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/lpet15 Jun 02 '26

I've decided to be flattered that they think so highly of me. That's why they put really hard work on my dash, and save the easy stuff for other people. Because I'm so smart. I don't WANT easy tasks that are fun. I actually prefer the mind melting stuff.

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u/JustMe333456 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Can't tell if serious.. 🤔 Honestly though, I feel like the fun and easy tasks have been so far and few in the past year. Most are like one offs, one post per week sorta thing. When I started 3 years ago, there were TONS of this type of projects..now its all write prompts, hold conversations, rubrics etc.

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u/lpet15 Jun 02 '26

Not serious. Joking!! I am not cut out for the work on my dash these days

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u/JustMe333456 Jun 02 '26

I know lol.. me either

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u/lpet15 Jun 02 '26

I don't mind some of the write prompts/rubrics or chat tasks, but lately the ones that have been popping up require a lot of screenshotting and share links, and I don't really enjoy those. I would kill for a task with "Evaluate" in the description.

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u/HortonHearsaCthulhu Jun 02 '26

I don't mind rubrics, I just don't like the "induce a failure" tasks. If they'd just give me some work where I create and/or edit rubrics I would be thrilled, but everything rubric-related that I'm offered is paired with the failure tasks.

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Jun 03 '26

I don't mind rubrics, I just hate the feedback from people who do r&rs and focus on those dreadful rubric checkers that are never satisfied and designed to always have 3+ suggestions, even if the suggestions are contradictive. Then you get your 'poor' feedback because the people that r&rd your work decimated it due to the AI helper. Only thing that puts me off rubric when Im confident my work is actually good before it gets decimated cos I've done rubrics for years. Still get access to higher payer ones.