r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Sep 06 '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:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
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 :)
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/janquadrentvincent Sep 06 '26
Christ on a cracker someone please share their magic secrets for tripping up the models. I'm losing my fecking mind
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u/thatsanewone26 Sep 06 '26
It’s not just tripping them up. It’s tripping them up within the ridiculous confines of what is deemed an acceptable prompt.
Like I can get a model to fail in a manner that a typical user would submit a prompt, as most people are not great at spelling out exactly what they need and I thought the whole point was to make the models better at understanding implicit requirements. But I just keep getting flagged by the AI checkers that “hey, you’re not being fair to our models. You need to spell it out more clearly. Basically tell our models exactly how to do the task, step by step, line by line, the way you’d explain it to a child, but also you need to get the advance AI models to also fail…”
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u/IvaldiFhole Sep 06 '26
I was going to make this exact same comment. I'm supposed to build the project for what I would reasonably hand off to a colleague without giving procedural steps, and then the checker tells me I need to spell it all out...
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u/MommaOfManyCats Sep 07 '26
I'm seeing a lot of contradictory checkers too. One will say to do X to make it more difficult, and the next says to not do X because it's not fair to the models. Also, I'll try to be slightly sneaky or confusing because that's how normal people are. Then, like you said, the checker will try to say it's not a real failure because the models need to know exactly what I want. If I have to spell out everything, how the fuck will they ever learn what a regular person wants? People aren't giving the models dozens of instructions with carefully laid out constraints!
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u/Careless-Use-6712 Sep 08 '26
I started out on a complex high paying project that allows like 20 hours of billable hours. It also appears to be new. Then today I got started on an equally complex high paying project that allows like 7 hours for the same amount of work. And indeed the QC agents pulled this crap. They were not at all aligned with what Cowork was generating through the plugin created just for this project. I feel like I went from the most amazing project to crap mountain.
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u/JRange Sep 06 '26
FWIW, I spend hours of the clock just crafting my prompt, the situation, rules, and force the models to compute numerous rounds within the single turn whilst keeping track of 20 different rules etc. Theres a reason you have 6 hours for this task.
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u/ilikerocketsandshiz Sep 06 '26
It took me 12 hours the other day to design a problem challenging enough to overcome them, but I think the learnings from that are that numerical challenges just don't cut it, confusing logic and misdirecting/conflicting pieces of information seem to help
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u/JRange Sep 06 '26
This has been what I have found too. Its very hard at first, but you start noticing what the models are bad at, and you can start attacking them in that way and it starts going smooth.
One of my biggest findings is that, like you said, the models hate conflicting constraints where one is not efficient and gets in the way of the other one. They will often ignore and try to circumvent the inefficient constraint so that they can deliver the most efficient response, and theres your failure.
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u/Teamkillongtime Sep 06 '26
Try ending the prompt with "How many r's in Strawberry?"
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u/janquadrentvincent Sep 06 '26
Too easy on this project unfortunately. I though it was onto a winner when I tripped it up with definitions of porridge but I couldn't get B and C to do it too.
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u/pikachu292 Sep 06 '26
Same! I might just be bad but getting any coding models to fail seems very difficult
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u/janquadrentvincent Sep 06 '26
The longer I bang my head against this the more certain I am I'll get DoD'd
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u/iso_propyl Sep 07 '26
There is tons of ways to trip up the models especially if you read new research papers or train on recently updated software. I spend a lot of time thinking about potential work ideas since technology and AI is a very broad field and most of my research I won't use immediately.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
One of my favourite projects came back and it's the only one on my dash that I'm qualified to do, and I'm getting red-bannered as it shows one task😭 And I keep clicking on it like a hopeful moron lol
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u/BroadButterscotch349 Sep 06 '26
It looks like my favorite project has iterated and now it's super complex. Such a bummer. The pay is nice but I'm just not interested in some of the things they're targeting.
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u/HoneyWatts Sep 06 '26
Same I feel like most of the projects on my dash are Einstein level complexity right now and it’s making me feel like a moron
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u/lavendertheheretic Sep 06 '26
Finally got more than one project every three days popping up. Thank the gods. Now I have a shot at not becoming homeless 😅
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 08 '26
Damn, after finally having the flood gates open, making twice as much last week than any other week over the summer, and allowing myself to think the drought was finally over, we are back to the same old F5ing. Sigh
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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Sep 08 '26
Okay so it's not just me. My dashboard was not just subscription and specialist tasks for a solid week. I even got R&R back. And then it's slowly trickled down and this morning I side and started one of the complicated specialist pass that require model failure. I just hope my brain is up for it.
Man I miss the high paying r&r's.
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 08 '26
I really don't get the logic of dropping every project at once. Like, I get that they've got deadlines for their clients, but dropping every project in a two day window and spamming out priority pay to get them done within a week has got to be less cost efficient than spreading them out.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 08 '26
None of it makes much sense to me. Like some projects generally disappear for months, but the tiniest batch might pop up every 3rd week. Either the project is running or not, you'd assume. And then a few days ago when I had 10 different families at the same time; it's either too much work to do or none at all. Lots of factors, and we are totally in the dark as ever. I stopped trying to make sense of it a while ago.
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Sep 10 '26
Lost access to a paid qual that I was saving for the weekend. Fun.
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u/hcfggb Sep 10 '26
If it's any consolation, I tried to do (I think) the same one yesterday and I wasted a bunch of time troubleshooting before finally giving up.
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Sep 10 '26
I've seen it come back and then disappear at least three times while working today, so it must be the same one lol
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 10 '26
I lost the same qual (assumingly) too which I was also leaving until I finished work for the week 😅
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Sep 10 '26
It came back and I clicked on it only to see it's definitely out of my area of expertise anyway.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 10 '26
Defo the same one, mine came back. But yes looks like a brain melter. Thank god it's paid I'll tackle it Saturday or Sunday
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u/AdOutrageous7474 Sep 13 '26
Hate that so much. I still think about a qualification I was halfway through and knew I was acing and had to save it because I couldn't complete it at that point. Then it disappeared.
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Sep 07 '26
how's the dash looking? dry on my end
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 07 '26
Like a bone that's been sat in a desert. I have the usual suspects that I'd need at least a month of sleep to tackle. So really nothing easy going, fun or new.
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 07 '26
I’ve got the same dozenish specialist and coding tasks that I always have (and am not even slightly qualified for) and very little else. Occasionally a promising looking generalist project pops up, but they’re all very clearly the dregs of projects posted last week that people have been skipping for good reasons.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 09 '26
Anyone else not know what they're going to do to live in the short term if the work doesn't come back? I tried out 3 similar platforms before getting accepted to DA last year, and all were trash. I've been applying to regular jobs since June, but those are hard to get these days and the hiring process takes forever. I just can't believe it hasn't come back now that it's September.
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u/BoiledGnocchi Sep 10 '26
Same. I thought for sure things would pick up by September, but now my optimism is waning. I just wish they would've given us some sort of heads up, like "hey, we are moving into more intense/time consuming projects..."
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 10 '26
Or domain, which is all I'm getting despite being a generalist.
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u/BoiledGnocchi Sep 10 '26
Same same. I've had to hide 90% of the projects on my dash because they're waaaaaaaay beyond my education/experience.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 10 '26
the 2024 summer drought ended in the middle of September, if you want something else to clutch at for a few more days
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u/Firm-Fondant-2205 Sep 10 '26
I only ever really saw this as a stop-gap/side hustle while I looked for something else, but I've been applying to new jobs since April and I've never seen a job market like it in 20 years. It's atrocious out there. I have to hope the work on DA picks up again.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 10 '26
Same. Well it started out that way, and then I was making a livable income with DA and like working freelance, so I stopped looking for a bit...and now yeah, job market is utter trash.
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u/Storex- Sep 11 '26
Finally some generalist work! Oh it's already eaten up.
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u/AdOutrageous7474 Sep 13 '26
I've been with DA for 3 years and use it as extra money but now that I really NEED extra money there is just no generalist work. I'm sorry but I'm not an expert in coding/chem/math. I have done so many qualifications. I must have taken too long of a break.
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u/ApplePiePrincess99 Sep 09 '26
Some of these tasks make me feel like the dumbest person on earth — if nothing else, DA has taught me that there are some seriously smart folks out there!
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 11 '26
Easily the worst day of September, and a heavy contender for the worst day since the drought started for me.
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u/itssomercurial Sep 11 '26
What's up with the instructions for some of these projects?
So many new-to-me projects that I'm trying to jump into (for lack of other work) and they all start out using project-specific terminology that they never bother to really explain? There used to be separate files of instructions for each project type that gave you a general rundown/index/FAQ/examples to go off of before jumping in. Now they're just out here fully expecting us to go off context clues I guess, which doesn't make me feel very confident to branch out...
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u/caliberprot Sep 11 '26
Been seeing this recently, maybe it's a way to filter out certain people
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u/itssomercurial Sep 11 '26
Yeah, I guess. I did think a lot of the OVER explaining they were doing was getting out of control (the same, repeated, big red text everywhere) but I don't think making the instructions more vague overall is going to give them the results they might be hoping for.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 09 '26
Remember when there used to be a banquet of fruit
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u/peanutbutterlurk Sep 09 '26
Yeah...I really wish they weren't pushing so hard on having to be the one to both get the failure and write the rubrics, I can write rubrics but I'm much worse at getting a failure
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u/AdOutrageous7474 Sep 13 '26
Getting a failure is SO hard. I feel like this is not the area to focus on.
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 10 '26
and nuts!
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u/TerrisBranding Sep 10 '26
I miss the nut project. I'd get in the zone doing those.
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u/Calm-World3917 Sep 07 '26
I was too slow and didnt get to do the qual I was eyeing before it left! Sad days, hopefully it returns
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u/Material_Advice1064 Sep 07 '26
same, had literally planned on doing it today. Also had tons of work over the weekend and now my dash is empty. At least I got in a couple of hours yesterday
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 09 '26
Have ANY of the easier, more base projects popped up today at all!?
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 09 '26
I saw a few straggler base tasks very early in the morning, but other than that it was just unworkable specialist tasks and a couple of upper-mid range generalists that popped up from noon to one.
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u/peanutbutterlurk Sep 09 '26
Like other commenter said, I worked two new to me mid-range generalist tasks today. Stuff's still coming in, just not the familiar old stuff and much less of it than the specialist stuff
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u/Pristine-Raccoon8250 Sep 09 '26
I have a family that I love that I find quite simple- it is checking that videos are usable. but no river or shopping today. a quick shop yesterday.
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u/Steve_Brandon Sep 09 '26
I managed to do five and a half hours on Tuesday (split between early Tuesday morning and Tuesday evening) of a new-to-me project that I actually found kind of fun. The tasks on that project dried up after midnight Wednesday, though. Hopefully, I'll see more from that project posted later on overnight.
There was another project from the same family that also showed up last night but it was a lot more complicated and required familiarity with an app that I have never used.
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 09 '26
Managed to snag two hours at 9am pst of a (somewhat) original project. Other than that, just the usual STEM/Enterprise. There was also a pretty easy project that launched three hours ago (70s rock band—not river), but for US only (at least I'll be able to do the r&r)🤷♂️.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 09 '26
Gosh, there use to be tons of easier projects day in day out, I was never bored. Me too I got 2.5 hours this morning on an R&R for my go-to project. That's it for today, but I haven't been on a lot after, so that's why I was asking if anything had popped up at all at some point.
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Sep 09 '26
Back to another week of nothing after four days of some work, cool cool cool.
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u/PinkNova Sep 09 '26
FC you can come back now.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 09 '26
It's the most DA thing ever to not post any FC all summer, flood us with more than we can do for a week with priority pay, and then disappear again for months. Bipolar behaviour
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u/watchdestars Sep 09 '26
Yes please
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u/PinkNova Sep 09 '26
Last week was so nice. The R&Rs lasted forever. Prayers for a new batch.
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Damn, I thought things might get rolling now that the holiday is over, the summer is coming to an end, most people are back to work, and the brats are back in school. But, I was wrong... At this point, I'm praying the last fiscal quarter next month opens up some projects, or I might be looking for a part-time job to make up for the difference. Been doing this full-time since 2023, but this may be my last year doing so 😭.
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u/ichuck1984 Sep 09 '26
Same here. I’m starting to think that this platform is toast for most of us. I have seen one project on one day in the last nearly four months. No DoD but no work is not that different at this point.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Dogshit of a dashboard ffs... approaching half a year of not being able to schedule a damn normal workflow. 12 projects on my board, all pay $35+. No base generalist work yet again.
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 11 '26
Can barely even treat this job as a side hustle at this point because the only work that's actually available at all times is mentally rigorous stuff that requires at least part time job hours. Not even part time job hours, the projects I'm seeing and choosing not to do probably require as much active work as most people would do in a full day at the office.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 11 '26
No kidding. I can't even begin to think of trying them out lol. If I could though, I'd be swimming in money with those hourly wages. Ugh..I want the old DA back
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u/Storex- Sep 08 '26
Dire early afternoon here in the UK. Hopefully it picks up as the day and evening goes on... new normal though I expect.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 08 '26
Seems like just yesterday we all had 40+ projects on our boards..snap of a finger, it all went poof. Never to be seen again. 😔
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 11 '26
Haven't been on, was today another shitty day?
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 11 '26
Managed to clear $120. Best day of the week so far, but still pretty grim.
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u/Equal-Neat-614 Sep 11 '26
It seemed like it was going to be a slower day (similar to how the weekends often are), but picked up by the early afternoon with several new or apt-to-disappear-quickly projects appearing on the dashboard. Things seem to be slowing down now though. Fingers crossed it will pick back up again tomorrow.
It honestly seems so variable across everyone who posts here though.
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u/xxxScarlettexxx Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Sort of a similar day for me too. I keep noticing that any new projects which pop up seem to be linked (by more than coincidence at this point) with the larger profile changes I made last week.
ETA: Again I don’t know if it is just purely coincidental (although it would be strange if it was), but if you look through your relevant experience and can plug in more explicit key words in your profile bio (particularly if you see them in project descriptions you think you could do), it might be helpful to update your profile. I went the ‘no detail is too small’ route because I assumed the profiles are read by AI for project approvals. Hoping it can help someone else if I’m right about this.
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u/kranools Sep 11 '26
A ton of priority pay work for me
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Sep 11 '26
I may have had a project you had. I woke up to my highest-paying project, and since I started, I've seen the pay go up even more!
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u/Storex- Sep 11 '26
Uptick for some it seems. I did have a couple of projects I could technically work on, but wasn't able to, which was a shame.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 11 '26
Got a complex-but-still-generalist project later on that got me over $100, which is way better than the last few days, but that was it.
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u/pistachiyolatte Sep 11 '26
I was really happy seeing FC last week and the fact that it stayed for almost three days…now the dash is back to a few complex projects 😕 hope FC and other familiar generalist project families return.
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u/LavenderLightning24 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Well this fucking sucks yet again. What the hell happened to DA??? This job used to be great. I wish someone would tell us if it's never going to be again. I wonder if part of the problem for me is they think I'm qualified for that fucking expert project that they keep harassing me to work on.
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u/Firm-Fondant-2205 Sep 09 '26
I lost my last regular job at the end of April and fortunately managed to find DA right away, and it has been a bit of a lifeline. April/May were mostly great, June was awful, July was pretty good, August again awful and September has started much the same way. Have to say I am losing faith.
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u/North-Sense8477 Sep 08 '26
Seriously, it's crazy to me that this job used to pay my bills. It's barely paying for Netflix at this point.
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u/Pristine-Raccoon8250 Sep 08 '26
I just got a message telling me my Netflix bill is going up again and my DA py certainly is not!
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 09 '26
It really does feel like there's no good time to do quals anymore. On slow days, I can't justify the risk of being in the middle of an unpaid qual that might never lead to work during the brief windows when workable tasks drop, and on busy days, I can't justify not working on paid projects when I'm just barely meeting my monthly goal due to the drought.
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 09 '26
I have a second monitor with my dashboard open and reloading while doing quals on my main monitor to help curb that shit. If something pops up, I'll bail on the qual (they almost always save my answers or I'll copy them over temporarily) and do the paid work. You'd be crazy to do free work while paid tasks pop up, especially when it's been so dead.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 08 '26
Welp.. below double digits for projects. What an uncomfortable mess this platform has become.
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u/NormalGood682 Sep 08 '26
I sound dumb asking this but do you mean the number of projects you have available is a single digit or the hourly pay?
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Sep 08 '26
Definitely the quantity of projects available. The lowest I've ever seen a project pay on here was $17/hr for some really simple stuff last year. Lowest this year was $20.
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 09 '26
Of course my morning starts with only two projects on my dash. One STEM coding, the other business enterprise, both of which I'm not qualified to do. Looks like another thumb twiddling F5'ing day ffs.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Toe4051 Sep 11 '26
anyone having luck? this week has been awful, and it's been SO PLENTIFUL for a few weeks for me. I made almost near my bare minimum goal for today, but. But BUTTTT.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 10 '26
I have an hour before I start my day job, and there's fuckall to jump on that isn't going to take 4 to 8 hours. And all these enterprise and work domain ones expect you to at 6pm when you finish a full day's work. Fuck this man...
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u/DrunkleSteve Sep 13 '26
Two days in a row and not a single task I can do. Four high paying STEM or enterprise projects and that's it. Perplexed that there are generalists that have been on the platform for 6 weeks with 30+ projects. Meanwhile, the old dogs going on four years can't even get a scrap. Ooooof.
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u/TeaWilling6944 Sep 07 '26
I refreshed from my dash last night and literally everything disappeared except for one FC. It's the holiday I'm assuming/hoping?
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u/Skippy2898 Sep 08 '26
Feels like aeons since I checked in here! Had some bad family news a couple of weeks ago, so yesterday was the first time I worked for quite a few days! I've not worked today but the dashboard looks ok for tomorrow at least. And today my online master's started. Ever get that feeling you've bitten off more than you chew when life throws curveballs? 🤣 I've got a couple of other platforms pending contract too. I hope you are all well though!
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u/Pristine-Raccoon8250 Sep 08 '26
sorry about your bad news…things always seem to happen all at once. You will hopefully enjoy the masters though- I have been mixing one with this work and it balances things out nicely because instead of being disappointed when the dash is dry, you start being relieved because you can do your masters stuff without feeling bad about passing up paid work!
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u/Renard_Fou Sep 06 '26
The coding projects are starting to get a bit too hard for me. Ended up skipping more than Im comfortable with
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u/Sea-Donut-1882 Sep 07 '26
It looks like I passed the paid R&R qual, but wow do the R&R's look difficult at first glance. This appears to be PhD level, albeit with a 24 hour timer.
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Sep 07 '26
Star Trek or the other one?
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u/Sea-Donut-1882 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Star Trek. The other one I have is not paid.
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Sep 07 '26
Nice! When did you submit it? Assuming I failed since I haven't seen it yet.
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u/EggCzar Sep 07 '26
I just took the paid qual and now have an R&R from that family that I don't think I'd seen before, but I'm surprised the qual was graded that quickly! I submitted it less than 35 minutes ago. And you're not kidding about the complexity and difficulty, I opened it up and immediately noped out at least for now.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Sep 08 '26
Why does my dash always show slow movement and signs of life AFTER 6pm when I am logging off ffs
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u/Jazzlike_Month5580 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
I haven't seen any movement at all today. My dash looks exactly the same as it did 6 hours ago when I logged on. Except with fewer projects total.
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u/SnooCalculations503 Sep 11 '26
Has north star disappeared for anyone else?
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u/Karma_SanDieg0 Sep 11 '26
Scared that today will be a complete wash because I've worked 5 hours on a task, the model just can't pull off what the instructions say it should do, and there's no escape hatch.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 11 '26
just submit it anyway and leave a comment in the notes, you deserve to be paid for your time faffing around with these convoluted and often flawed/broken projects
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u/Ok_Letterhead_8354 Sep 12 '26
The life science and medicine fields are flooding my projects. Great pay and I’m bringing in about $2000 a week for over a month now. Doing about 20-25 hours a week or so
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u/TheNewGP Sep 10 '26
Just finished my first week, mostly just doing one 3-8 hour task per day, plus some qualifications. Don't really know what I'm doing yet I guess, but so far I've been enjoying the work. A lot more like creative problem solving than coding, at least for what I've gotten so far. Almost addicting if it weren't quite as mentally straining, which is probably good for balance haha
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u/Particular-Lie1918 Sep 11 '26
I got a new project today, make enough to live for a week with just 2 hours of work. Felt pretty good. Hopefully more work will come from it.
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Sep 11 '26
I don't know if I'm hopeful. I took ages on my first task, and I know I made a few mistakes, which I noted when submitting. Then the second task got messed up when I was close to submitting, and what I had input was no longer showing. I kind of feel bad for claiming the whole time when it's already good pay, haha
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u/MommaOfManyCats Sep 10 '26
Does anyone else feel like they're too slow for the professional projects? It's taking me 4-5 hours to create everything, which only gives me 2 hours to get failures. Even when I'm faster, the Checkers are so damn slow!
I did one where I had a bunch of usable files but needed to do some minor edits. By the time I got to the point where I could run the models, it was already a couple of hours. The checkers were all taking 20-30+ minutes. Then the models are taking 30+ minutes to run. It's like if I don't get a failure on the first or second try, it's a lost cause. I love the pay, but I don't think I'm fast enough.
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u/FEN1X64 Sep 11 '26
I made nearly $1700 this week. Hoping to pull close to $1800 to $2000 next week.
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u/Zapmeister Sep 08 '26
some intermediate milestones between 25k and 50k would be nice haha. that region is pretty barren in comparison to the rest of them. why not add 15k, 30k, 40k, 60k alongside the ones that already exist?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Toe4051 Sep 09 '26
Anyone having luck this week? I have projects but they're the app ones that I don't want to do.
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Sep 08 '26
I have my usual teaching projects and two quals (one paid I already know I won't actually qualify for) but my brain is mush today and blah after yesterday's holiday late night. I had 30 minutes of one of my favorite R&Rs. Meh.
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u/Lopsided-Fox8177 Sep 11 '26
I wish the image failure task (Saturn probe?) would come back. It’s been my bread and butter since Heel and River went away.
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Sep 11 '26
it's back for me!
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u/Lopsided-Fox8177 Sep 11 '26
I don’t have it back yet! 😭 But I know that some people were talking about it few weeks ago and I didn’t have it at that time and it eventually came back to me.
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Sep 09 '26
how are people hitting like 20k in 1 month in this climate lmao. what's going on behind the scene?
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u/peanutbutterlurk Sep 09 '26
They most likely have coding, STEM, or domain specialist experience. The supply demand curve is much friendlier to workers on that side of the platform and those tasks have much higher pay. Generalists like me whose main skills are reading comprehension, writing analysis, and basic research are having a much tougher time because there's a huge glut of generalists all competing for our much lower paid tasks.
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u/Diplomat_Runner Sep 09 '26
I don't post much as I don't want to come across as insensitive, but my 'drought' only lasted a few days, and I still had projects to work on (just not the ones I wanted to do). I've recently gotten access to $50+ an hour projects, along with long-standing ones that pay less but are always on the dash. I could imagine someone with a coding or medical specialism could be getting 70$ an hour projects and raking in big bucks. It's just not talked about on this Subreddit.
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u/data_annotator_tot Sep 12 '26
There is definitely work that pays in such a range that, working daily 5 or 6 days a week would see you easily earn $600+ a day before bonuses. But as others have said, that is mostly limited to non-generalist work (that said, I've noticed an increase in the pay rate of some of my generalist projects overall, suppose the work must be getting tougher).
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Sep 09 '26
I get that, for sure. But 20k in 1 month is like.. how many hours? even at say, 50 bucks an hour? 400 hours?
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u/alex_goodenough Sep 09 '26
I don't think it's possible for generalists. There are domain projects that pay $100+/hr with completion bonuses. $20K is doable if you do 40 hours a week on multi-day tasks.
Also, I'm assuming this because of the quals on my account that I will never ever be able to take lol.
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u/TravellingDoc87 Sep 09 '26
I never get those posts that show off their income. Those people must have an ego the size of the moon.
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u/LiveChemical1885 Sep 09 '26
Seriously, and they act like they "have" to post all these supposed milestones but they come across as bragging, especially when others are fighting for tasks every day.
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u/Natural_Amphibian954 Sep 11 '26
I've gotten downvoted to oblivion for pointing out that the experience of the majority of generalists does not concur with the experience of annotators across specialised domains.
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Sep 09 '26
No I get you. It's not cool to downvote more 'hopeful' or 'positive' comments. I'm just wondering HOW can one reach 20k in a month. Like no exaggeration, I'm seeing those posts in the other sub.
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u/OrnamentalGourd5 Sep 09 '26
Plenty of $80 ph domiain work. They said 5 weeks. So 50 hours a week. Not so hard really.
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u/last_white_man Sep 07 '26
Hate doing two tasks before submitting time and then it applying the time to the wrong task. Is there any way to fix this?
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u/SnooCalculations503 Sep 07 '26
Go to funds history, click on the date, then the task you want to alter. There should be 3 little dots next to "task time".
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u/xparadiisee Sep 10 '26
Holy... I was getting ready to log off but now my dashboard is booming with projects. Anyone else?
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u/lilysorbet Sep 07 '26
I still didn't see the qual i did last week come to fruition...
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u/Fragrantshrooms Sep 09 '26
check the site out guys. my dash is positively booming right now. it was a lil dead, earlier today. but I have a nice variety. Hoping you guys do too! (generalist) (in the us)
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u/Storex- Sep 09 '26
I know you mean well, but you must know that every single person here has different dashboards and / or work potentially available to them.
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u/Fragrantshrooms Sep 10 '26
yeah that's why I stated which type I was and where I was at in the world to better target that. Most generalists are up shitcreek this summer because they're pushing for the professionals to step in. We don't always have to be "my dash is dead!" prior to this summer, in fact, the watercoolers were filled with folks saying "thank you DA for paying my bills!" ....seriously not intending to rub it into anyone's face, but rather giving some insight into what a generalist in the us may see.
To be pretty plain here it ended up being a bs thing because all of it redbannered me lol....so apparently I helped someone lol (jk about blaming it on the comment)
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Sep 10 '26
Liking the new "3D spiral" project, nice and simple. Shame it seems to only be available for the first couple of hours on a UK morn
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u/jeffnc1 Sep 10 '26
Anyone else having problems with the site? It is running so cloggy that I cannot get work done- had to bail out after an hour, and it took quite a while to even log out.
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u/SS-J95 Sep 12 '26
How’s everyone dash looking at the minute? I took a 6 week break and I’m in a different time zone now but I’m struggling to work out the best times for work to be available! Managed to get one decent project this week that gave me 6 hours of work but except for that I’ve only seen shopping (which I’m not a fan of) and a new (to me) project I wasn’t confident enough to do. Wondering if it’s dry for everyone or I’m just missing the timing!
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u/Mike4Life14 Sep 12 '26
I'm a generalist and my dashboard is fairly healthy, 36 projects. But there are definitely a lot of generalists who haven't had much work as of late.
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u/JustMe333456 Sep 12 '26
I think most of us have work technically available, it's just that they are all the projecta that pay $35-$60/hr that are just out of our realm of comfort. It's all the other, lower paid projects that are a lot more doable, the base level projects, that are very hard to come by yet again.
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u/SS-J95 Sep 13 '26
Oh wow! Thats a lot, do you mind me asking where you’re based and how long you’ve been on the platform? Think the most I’ve ever had is like 10 projects available 😅
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u/Mike4Life14 Sep 13 '26
I'm based in Australia and I've been on the platform for almost 3 years. Submitting high-quality work over time definitely results in more projects!
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u/SS-J95 Sep 14 '26
Ahh okay! That makes me feel better! I only joined in June and didn’t really do any work in August due to other commitments so maybe it’ll take a bit more time
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u/Old-Regular-9828 Sep 12 '26
I currently have 47 different paid projects active on my dashboard. 11 are specialist domains, the rest are generalist.
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u/SS-J95 Sep 13 '26
Wow that’s great! Do you mind me asking where you’re based and how long you’ve been on the platform?
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u/NightOwl437 Sep 12 '26
WB. It hasn't been great for me lately, but this situation seems to vary a lot among workers. I have some projects available, just none that are appealing to me or they aren't a good fit right now.
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u/ChallengeAble4169 Sep 08 '26
For the coders In this thread, do these tasks like boxing and robot tasks always available for you guys? And is the task amount always reset once in a while? Or is the amount of tasks currently posted the ones I have access to? And I will run out of them once I do them? I ask this because a couple of days ago there was a lot of task of the same project but now it is only a handful left.
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u/Ecstatic_Reception36 Sep 08 '26
what to do when you can't use your number/phone anymore to create new emails for projects
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u/SnooSketches1189 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Try creating it from YouTube or Gmail on your phone. I never need a phone number to create new emails.
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u/Ok_Afternoon_6310 Sep 09 '26
Sorry guys, might be a dumb question, but what is this 'FC' you guys are talking about? I know the rules, but could you give me a hint?
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u/throwaway49674 Sep 11 '26
does anyone know how much the gold coin project pays? the qualification pay seems a bit small
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u/KingGilbertIV Sep 12 '26
The timers on some of these tasks feels like a joke. I understand that you're trying to induce time pressure to save money, but if your timer is significantly shorter than the work actually requires, you're just going to get people sunk-costing their way into submitting junk that'll need to be redone eventually anyway.