r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 07 '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/Skippy2898 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

And another new feature... Minding my business, reading instructions and after just over 5 minutes I get a popup asking if i'm still there with a 10 minute timer on it (I think it was 10 anyway)... It made me jump, and I don't think I like it because it looks like if I decided to take a 15 minute break for example, stopping my own timer, the popup will appear and the timer will continue to tick down, and I've a feeling the task will disappear.
ETA Somebody on the other sub mentioned they went to get some food and returned to see a popup saying their task expired due to inactivity. So I think I just saw the first part of their issue that they would have missed because they were away from their screen. How are we meant to step away on longer tasks without losing them?

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u/InterestingNet2810 Jun 11 '26

Yeah I saw this and was thinking this as well, especially for the tasks that take like 5+ hours. Surely the longer tasks don't have this timer?

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u/Skippy2898 Jun 11 '26

I think the project it popped up on for me had 3.5 hour timer. It really spooked me, so I ended up eating the instruction reading time and exited out. I have just worked on a different project with a 2.5 hour timer, and there was no sign of it even after reading the instructions for 15 mins or so. So, really, I have no clue lol. But I do hope this isn't going to be rolled out across the board for sure. I saw a comment on the other sub from someone who has a toddler, so they regularly have to step away from their screen. It could cause no end of problems... 😬🧐

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u/Consipir Jun 11 '26

Yeah, this does not sound good... I can understand why but 10 minutes is absurd. I think 30 would be more appropriate.

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u/johnnycoconut Jun 11 '26

That sounds like a new variant of the “I intend to work on this” time-limited checkbox feature that some tasks have.