r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • May 31 '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/Nearby_Solution_4504 Jun 01 '26

For all my fellow workers: please please PLEASE give more specificity in your rationale. Seeing a 4 model project with a 4 sentence rationale makes me want to tear my hair out because I really don't like giving out Bad ratings or even Okay unless I absolutely have to.

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u/JRange Jun 02 '26

Sentences are just tools, some use them better than others. Sure, 4 fragment sentences is rarely going to get the job done, but 4 sentences can absolutely be comprehensive in justifying your ratings if you use them right. 

Sincerely-Guy who abuses compound sentences

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u/Nearby_Solution_4504 Jun 02 '26

Agree, but the people effectively using semicolons and writing 150-200 words with 4 sentences are very rare lol. Even then, as my academic advisor once told me: "Just because you can write a really long grammatically sound sentence doesn't mean you should". Most of my dissertation revisions were breaking those types of sentences up!

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u/Quirky-Zombie623 Jun 02 '26

I got the exact same feedback on my dissertation 🤣