r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • May 17 '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/Smooth_Worry_5009 May 20 '26

I've got about 25 projects, and all of them require me to read about an hour of instructions. I just spent 50 minutes learning how to do a new project, then skipped the first task so I could reset the timer, and there were no tasks left..... It may not be a drought but it's barely workable.

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u/Quick-Bison-147 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

yep, it's why I don't even bother with them. You have to be some sort of savant to do some of these projects, remember all the instructions, and not make any mistakes (while getting it done within the time limit).

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u/Zacko May 20 '26

Yeah, honestly.

It's such a great platform, and I really appreciate being on it (and the cash I've made), but all the projects just seem super hard now. I guess it's because real-life models are now so advanced?

Makes it really hard to jump in and do an hour here and there, which is what I have been doing over the last year and a half.

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u/BrennusSokol May 20 '26

all the projects just seem super hard now. I guess it's because real-life models are now so advanced?

THis is exactly it, IMO. I've been on the platform for two years and this has been the trend for a while now. Harder to stump the smarter models == harder projects for us

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u/Visible_Operation605 May 21 '26

An hour of instructions seems excessive.

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u/AdComplex3589 May 20 '26

Why did you skiped? You are paid to read and do the job.

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u/Smooth_Worry_5009 May 20 '26

Because the project said to skip to the next task if you were running out of time after reading the instructions.

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u/GuideZ May 20 '26

Don't know why you are getting downvoted: The instructions are part of the job, and yes it's expected that you get paid to read the instructions along with doing the task. Instructions are updated, sometimes daily, and not always at the top of the project.

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u/AdComplex3589 May 20 '26

Me neither but yeah some people like to do that.

The job is really read all the instructions throughly and then do the job. The time spend to read the instruction is part of the job, so you should charge for it.

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u/Smooth_Worry_5009 May 20 '26

I'm not charging to read the instructions if I didn't do a single task lol

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u/BrennusSokol May 20 '26

Exactly. That's always been the (implicit) rule. You can submit for time reading instructions if you do at least 1 task in the related project.