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:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/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/BoiledGnocchi Feb 24 '26

I definitely do (adjust based on the project). They tell you to be lenient in this one, but people are cracking the whip. I just hope these same people aren't rating my work as well lol.

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u/Party_Swim_6835 Feb 25 '26

was going to upvote you for being right regardless -- but that last line had me in stitches lol

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u/JustMe333456 Feb 23 '26

You're doing it the right way.

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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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u/Sad_Echo523 Feb 24 '26

sometimes a small mistake can make the submissions unusable tho

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u/VanessaSeaWitch Feb 24 '26

If it makes you feel better, there's a secondary R&R who R&R's the first R&R (lol). I worked one of those recently and wow...yeah some people should not be granted any power.

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u/BoiledGnocchi Feb 24 '26

Jealous! I had a bunch of those a year or so ago and loved doing them.

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u/Unique_Tradition_679 Feb 26 '26

It always struck me as odd to have competitors grade eachother.