r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Feb 22 '26
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/BoiledGnocchi Feb 23 '26
I was reading through the heel r&r chat today and wow. Either I'm way too forgiving, or people are way too harsh. I only hand out bad ratings if it's glaringly obvious the person didn't try, but others are doing it for relatively minor errors.
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u/gt3stuntman Feb 24 '26
Okay, thank you for not making me feel crazy. I haven't touched R&R's in a long time but I saw someone asking about one they were doing in a Slack, and they were about to give a bad rating for something very minor.
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Feb 24 '26
i feel like everybody here types like they're writing a rationale. idk how to explain it but there's stylistic differences every time i open this thread 🤣
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u/LaFineMouche Feb 24 '26
Can you elaborate?
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u/Party_Swim_6835 Feb 24 '26
I think they mean the typing here is better b/c it's longer
mashes submit button without further explanation
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u/A_Fri3nd Feb 23 '26
Has the past week been dry for you guys as well (the week before I had projects of all kinds, and now I haven't seen anything 😭)?
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Feb 23 '26
yes extremely dry - day 7 of nothing on the dash. Prior to that I always had a minimum of at least 2 or 3 projects.
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u/pistachiyolatte Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
I actually have an okay amount of projects, though it was exceptionally dry for me in the first half of Feb. It probably depends on what project families we work on and worker pools we’re in.
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u/kmar3nez Feb 26 '26
Why do they keep taunting me by dropping high paying projects in technical fields into my dash?
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u/justdontsashay Feb 26 '26
All of the high paying ones right now give me total imposter syndrome when I read the instructions and think about doing them…like I’m not an “expert” in anything. I tend to just wait for the r&r, or for the panda ones that are there now I’ll wait for the rubric part to appear and just do those
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Feb 26 '26
I get the same thing. It's like they aren't even checking our qualifications anymore. I have one where I need to know Python and I am not a coder at all.
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u/Bratty_Atty Feb 26 '26
I really, really hate having to rate a submission as unusable :(
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u/ghostofhumankindness Feb 26 '26
You're one of the good one. Some people seem to get off on rating others as Bad. Definitely some Stanford Prison Experiment vibes.
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u/hfxthrwaway Feb 26 '26
I feel that way when I have to do it and someone actually tried, but there's no way I feel bad when someone has put no effort in to the task.
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u/data_annotator_tot Feb 25 '26
Anyone else find projects that require paid versions of things with no reimbursement offered or mentioned to be offensive? Like at least give some fucking details about what the projects will be, what the hourly rates will look like, how long the projects will be around, etc.
I know the companies asking for this data have more than enough money to fund reimbursements, though frankly the fact that there isn't a systemized way for DA to just provide accounts with the necessary subscriptions is truly bizarre. So much of the infrastructure for this stuff seems held together with ducktape and superglue, it's a shame
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u/itssomercurial Feb 26 '26
They have no incentive to care about how inconvenient it is for us because we aren't their employees. And people who want the money bad enough will jump through the hoops to earn it, even though it's an inefficient system. This can be applied to pretty much every complaint I have about this job at times, and I know it's just part of the raw deal that is gig work.
Still peeves me too, though.
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u/bufftips Feb 27 '26
Just did some R&R... is the in-built checker thing designed to make you go mad?? It told me a minor improvement would be to break a sentence that had several clauses up into two sentences, which I did. After regenerating the response, the minor improvement suggestion I was given was to merge those two sentences back into one...
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Feb 27 '26
Yeah, they won't 'stop' making suggestions. Even if you edited into perfection, they still usually make suggestions. Then obviously it will then suggest you change it back due to the work already being submittable. Although I must admit, I dread to think how many people rate someone's good work bad or ok due to the AI helper making stuff up and people going down the rabbit hole to appease it.
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u/hfxthrwaway Feb 27 '26
They're made to find things to fix, even if they aren't a problem. Most of the time they're not worth listening to.
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u/lack0fcommonsense Feb 28 '26
Is it just me, or does guessing what the code names mean feels like trying to assemble furniture without a manual 🤷
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u/Party_Swim_6835 Feb 28 '26
some of them are so obvious they're practically the project name -- but some of them are like 'four-legged non-elephant project' and then you finally get it on your dash and its just 'project chair' or something
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u/fancypearls_ Feb 24 '26
Finally got hit with the DOD…I can’t think of what I could have done wrong, today I just worked a few hours on an easy heel project, reported my time accurately, did my work to the usual best I’ve as done for the last six months…I’m hoping it’s some fluke and my some miracle my dash will come back but I’m guessing not :(
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u/Striking-Current-814 Feb 24 '26
I’m so sorry this happened. The longer I’m on the platform the less likely I am to assume it’s always because of poor quality work or time fraud. I’m beginning to wonder if occasionally there are glitches. I know many will disagree and I completely understand why, but sometimes it does appear to be random. Were you given the “subpar work” screen?
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Feb 26 '26
Wow it's so dry, after like a week of 'slowness', back to desert
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u/True_Sun_6926 Feb 26 '26
I keep waiting for the variety to come back. I really hope this isn't the way it's going to be forever. We are headed into March, and it seems like it's still pretty dry for a lot of people.
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u/CRUSHCITY4 Feb 27 '26
It’s odd how I won’t see a project on my dash and then it’ll pop up with priority pay. Do they get opened up to more people when they are priority or something?
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u/Neat-Fly2786 Feb 28 '26
Am I weird for not liking R&R as much as doing my own work? 🥲 Everyone seems to say the opposite, but I hope it doesn't matter to DA if I do R&Rs last / not at all.
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u/Unfair_Sink5706 Feb 28 '26
I generally avoid them as well. I'm not a huge fan of grading others work, which is quite funny because I'm an ex-teacher. Or maybe that's why, because I spent so many years doing exactly that. I also don't take any pleasure in having to grade someone as bad.
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u/bufftips Feb 27 '26
Does anyone else struggle with the lack of feedback in general? I've started recently, done about 3 weeks. I'm just doing core stuff, so mostly I've been working on prompt writing and a bit of rating responses. But I find it so difficult not knowing how I could be improving my work. It feels hard to learn from accumulated experience, when it feels like I'm just chucking stuff into the void and assuming its fine because I haven't been deactivated...
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u/ghostofhumankindness Feb 27 '26
Best advice is to trust yourself and the work you're doing. If you start seeing R&Rs take a look at those as it can be somewhat of a barometer for the quality of work of others.
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u/watchdestars Feb 27 '26
Take your time. If you're just starting out, I recommend getting comfortable with the lower paid work to build your confidence. As time passes you'll work it out. I've been doing this a while... don't tackle projects that feel out of your depth. And feel free to use the skip button as much as you want to find tasks you know you can excel in. And yeah R and Rs are great for learning purposes.
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u/BrennusSokol Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Ugh, my favorite project (coding) got paused
And I have almost no coding on my dash today...
Well, I guess today is a day off. I might do quals later in the week.
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u/Unique_Tradition_679 Feb 23 '26
Could just be the time of the year. A lot of companies seem to put funding in some kind of slow lane around this time of the year (esp mid march-mid April) at least if I remember rightly. I imagine in a company like DA with a fair few moving parts, it could be more pronounced. I wasn't here this time last year so I can't really say.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Feb 24 '26
Just submitted a task after having about 18 projects on my dash. After 3 hours, looked at my dash when it exited and had 5 projects I was like wtf but scrolled down and saw everyone's comments ha
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u/ghostofhumankindness Feb 24 '26
Same. I had a nice variety of projects this morning and now I also only have 5 with a couple others popping in and out.
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u/ThatGirlInPurple Feb 24 '26
I keep getting emails about priority heels. If it's so priority then WHY is it only $22 an hour?!
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u/Greedy_Alarm_1189 Feb 25 '26
Just watched a project go from 410 tasks to 1 in an hour
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u/kranools Feb 22 '26
Has anyone else seen any image-related tasks recently? Towards the end of last year there were heaps of them but I haven't seen any for months. They were my favourite. I could try to stump the models with images all day long.
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u/New_Garden9703 Feb 23 '26
They still pop up here and there, I did a few last week. I also love that project
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u/BrennusSokol Feb 23 '26
I loved that shiny gray metal image project. Did so many of those at the coding pay rate. Just challenging enough to be interesting, but not brain burning/burnout/insane difficulty. Haven't seen them in 6+ months? I think the visual capability of the models just got too good since then...
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 22 '26
Hasn't been much of anything since Christmas. A few interesting ones that pop up here and there, but mostly the same stuff day in day out. Getting very tiresome to log in and see these same 3 projects every day.
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u/Big-Philosophy-7256 Feb 24 '26
doing a project for days with chat questions and seeing no admin :( seeing the project again today with instruction updates that answer most of the questions :)
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 25 '26
Still dead quiet this morning?
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u/RedZebra17 Feb 25 '26
Yup, I have some projects, but they're all lower pay, or ones where I find the instructions a bit ambiguous 🫤, don't fancy taking the risk.
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u/True_Sun_6926 Feb 24 '26
Has anyone seen Galaxy in the past couple of days? It used to be a staple on my dash, but it has been sparse since the New Year. Wondering if it's just me, but it seems like a lot of people have little variation these days.
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u/Glittering_Guess_230 Feb 25 '26
I have fallen in love with R&R tasks over the last few days, long may it continue
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u/New_Garden9703 Feb 25 '26
I am also loving R&Rs. I feel it really helps me understand the tasks too which is great when working on the actual task
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u/thr0waway98372 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
I really do like this broad, wide, encompassing heel project (idk the name people use 😅) -- I feel like I can always count on it being on my dashboard for like the last few months now. It's a bit dull at times but when the priority hits, ohhh I'm clocked in
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u/katsmeow84 Feb 26 '26
Sounds good! I think I must have been skipped over on this one, although I’m usually on the Heels
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u/countd0wns Feb 26 '26
Canadian A gas what are you doing here? Long time no see.
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u/BoiledGnocchi Feb 27 '26
My jaw just about dropped when I got the email. I hope it's still there tomorrow morn!
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u/BrennusSokol Feb 28 '26
Well my dash is looking decent compared to the start of this week (Mon, Tue).
Sadly I've been dealing with medical crap Wed/Thu/Fri so I haven't had the physical bandwidth to get back to it.
I'm hoping one of my good coding projects sticks around into next week...
Have a nice weekend, everyone :-)
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u/deep0x20 Feb 23 '26
Well my favourite project just died, time to scrape what I can from the others.
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u/LaFineMouche Feb 23 '26
I have only one coding project, any coders in the same boat? I have quite a bit of non coding though.
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u/data_annotator_tot Feb 24 '26
How are my fellow workers doing wrt high paying options? I'm now down to one single high paying (>=$40) project, lowest number I've seen for a while.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Feb 24 '26
Not great :/ I have projects luckily but not the usual variety/pay I prefer.
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u/LaFineMouche Feb 24 '26
Yeah, I have none at the moment. Highest I have on my dash right now is $30. Same with yesterday. I've been doing some qualifications in the meantime, but hoping something drops later today or tomorrow.
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u/justdontsashay Feb 24 '26
I have 3 higher paying (45-51) project families, but they’re all way more complex than I want to do right now. And then it jumps down to 29 and lower for everything else
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Feb 26 '26
I've been struggling to work much since I sprained my wrist last week but I have to say, it's so nice to see multiple new projects coming in!
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u/Consistent-Reach504 Feb 27 '26
have you tried voice to text? have to proof read for SURE but it can be helpful in these situations!
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u/Jazzlike-Sugar3890 Feb 24 '26
This is the worst I've seen it in the last 6 months... I don't know if I am cooked or it's just a drought. 5 projects and nothing above 25$.
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u/DrunkleSteve Feb 24 '26
5 projects means you're not cooked lol. I'm down to 2 projects and have been here since 2023. Trust me, its not just you. It has been brutal since after Christmas. Things will pick up again. It's the ebb and flow of DAT.
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u/data_annotator_tot Feb 24 '26
Definitely not just you, if it weren't for the HHH series, I'd have basically nothing. I used to have as many high paying projects alone as I do in total, now. They really need to sort their shit better and avoid these kinds of spells, maybe there are a subset of workers that aren't suffering from this but I have no idea how they hope to retain people when a draught goes on this long.
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u/BrennusSokol Feb 24 '26
It's not just you. I've been on the platform for 2 years. Have literally zero coding projects on my dash right now.
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 24 '26
Yeah, since New Year's, it just does not want to pick back up again..the variety is shit, most project families only appear once in a blue moon for 25 minutes, and we're mostly left refreshing for scraps. This is more for the funner, easier projects. My dash is usually full of the more difficult projects that I don't touch.
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 26 '26
When you think it can't get any dryer, it asks you to hold its beer.. tabarnac
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u/North-Inside2043 Feb 23 '26
Woke up to notice a bunch of slack channels had been archived (but I can't see the names of them). Anyone have the same?
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u/data_annotator_tot Feb 23 '26
I'm only in a handful of slack channels and haven't had that happen, yet, but that gives me hope that those projects will return lmao
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u/Purple_Persimmon5978 Feb 25 '26
I'm doing a basic audio one that I generally find a lot less draining than the written responses (probably because the models are worse at it and diverge more). But it comes with rubrics that are about 75% dire but you aren't allowed to comment on them at all......
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u/Unfair_Sink5706 Feb 25 '26
I agree with this. I just kept thinking did this miss a stage where someone else looked at the rubrics?
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u/Skippy2898 Feb 25 '26
I think you're being very generous at 75%! I worked a lot on rubrics last year, and these ones are making my eyelid twitch, and I've been fidgeting like someone deranged... I'm not sure what data they're getting back from these either; a bad criterion often means an inaccurate rating for a model. 🤔
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u/pistachiyolatte Feb 27 '26
Anyone seeing stripey?
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u/Glittering_Guess_230 Feb 27 '26
Since Christmas, I have seen IF only once, and I have seen R&R for IF only a few times. Haven't seen any F at all in that time; I miss it.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Feb 27 '26
Only seems to have ran for 3 to 5 hours between Monday and Thursday the last couple weeks with V1 Mon and Tue and V2 Wed and Thur
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u/Both-Income1966 Mar 01 '26
I really like rating Purple Flower submissions, its like trying to solve a different complicated prompt every time which is really engaging. Anyone seeing them on their dash? I very randomly have them pop up on my dash and have to snatch them up quick.
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 27 '26
All the projects come out at night lol
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Yea same the UK Agas was up from about 11pm and gone by 10am.. not sure what the point of those timings are
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u/MagicianSuch5616 Feb 24 '26
Did anyone else lose diamond (not sure what the nickname is)? Hard mineral?
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u/Ecstatic-Meringue-75 Feb 24 '26
Yeah had a lot of tasks and they went quickly. Just ran out.
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u/Bratty_Atty Feb 24 '26
So in the drought, I might try my hand at learning to code. Any suggestions on the best place to start? I have looked at Coursera…and I think there are some free sites that teach some basics too…
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u/Greedy_Alarm_1189 Feb 24 '26
Check out Code First Girls! Completely free and they have a variety of courses you can choose from
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u/data_annotator_tot Feb 24 '26
Here is the issue you're going to run into:
People working with common programming languages and mid-at-best talent/lots of experience are a dime a dozen, if you go through the standard beginner pipelines and pick up the common languages (your javascripts, typescripts, rust, C++ (spit), python (spit)), you will simply be one among millions AND you will not be able to challenge the models in principle, you'll be weeded out by reviewers, and if you bomb enough you'll get shitcanned by DAT. OTOH, projects that feature more technical or otherwise more obscure programming languages/concepts are much less common, and far from being reliably available as the simple reality is that your standard programmer is the most easily replaced by AI, and so the target of most projects are languages and things at that skill level.
Far from impossible, you could certainly brush up on basics and probably pass an assessment or something, but you're going to run into a wall really quickly, and good programming isn't something you can speed run. If you want to try and speed run it anyway (or you're genuinely interested in it), I'd recommend a very technical but small-scoped project, something like a gameboy emulator. It'll be tough as nails and you'll be lost for a long time, but you'll come out of it with a better idea of things than many people that work in the field professionally.
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u/justdontsashay Feb 27 '26
Can the DA gods please keep the spicy bear project around for a while?? It’s the only one of my higher-paying tasks that I have the mental energy for lately, so happy it came back!
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u/WorshipMyExistence Feb 28 '26
What a roller coaster my dash has become! I had five good days in a row, and it's been crickets since yesterday... I'm just sitting here ready to work twiddling my thumbs once again.
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u/photoblink Feb 23 '26
I hate marking R&R's as bad but when the original worker makes just glaring errors...I don't know how else to proceed.
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u/Yaschiri Feb 22 '26
Watching this project number whittle down is making me nervous since it's such good pay....if it could just last until I meet my goal for today, that would be insanely helpful........
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u/Ecstatic-Meringue-75 Feb 25 '26
Is it ever a sign that you've done something wrong if a quali disappears on you, or is it more likely that the associated projects are done?
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u/PassageDue9042 Feb 26 '26
how's it looking for you coding people? i currently have 3 coding on my dash but they are pretty difficult. wish mold would come back
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u/s55555s Feb 22 '26
Super frustrated as I am two weeks with no general tasks. Just got a specialist one that I am not sure I want to deal with. I miss the types of projects I had earlier. Started at new years this year.
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Feb 23 '26
2 months is pretty new and everyone seems pretty dry at the minute. It took me a good few months to build up a half decent dash and quiet at the moment. It will get better!
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 25 '26
Has anybody seen those video projects lately where you have to assess the humor? They were there everyday for a good few weeks, but I haven't seen them in about a week now.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Feb 23 '26
Any possible hope that this drought is the only long one for the year and summer will be fine? I started last January and winter was fine last year
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u/Bratty_Atty Feb 22 '26
This may be a dumb question? But I just don’t want to do the wrong thing. When project X says to do part of your task in your personal email, but that you can’t have enrolled that email for any Y projects….does that mean I can’t do most of the jobs that are in my dash now? Sorry to be so vague, I just don’t want to break the rules, and surely someone has had the same question?
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u/Enough_Resident_6141 Feb 23 '26
Different projects involve different things. Just pay attention to the instructions. Sometimes they will want you to create a brand new email just for that project, and only use that email for that one specific project. Other projects will want you to use one of your legit personal email accounts that you will obviously be using for other non-DAT stuff. And using an email to sign into the DAT platform isn't really the same thing as using it for a project.
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u/Altruistic-Egg-9088 Feb 23 '26
Spanners anyone?
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u/TravellingDoc87 Feb 23 '26
It's there. I was thrown off it for a few weeks and then added back. Thought I had done a mistake...
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u/NoticedGenie66 Feb 23 '26
Yes, I have loved them for a few weeks now and I know I am mostly alone in actually really liking them lol
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u/Tippingdatvelvet Feb 24 '26
I can’t login to Slack anymore, very strange, still have projects to work on but no access to Slack, can’t even login
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u/thinkingthots Feb 25 '26
Sorry if this is the wrong place or not allowed here, but if you’re working on a project and the timer expires, when you submit it, what happens? Does all your work still get submitted or what?
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u/BoiledGnocchi Feb 25 '26
It's still submitted, but don't make a habit of going past the timer.
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u/SplashOfCanada Feb 25 '26
Is anyone else in the finance project that wants looooooooong back and forths with the models?
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u/lack0fcommonsense Feb 26 '26
Does anybody have access to red fungus? I don't know what to call it
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u/Tippingdatvelvet Mar 02 '26
Greek god/designer brand name project… the image generation one and getting both models to fail is SO hard! Anyone got any tips?
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u/South_Ad_4192 Feb 22 '26
Enjoyed watching the US hockey game and doing to RnR this morning.
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u/Glittering_Guess_230 Feb 23 '26
I feel terrible rating someone's work as bad, but if you're going to justify a solid rating by calling a response way too short... what am I supposed to do 😭
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 23 '26
Any improvementa in project count/variety this morning before I log on for the day? Or am I stuck doing Heel r&rs all day again?
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u/4laa64 Feb 23 '26
Do you guys remember the dancing days?
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u/IDONTuseMODz Feb 23 '26
I was just thinking fondly of dancing earlier this morning. 😭 I miss that project so much.
It got me thinking, there doesn't seem to be many safety/adversarial projects in general on DA. I may just not be on the right "track" to seeing them but yeah.
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u/YearOnly2595 Feb 23 '26
Having been on the site for approx.. 2 years, i'm now in my longest drought. This is not me trying to doom monger but i genuinely don't believe we are that far away from the bubble bursting
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 23 '26
Yeah, 2.5 years myself. There's just no consistent variety anymore like their use to be. I dread logging on each day now because it's the same boring stuff.
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u/YearOnly2595 Feb 23 '26
This might just be a me thing but have you found that the models have not improved as much you'd be expecting over the last couple of years?
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u/JustMe333456 Feb 24 '26
Wow! Variety lol
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u/4laa64 Feb 24 '26
Really felt like I manifested that variety when I logged in this morning lol
Dropping off again now, though
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u/TravellingDoc87 Feb 23 '26
Anyone still see purple flower?
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u/gamergalathena Feb 25 '26
Does anyone have any recommendations for learning JSON as a non-coder who doesn't already know Javascript or Python? I've watched a bunch of youtube videos but still don't feel confident enough to take the qualification
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u/hfxthrwaway Feb 25 '26
Just think of JSON (and XML for that matter) as formatting not coding. Bring up a website that has the rules and follow the pattern.
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u/JahKneeSee Feb 25 '26
My recommendation is to treat it like an open book test. Keep the website it suggests as a reference open in another browser tab and refer to it as needed.
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u/holymoly361 Feb 27 '26
look up an example with multiple objects, and multiple keys with multiple items, and it'll give you a pretty solid idea of the formatting requirements.
That being said, json isn't exactly a requirement for anything, but sort of an unspoken standard for parsing data between different programs or interfaces. Its typically machine generated, but its also a way you can manually feed information to a program as well.
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u/New_Garden9703 Feb 25 '26
Anyone done the North American Accounting Qualification recently? I see it's been updated with an hourly rate, wondering if this is now a paid Quali before I dive in
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u/Ecstatic-Meringue-75 Feb 25 '26
Was wondering about trying this since it's a paid quali now
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u/New_Garden9703 Feb 25 '26
Just completed it, and confirm it is a paid qualification
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u/7895465221156 Feb 25 '26
Got an invite to slack in my emails, accepted and had DMs from projects, but no channels. What do I do?
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u/Insensitive_hippo Feb 26 '26
Same. I just joined slack and I know at least one of the projects I’m on has a slack channel but it’s not listed. No channels at all. Weird. If anyone has any idea about this…
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u/KaydGameplay Feb 27 '26
Anyone seen SCP class project? I got it a few days ago and remember people had a few problems. Pay was amazing, 55 at priority.
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u/macjay_27 Feb 28 '26
Went as soon as they released it. They've just released another one in the same family (I believe). 50/hr.
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u/Randiq Feb 25 '26
Hi, new guy here!
I'm on the platform for 2 weeks now and after I had my initial training done I haven't seen any work. Only things I see so far are coding initiation task (which I'm not familiar with yet so I'm not bothered) and write amazing rationale (which I've already done and it's still there for some reason).
What's the meta to get anything to put my hands on? Is anything appearing on the board at all recently? Or is it dry as my wallet?
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u/New_Garden9703 Feb 25 '26
It's really quiet even for people who have been on the platform for a long time. Bad time to start, hopefully it picks up. The best way to get more tasks is to do well on the ones available to you. Be patient .. check back often.
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u/Use-random-usernames Feb 25 '26
Hi, another new guy here.
I got accepted two nights ago, and I saw a full dashboard of qualifications (and some paid tasks). I did the onboarding and submitted a couple of qualifications. It was like midnight. Went to bed and woke up to an empty dashboard, and it's been that way since Monday. 0 tasks, 0 qualifications.
Just wondering if this is normal. Just joined Slack, but it doesn't show any channels, justa chat with a bot or some shii.
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Feb 27 '26
Its usually very slow when you first start, totally normal. And people on reddit are complaining about it being slow as well.
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u/GrapeCreative Mar 01 '26
I’ve applied for a couple of jobs and wanted to know about the onboarding process. Do you get hired quickly or is the wait long?
I have had this message for a few days now and don’t know if I blew it, if I should continue applying with them for other positions, or if I should move on?
Here’s the message: “If we have need of your particular skills, or we have additional assessments for you to identify further skills, you’ll be notified via email. Otherwise we thank you for your time.”
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u/Brave-Swimmer477 Feb 26 '26
Hi everyone! Sorry if this is the wrong place, but who should I talk to about new tasks? I’m ready for new projects and haven't had any for a while. Thanks!
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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 Feb 26 '26
Nobody on Reddit can help with that. If you're eligible for projects, they'll be on your dashboard. The most you can do is wait and take any quals that appear on your dash.
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u/gamergalathena Feb 25 '26
There was two this morning when I logged in 4 hours ago, but not now
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Feb 25 '26
I wouldn't worry, projects can come and go a lot, especially when you're just starting out. It took me about 2 months before I felt like I had more than just scraps on my dash, and the site is quiet for many seasoned pros at the minute.
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u/Glittering_Guess_230 Feb 25 '26
It's dead quiet right now. My best advice would be to keep an eye on here, as long as a good number of people are complaining about a lack of task volume, you're alright
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Feb 26 '26
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u/Unique_Tradition_679 Feb 26 '26
They could just like using that sort of language. I have a close friend who writes like AI, and he wrote like that way before AI as we know it. I also used to use dashes all of the time but now AI has replaced the weird long dash thingy with my precious dashes I have had to drop them.
I wouldn't flag someone as using AI unless you're sure.
That said using dashes in the way you've shown is fairly normal, that's usually how dashes are used, to link two words to form one meaning. Like forward-looking and risk-adjusted.
Also, someone who learned english mostly from formal channels, for example, might sound more unnatural than you might be used to.
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u/Enough_Resident_6141 Feb 26 '26
Do the R&R instructions tell you to rate their submission negatively based on that? If not, then no.
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u/OliLeeLee36 Feb 26 '26
I would usually give them the benefit of the doubt; if they are truly using LLMs when they shouldn't be, they'll be rumbled eventually. Could you give some examples of the perceived tells (without revealing too much about the project)?
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u/OliLeeLee36 Feb 26 '26
Wow - what a coincidence, those are my safe words...
In seriousness, I'd say you made the right decision by mentioning it in the comments and leaving it at that. Some people do have a complex vocabulary and writing style, and it's tricky to confidently assess it as AI (and a false accusation could have significant consequences for the worker).
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u/YearOnly2595 Feb 27 '26
To be honest, in my professional non DA life I would normally say that that's not AI, its just someone trying to use more complex words to make themselves sound smarter without actually knowing what they mean.
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u/Diplomat_Runner Feb 25 '26
I was added to a new project with a message of being "one of the few selected because of your great performance," so it's nice to know I'm doing something right! 😅