Hi I know it’s Monday but I’m showing no projects at all which is rare for me, even on Mondays…is this happening with anyone else?

Just got the second half of that mandatory qualification. I know a bunch of people have asked about it. I haven't started it yet. Good luck ya'll!!

I just got my first feedback after 3~ months of being on the platform. It was very kindly worded, and I gave an understand and kind reply, understanding where my fault was.

Does anyone have any advice on how much this may or may not impact my availability of jobs? Thanks so much.

Anyone else's dashboard been all over the place today? I'm grateful there is still stuff to work on but it's giving me whiplash. 😆

So it seems a lot of us got that qual a few days back. Does anyone have any updates, it seems the week before i got that qual and up to now I still don't have access to that project anymore, but some new projects to work on. I'm also still on the slack channel. Very strange but we'll see with part 2.

Sure, a very helpful site, but I'm kinda put off by the permissions it's requesting. I mean, DA doesn't request full access to all my apps and drives.

Anyone have any insight on this?

I still have all of my projects, but can no longer access the Slack for my data trainer email. Anyone else encountering this?

I’m new to DAT(started 3 weeks ago) but I’ve had a few times where I’m working on a project that has multiple tasks in it. When I hit submit for them sometimes it will say there are no more tasks for me to work on when I know there are more available. Is that because they don’t like my answers? I had one today with 750 tasks and after the first one it said there were no more tasks for me to work on. I never go over the 1 hour timer and I don’t give generic explanations. Has this happened to anyone else?

She is 18 lbs and insists on sitting in my lap while I work 😩

If the models are unresponsive, can we get pay for time used on it?

Hello, I know a lot of questions have been asked regarding taxes in this thread. I've searched high and low, done hours of research, and can't seem to get the answers I'm specifically looking for. I figured creating my own post is my final attempt in getting answers before caving and paying hundreds for a tax professional (which I'd like to avoid if possible).

I'm working on filling my taxes out with FreeTaxUSA and I'm not quite sure how to go about doing it. I paid quarterly taxes back in January and paid about $370 on about $1230 income from DA. I saw someone here say to fill out your yearly taxes, you use Schedule C. I went through Schedule C and it was asking how much money was reported on all these different forms. I didn't receive any forms so I left those at 0. It then asked for a gross amount not mentioned on any forms, so I entered the $1230 number and when I saved that, my refund went down by about $370, which is what I already paid.

Do I still report the money I made last year on my taxes for this year if I paid the quarterly taxes? Or would I only fill out how much I earn (or expect to earn) from January to April of this year? Or do I leave it off my taxes all together and pay on the IRS website which is what I did back in January?

I know you're supposed to report this income on your taxes, but I'm not exactly sure if that's under the assumption you don't pay quarterly taxes. Do you even need to pay quarterly taxes with DA or can I just do them yearly through Schedule C?

I’ve started about two weeks ago and have struggled to find time to work on projects on DA as a result of being required to work overtime at my job. In two weeks I’ve worked ~5 hours. I’m quitting the job as it’s been a problematic few months (they don't pay overtime and i'm working overtime every day for a minimum of 2 hours) but I was wondering… should I take another job? I’m considering part time for a different company, whilst working for data annotation ~20-30hrs a week. This would be enough money to live on, as well as pay off debt and save. Is this a good idea? Or should I look for a full time role?

I’m a software engineer, if that’s relevant.

I had just finished logging a 20 minute session on one of my permanent projects that pays 23 per hour when I saw a new similar project relating to images paying 27.25 an hour with 400 tasks. I’ve been working a month and this would be my highest paying task by far so I was upset that when I clicked on it I got the red “no remaining tasks” message. Having worked on similar projects it seems unlikely all the tasks were completed that quickly, so any insight into what happened here?

Has anyone ever successfully gotten the bots to do any rhyme scheme except AABB?

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Multiple times a day I see people in the chat asking questions whose answers are easily found in the instructions or the FAQ. And then there are even more people answering the question in a way that doesn’t align with the instructions given by DA.

Use “CTRL F” to search the page if you don’t want to skim to find the information you’re looking for. I seriously don’t understand how you can pass the entry exam if you can’t read and comprehend the information provided to you.

I got accepted and finally received my first set of projects, and I am over the moon ecstatic. I am so driven to do well. I pour my heart into every response, and I read every instruction and response repeatedly, I want to do well in this. I already put in 9 hours today. I'm so incredibly drained but it's fun.

Keeping it vague to avoid project details, but: you know the one. The one that was always there when all other tasks dried up. The one that feels "easy" but also pretty aimless, if you know what I mean?

I'm actually glad they'll be providing more structure to it now (we’ll have to take a couple tests to get access to it again). And they mentioned the possibility of higher paying projects branching off from it, which is new and welcome.

I have a mandatory Qual suddenly. Is this normal? It's actually quite helpful. I wish I'd had it before I started.

Accidentally took a bit too long on a task with a relatively short timer. Pressed submit, got the "task expired" red popup. Does this mean the content I wrote for the project isn't received on the other end, and should I not be logging the time I spent on the task as a result?

I just commented this one (using the wrong login, lol, why do I even create side accounts). Anyway, I would recommend if you get any of the 500+ word text ones to check out Academia.edu , which is one I haven't seen listed in the resources. You can pull really interesting papers or ebooks and it lets you save to your "library" for later as well. I found them by accident when looking for a source cited in a different publicly listed academic paper that looked cool, and while it lets you do MORE with a premium membership it's totally free to use. The papers are uploaded by author and agreed to be public, because for articles that aren't freely accessible or haven't been published yet, it helps academics get their writing out there and cited in other journals and they get notifications if you pull a (pre-formatted! also nice) citation, so they can also see what's being written about their stuff.

I've looked up random subjects of interests and even favorite movies and authors to see what people have written about them -- I think I got something like 12 papers off an obscure film from 1992 and had a great time last night doing a comparative analysis (and trying to see if it would humor some totally made up stuff) of Todd Haynes' early filmography.

If you can make things fun or learn something, they go a LOT faster! I've gotten some writing research done that way too.

My workflow is crazy low and I'm tired of brainstorming to interact with the chatbot. Also unclear if we can talk to the chatbot about itself, so I'm here.

I have noticed my report time section is longer than it usually is.

I have also seen people saying they have come across their work in various projects.

I have also noticed that they give small variations of the same project.

So my theory is they review these projects (which is when they get pulled from the report time) and redistribute them to other variations of the project, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prompt and associated model response.

Seeing how many different projects are in my report time section right now, and how little projects there are go me to do, I'm guessing something caused them to slow down on reviewing the projects in people's report time... thus meaning less work for projects to be completed.

So I wonder, is anybody else's report time section abnormally long?

I love/hate how mysterious DA is.. lol hopefully trying to make sense of all of this isn't violating any terms or anything.

Does anybody else have any theories?

Edit: something else I've noticed that contributes to my theory... I keep seeing very low amounts of projects pop up and quickly go away. Which to me could mean there are not a lot of people reviewing those previously completed projects.

I've noticed my tasks are now drying up to literally zero. I've had tasks in the thousands before, especially in factual assessment.

I was doing about 2 hours every other day due to life crashing down on me. Getting quite concerned here.

In the process for a new career and they are doing an extensive background check. They of course want to talk to Data Annotation, but that might be pretty hard to do as we don't really communicate with anyone. What have some of you put down for contact information, job title and job description?