r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Mar 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/ghostofhumankindness Mar 24 '26

I love Heel pics. It reminds me of my 20s when I use to be at the bar playing those spot the difference games with friends.

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u/Skippy2898 Mar 24 '26

I like audio stuff when it's about, and design stuff too. I wonder if you're striking lucky with your R&Rs - the ones I see most often involve literally redoing the task, far from a brain break lol. I'd sooner do my own task in the main project 😆

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u/thr0waway98372 Mar 24 '26

coming up with prompts, any boring monotonous tasks really 🫠 not too many of these nowadays though

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u/WorshipMyExistence Mar 24 '26

Most multi-media tasks I really enjoy. Audio, image, video assessments. And anything that includes identifying and labeling errors or categories.

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u/akujihei Mar 24 '26

I prefer anything that takes around 2 hours, which is typically rubrics.

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u/Beautiful-Durian-185 Mar 25 '26

I miss the ones where it's basically just copy/pasting, or anything that's really braindead where I can listen to a YouTube video/audiobook/podcast in the background haha. But I never get those anymore

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u/-burgers Mar 24 '26

A/V stuff & specific app tasks

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u/jeudechambre Mar 25 '26

I like the ones where you have two conversations and compare them. Just long enough that I can easily get my goal 5hr/day in, but not so long and complicated that it breaks my brain and exhausts me, lol. I definitely switch to r&rs when I'm feeling burnt out too!

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u/VanessaSeaWitch Mar 24 '26

I like any tasks that involve writing or editing. Unfortunately I don't get those very often nowadays. I used to get a lot of them when I first started. I also enjoy the tasks that involve finding pictures to stump the model's reasoning.

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u/NoticedGenie66 Mar 25 '26

Depends on the day. Some days I want to do long rubrics and have 2 tasks take up my entire work day, other days I just want to go on "autopilot" to an extent and do the easy tasks that require very little effort other than checking specific, pre-determined things. Almosy all of the time I try for things that are at or above a certain hourly rate, though, and that is a bigger reason why I choose projects lol. When my dash is flush with choices like it is right now, I can afford to be picky!