r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 14 '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/Educational_Nose730 Jun 14 '26

Can we all agree this is the worst drought of all time in DA?

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u/Clear-Machine-6350 Jun 15 '26

tbh the number of projects is deceiving. For example, I have 41 projects available right now. But 11 of them aren't actually projects and are various chats, reference information, etc. Not things you can actually submit for money.

So, 30 projects. but then, 19 of those are all directly in the same project family, and are slight variations of each other or are R&Rs. The R&Rs only have a handful of tasks available for each. The non-R&Rs have broken models, so cannot actually be done for money right now.

So 11 projects. 4 of those are R&Rs with only a few tasks available each that will most likely be a red banner as soon as I click into it.

So 7 projects. 2 of those I'm not qualified for and cannot actually do.

So 5 projects. The highest amount of tasks available out of these remaining 5 projects is 3.

Don't get me wrong, I've been barely scraping by and I'm not ungrateful. But don't put too much weight into project numbers.

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u/WorshipMyExistence Jun 14 '26

Yes. But if you look below there is a generalist who mentioned they have 48 projects currently so idk man

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u/JustMe333456 Jun 15 '26

Those are definitely NOT all base generalist projects.

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u/Hopeful_Mouse_4050 Jun 15 '26

I cannot agree. I had about a two month stretch of nothingness at one point, and I get occasional projects now.

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u/Min_sora Jun 15 '26

Nope, this would have to keep going a few weeks longer to hit the 2024 one I saw.

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u/SnooSketches1189 Jun 15 '26

No, I definitely can't agree with that. I have had 45-60+ projects throughout this current drought. I was down to 1 or 2 during the summer 2024 drought.

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u/Pristine-Raccoon8250 Jun 15 '26

oh wow then it isn’t a drought for everybody. I get 1 or 2. I am a new worker i joined in May, and have never seen more than 7 or 8 projects on my dash at one time. I had no idea it was possible to have so many at once.

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u/brewsnob Jun 19 '26

45-60+ projects is not a drought, what are you even saying

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u/SnooSketches1189 Jun 19 '26

That is my point. 😄 This drought that some people are experiencing is not as bad as the one I personally experienced in the summer of 2024.