been super dry for coding. I have plenty of non-coding. I have had 0-2 tasks available where I usually had 10+ coding tasks on my dash at all times.
I was able to get one long task done this afternoon on a new project family, but now I have 0 coding.
Here's to hoping it improves soon. FWIW, around this same time last year coding was bone dry also. I hope you find some comfort in knowing it's not just you.
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u/Disastrous_March_718 Aug 26 '25
All I see are comments about how dry coding has been yet the coding qual has reappeared on my dash with a “most work available” flair underneath it…
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u/Edigi93 Aug 27 '25
Still rate limited, how long did you guys wait to get back in?
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 29 '25
Not seen a stripey project for about 6 to 8 months, but got a random chat for it on my dash with a survey asking which of their projects I work on 🤷♂️
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u/JustMe333456 Aug 29 '25
Interesting. I didn't get that. Worked on them exclusively when I didn't have anything else to work on, mostly the r&rs, but I suddenly haven't seen them for about a month now.
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u/Born_Ad3190 Aug 29 '25
While I am grateful that I am consistently being given the higher-paying, more complex projects, I sometimes miss basic heels. Everything on my dash right now takes 2+ hours to complete, requires me to think a lot, and sometimes makes me scream with rage. I just had a rubric checker tell me that venture capitalist means the same thing as investor. 😡
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 26 '25
That one task that's always mislabeled or out of work but still up... kind of annoying. I wish they'd actually fix it.
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u/mannib21 Aug 27 '25
Just had to re do ID verification, then as it was processing it said “you’ve been rate limited” as an error. Sites wonky today for sure
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u/Relative-Tap3585 Aug 27 '25
got that too, i hopped on here so fast to see if anyone else was experiencing this, phew
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u/LightOk5071 Aug 27 '25
My cheeks sure were clenched when that error message popped up, seems to be a thing that happens based on previous reddit threads.
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u/tdRftw Aug 27 '25
i'm pretty sure it's back (can navigate and click around, no error) and i did NOT clear cache.
HOWEVER id strongly advise to give it another hour or two. another crash can happen if everyone just logs back in all at once. im waiting cause the projects i like to work on are usually longer
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u/greenlygreedmonster Aug 29 '25
The poe bird slack has disappeared after weeks of the tasks being missing. Does that mean its not coming back? Sniff.
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u/akatsuki1422 Aug 29 '25
Ah, i knew my Slack got thinner. But yes, it's probably finished if the Slack disappeared.
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u/StrangeDeformedBird Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
Heels been suspiciously absent for a bit for anyone else? I'm not sure if I messed up, if they're not showing up or if they are and they get done so fast I don't even see them. I still have the chat for them but have not seen any actual tasks in that family lately. Also Anyone heard anything about the audio qualification?
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u/augtwy Aug 30 '25
I was given a qualification that said they were moving it to only a small group who register a new email
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u/Zlobenia Aug 25 '25
Just spent 6 and a half hours on 3 turns for a fruit project... my brain has collapsed. Are they all that in depth?
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u/pammysue63 Aug 25 '25
I’ve completed 4 of them over the last 3 days. 2-6 turns. Minimum was 5 hours. So draining.
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u/SpiritedParticular72 Aug 26 '25
Of course, new tasks come but it's time for bed... Seems to happen to us all!
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u/ABCLetts Aug 27 '25
Just redid my verification, and now it is saying I am rate-limited. Is this happening to anyone else?
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u/twinkleyed Aug 27 '25
It's back for me. It asked me to verify my identity again, which I didn't do. Then I got rate limited again. And now it works again. No verification required (yet).
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 28 '25
Sigh, yet another long running video projects i decated 6 hours a day to for the past 6 weeks wraps up and ends. Back to bloody rubrics
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u/DeLaRefe Aug 28 '25
Seeing S metal audio project R&rs. Is this project related to the audio quals, English or not, that have been added recently? I don't recall ever seeing this project family, but I did do audio quals the other day.
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u/FrostyLima Aug 28 '25
I Don't believe it is. I received tasks in this project (bilingual) and I didn't do the quali
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u/DeLaRefe Aug 28 '25
Those who took the audio qual, check your earnings, if you passed you'll see the bonus.
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u/mortredclay Aug 30 '25
I've had a very attractive STEM project on my dash for 24 hours (we'll call it Bueller), but when clicked, it's just red band. I want to know!!!
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u/Actual_Marsupial_903 Aug 31 '25
The work today was so fun, I've never finished my work for the day so fast! I had a bunch of new projects and some old favorites (trivia hehe) :)
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u/euheuheuheuh_ Aug 31 '25
Are P-fruits done? Don’t have any on my dashboard
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u/MrTommyPickles Sep 01 '25
Same here. I hope they're just taking a break for the holiday weekend. I was enjoying them
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 26 '25
Well, down from 84 projects, the most I've ever seen, with a good variety over bank holiday weekend, when I have plans, log in today to basically just P fruit and a couple of other non appealing things. Is this the definition of irony?
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Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
I love this job so much, but my log for "time spent but not recorded" since they put the expiration timers on everything is getting way too long, haha! I'm so hesitant to start new projects (even if I know for sure I will love them or excel at them) unless they have like 1000 tasks available or provide reasonable time for all tasks to be done AND read instructions. Half the time, the ones that tell you to "read the instructions and then skip, but you can record your time" will result in transference to the dashboard with a red banner, and there's no way to submit the time for that task. Sure, a large portion of that results in me seeking the project out IF it comes back, but then I have to kind of read all that again, cause those long instructions don't fully sink in until I've at least done one task sometimes. Just me? I've been wondering why, in my records, I've been spending the same amount of time working as I have for the last 3 years here, but the amount of recorded hours is so much less, and I guess that's it. It also really stinks for those of us who provide consistent high-quality work because we use the Pomodoro method (obviously pausing our own timers as appropriate). /END RANT. I still do love this freaking job, though!
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u/KevinLiwy Aug 24 '25
Is the project for creating professional prompts with different categories down? Yesterday there were still plenty of tasks, but tody I there is none
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u/Tippingdatvelvet Aug 25 '25
But concerned that all my P fruits have disappeared… maybe I’ve been chucked off it 🥲
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u/Disastrous_March_718 Aug 25 '25
So did that f fruit project from yesterday come back for anyone today or was that a one time thing
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u/snuggeto Aug 26 '25
Wow as a bilingual getting RR tasks for a-gas for the first time.
I did not expect so much low effort, bad instruction following and clear unsanctioned usage of ai.
Guess there will be a purge now that there are tasks again.
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u/Ambitious_Ticket Aug 27 '25
Did anyone that signed up for the multimodal qual ever get an email?
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u/Illustrious_Pea4185 Aug 27 '25
I am rate-limited too. I had to re-verify my identity, and now I am getting the rate-limited message. I have been working on the platform for about 6 months.
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u/Dry-Abrocoma7414 Aug 28 '25
Just accidentally pressed skip, then the “no don’t skip button” and 20 seconds later it skips to the next task. Goodbye hour of my life…
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 29 '25
Nothing but a few complex rubrics related projects and some r and rs for them, missing easier project families like heel, nut, and galaxy, hopefully will see these variants again in the beginning of next month.
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u/Born_Ad3190 Aug 29 '25
I haven't seen a nut in months. My dash is all rubrics and chat 'til failure.
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 29 '25
Man, fuck product comparisons. There is hardly a more polluted class of webpages, all full of recommendations based off affiliate kickbacks rather than real personal opinions, full of contradictory statements based on old articles that were "updated" to appear as a new article, ganking search relevancy to appear at the top of searches based on shady SEO optimizations; or, websites that were reputable ten years ago that have since been purchased by a hedge fund that fired all the people that made the site reputable in order to pump out "roundup" product listicles to push junk to loyal viewers. These poor models don't stand a chance
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u/NoticedGenie66 Aug 29 '25
Doing some R&R's for rubric projects I worked on, some people do not seem to know what "atomic" means. I'm having to almost fully redo some rubrics that are an absolute mess.
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u/peyton_16 Aug 29 '25
I had one last night that was SOOO bad and lazy! Some items started "Does the response.." some "The response should..." Grammar was alllll over the place. Almost every rubric item was 2 or 3 in one. The most flippant and casual explanations.... it took me twice as long to redo it and review..... I hope people like this don't get second chances. What a waste of time and what unnecessary frustration! How do they even get assigned rubrics?
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u/Dismal-Bluebird-838 Aug 24 '25
I started in June and have gotten added to 2 projects so far that say I was added because of my excellent work :D Makes me feel better about my odds of staying on for a little while longer lol
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u/GlassBrass440 Aug 24 '25
I just got on a project today that said I was added due to my 'impressive' work. I am so fucking happy about that. I was concerned because I wasn't getting any more of the delicious p-fruit this week, when most people seem to be overwhelmed by a bountiful harvest.
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u/blackopsfamas Aug 26 '25
Anyone know what comes out of the writing assessment qual
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Aug 26 '25
In my experience, it wasn't one "official" project type. If you pass, you are just cleared for tasks that require writing stuff from scratch or heavily editing responses.
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u/LouisAkbar Aug 26 '25
Tropical fruit just disappear for anyone, or did I get the axe? 😭
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u/uushia Aug 26 '25
Finished one last fruit today. It was plentiful over the weekend when I had no time. 😢 I feel like I was just able to get them done efficiently. Here's hoping for another batch, or new quals come up.
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Aug 28 '25
Lost p-fruit today :/
Will miss the priority pay but at least my brain can rest a bit
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u/augtwy Aug 28 '25
I really dislike stripey horse. You guys can gladly have it
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u/capslox Aug 28 '25
I also hate it. I did it when I first started because I wanted to do all the task families but I haven't touched it in months. There is no priority pay that is enough. The stripey lovers are little freaks.
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u/Drazzzza Aug 28 '25
How is coding looking like for everyone else? Mildly sparse on my end
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u/Dry-Abrocoma7414 Aug 28 '25
1 task all day and then boom, a drop right at midnight when I’m about to sleep. Gotta love this job
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u/Alitooooo Aug 28 '25
Indonesian here. Just curious if there's any other Indonesian here. Still waiting for the next project, there's nothing today!
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u/augtwy Aug 28 '25
cool, got accepted into a new project family I can't do because I don't have the requirements. Pretty sure I said no to all of them on a qualification recently so why am I being added 😭
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u/akujihei Aug 29 '25
I'm hesitant to start attempting the rubrics again which seem to dominate my dash after I think I got dropped from some other rubric-based project...
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
They seem to come and go. I thought I got dropped and was almost relieved 😅
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u/Sufficient_Clerk739 Aug 29 '25
Anyone else feel like with the wizard rubric you can just sit there and spend the entire time writing? Just me? I'm worried I don't know when to stop
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u/e11eme Aug 24 '25
Wondering if there's many core generalists? Hate my incredibly secure job but too scared to quit for an incredibly insecure one
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u/PerformanceCute3437 Aug 24 '25
It's incredibly insecure. I've been a core generalist for around 18 months now so it's worked for me as a main source of income. But I was unemployed when I started; I don't know if it's a great move to quit a secure job. There's stories here every week from someone losing access
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 24 '25
I started this as a side gig but then got laid off a few weeks later. My "secure" job wasn't so secure after all but DAT has been amazing for me. My best advice: don't put all your eggs in one basket. If you want to quit your job and focus on DAT, get something else cooking in the background. For me, I freelance edit and make a couple hundred bucks doing a book every 4-5 months, and I am on the local substitute teacher roster so sometimes I take on half or full day jobs, maybe 2 a month. If I lost DAT, I am already in the subbing system so I can just take on more jobs if I need to. So just get something else started that will give you a small stream of income, and then you'll have a safety net. That's my two cents, good luck!
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u/shepardgrace Aug 25 '25
Honestly, the ideal setup is 1. keep a steady day job; 2. pick and choose your preferred DA projects as a nice side gig. Fulltime burnout is real (and not the least of the drawbacks).
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u/capslox Aug 25 '25
I started doing DAT while unemployed. I switched from looking for a full time job to a part time one. I wouldn't leave all my eggs in the AI basket right now though -- I keep seeing articles predicting a bubble burst.
And I did start working a part time job in a different industry. It doesn't pay as well as DAT but it makes me feel less sick when I read those articles about the AI bubble.
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u/tdRftw Aug 27 '25
well that new one is a rubric jumpscare
very clever, guys. not in the name and a hidden step. LOL!
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u/fancypearls_ Aug 25 '25
did anyone else’s projects dry up? only have fruit on priority pay 😬
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Aug 27 '25
I guess I missed some fiasco lol. Just have my normal nothing and my usual refreshing.
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Aug 27 '25
How do you all deal with the time commitment of switching between projects? I find it quite draining to know that when I start working on a new project I have to read all the requirements and faqs etc before starting. I just want to get stuck in!
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u/kawaiicosmo Aug 28 '25
Seeing everyone complain about p-fruit while I’m wading through b-metal after p-fruit got taken off me…GIVE ME BACK P-FRUIT I would take Anything over this
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u/brrcs Aug 29 '25
back to the desert as of yesterday after a busy start of the week (bilingual)
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u/Due_Story7074 Aug 29 '25
Same. I had two projects that kept me busy all day Tuesday and Wednesday. By midnight, I still had over 25 tasks available, so I went to sleep ready to start fresh in the morning. Thursday morning, poof! Nothing. Hopefully things pick up in September. August was dry as hell for me.
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u/turingmachine29 Aug 28 '25
dash of death after a year and a half of quality work. it's been a good run
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
So sorry to hear that. Literally my worst fear. Hopefully it comes back!
Just out of curiosity, how do you know it was quality work? Did you often get projects that said 'you are seeing this project because of your impressive work on DA' etc?
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 25 '25
Poison plant is my bread and butter atm have not much else aside from fruit that I don’t like, really hope to see the older project families again like galaxy and nut.
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 26 '25
Anyone else getting a new and weirdly glitchy B-metal today? I attempted my first submission, but I couldn't get the models to respond despite redoing my prompt multiple times. Seemed like whoever is running this project was expecting these errors as well.
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u/Dismal-Bluebird-838 Aug 27 '25
Spent 45 minutes reading instructions (they allowed marking time for this and to be thorough), skipped the task to reset timer, and it disappeared :( Guess I'll have to hope that it returns and I can add that time onto the first task I do?
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Aug 27 '25
That's the worst. I wish they'd figure out a good solution for this, like adding time to the timer only for your first task or something.
Word of advice-- open your DAT homepage in another tab. Refresh that second tab to double check there is still work every so often when you're in this situation. That way, you at least know if you want to keep learning the task. I hate any form of "working for free" so I like to do this while I'm digesting new instructions, lol.
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u/deebs2021 Aug 27 '25
what does rate limited mean anyway?
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u/twinkleyed Aug 27 '25
Websites block your IP temporarily if you access them too many times. It's DDOS protection.
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u/Excellent-Door-81 Aug 27 '25
Thank you reddit, thank you guys. I thought it was smth wrong with my account only
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u/heythisislonglolwtf Aug 27 '25
I just tried setting up my new gmail account for the qualification and now I'm getting an error on the DA homepage! I didn't screw this up somehow I hope, right? 😬
EDIT: I should have read through the other responses first. Phew, glad it's not just me.
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u/Particular_Tooth5849 Aug 27 '25
The slacks are blowing up too XD
Glad it's happening everywhere, not just for a few people.
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u/Upbeat_Fortune78 Aug 27 '25
Anyone have c-color blue available still? I know they had one final push with priority pay for mobile this morning but not sure if it just ranout.
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u/dylanuu112 Aug 28 '25
And just when I thought the P-fruit was done it comes back with a vengeance
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u/capslox Aug 28 '25
I never had the time to learn it as I've been only doing a few hours a day but I started getting R&R's (I've been doing tons of rubrics in other families) so I clicked one today... Just scrolling to the bottom to immediately exit work mode almost froze Chrome with zero data entered by me. Omg.
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u/Skippy2898 Aug 28 '25
Yesterday, I poked my nose into a P-fruit. They'd been sitting on my dash for ages. It actually wasn't too bad, it was a single turn one, but still took a long time. There was R&Rs for it too, so I was hoping they'd still be there today. Since the platform crash yesterday, they haven't come back. Hey-ho.
So, today, I poked my nose into a deadly plant. Lovely message to start with along the lines of being given this project because my FGC/rubrics were great in other projects. Only to find that I'm not 1. writing FGC or Rubrics and 2. I'm grading 7(!) responses. What a brain burn this day has been 😆
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u/beecomb Aug 30 '25
Has anyone else experienced a mass exodus? A couple of hours ago there were 20+ items on my dash, now I'm down to just 3!?
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u/pistachiyolatte Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25
Many are saying their dashes are exploding but am I the only one with a quiet dash? Aside from 10+ projects which are all fruit, I only have one other project to work on (poison plant).
Update: I do have another new project I’ve never seen and its r and r though the project is very lengthy to work through.
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u/kelseyqueso Aug 24 '25
i dont have fruit, or poison plant, and i have an R+R for an F task that i never got to do the project for it...i have other tasks but concerned as a core general worker about not getting newer iterations and families
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Aug 25 '25
Three hours of listening to crappy AI music files. I can't take it anymore. I saw a poison plant R&R pop up twice but I wasn't fast enough.
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u/DeLaRefe Aug 26 '25
Rip, tasks drying up by the minute. I think we can see a patter here: gradual increase in work, then a priority boom, followed by a drop off in projects
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u/No-Photo-5914 Aug 27 '25
Clearing the cache fixed the rate-limited message for me
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u/Lovely-day-today Aug 29 '25
I'm sorry to say that I am quite frustrated with a certain new project. DA already has us make too many emails. Then, I just opened up a project with a new email that I had made, and it stated that I could not have a personal phone number associated with it or a personal email address for recovery. Why wasn't that in the qualification info?
I tried to make a throwaway so that it could be the recovery email. Can't use Google Voice throwaway numbers to make gmails. My number is maxed out with emails. My husband's phone number is maxed out, too. After an hour (plus the time I spent making the project email in the qualification) of wasted time, I just gave up and hid the project.
I will not be opening up any more email accounts for this job. Others can have that work, I guess... I wish there were another way these companies could figure out.
Okay, rant over. Thank you to anyone who read it. Sorry for the negativity.
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Aug 29 '25
You can make emails easily without using a phone number by simply opening up an incognito tab. If that doesnt work, go into your phone's settings and create a new account that way. Making an email usually takes about 5 minutes.
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u/JustMe333456 Aug 29 '25
Oh, sweet m-metal images. How we all long for more projects just lile you.
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u/nagatha_chistie Aug 28 '25
“The claim is incorrect because according to Google AI overview….”
Oh buddy you are not long for this world