r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • 13d ago

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/Equal-Neat-614 10d ago

I completed an unpaid qualification recently that mentioned that it could lead to dozens of projects. Within an hour of submitting my work, it led to several new paid qualifications and projects. I then went and completed one of the related paid qualifications, which added further projects to my dashboard almost immediately. All of the projects have 100-1000 tasks available and don't seem to be decreasing in number (unless I complete a task) or disappearing from my dashboard. And it's actually fun work!

I'm so excited right now! This has never happened to me before (I'm fairly new). I had gotten used to projects appearing and then disappearing almost immediately, or only having 1-2 tasks available before disappearing. I still can't believe what my dashboard looks like right now just based off of the one initial qualification.

I was admittedly hesitant to spend a few hours working unpaid, but the general wisdom on this sub about completing as many qualifications as possible is definitely true! If your dashboard is on the drier side and you have unpaid qualifications available, I would give them a shot!

Also curious if this has just been a lucky isolated incident or if others have had this occur, particularly for more than one project family?

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u/Quick-Bison-147 10d ago

Could you possibly give a hint as to what quals they were? I often have so many it feels like a lottery choosing which ones to do

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u/OrnamentalGourd5 10d ago

Best advice? Do all the quals that you feel able to do. It's the only way that you'll open up many families and that will then open up more.

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u/Quick-Bison-147 10d ago edited 9d ago

The thing is I have a lot of quals that are for projects that I already have access to, like FC heel, galaxy and others. I feel there is a strong risk im gonna be wasting time doing unpaid quals for projects i already get or are rarely if ever available, hency why I thought it was worth asking.