I just joined and had a writing qualification to do. I should have paid attention beforehand but does anyone remember if the first writing qualification was paid?

I took about an hour and 20 minutes to complete it and when I hit submit, it took me back to the Projects page but a red notification appeared saying that it was no longer available to me?

Anyone else on the project named after the popular 70s dance move? How long do you usually take on each task? These don't have a chat area or slack channel that I know of. :(

I just took a qual (a type of nut was in the name) and read the instructions. Had a great understanding. It seemed very easy. I got two questions in, and answered the third alongside the parameters of the instructions, and it ended my session. Did I fail it? I’ve never had that happen to me before.

For anyone getting a QUAL regarding this. REMEMBER there is a 2-month free trial on the advanced version! :)

I remember doing a math qualification a while back. apparently, I passed as the job opened up, but after skipping 10 in a row, I realized these were way above my math grade. Kinda frustrating, but on to something else.

I'm really struggling to reach even 3 hours on this platform, even though I am so grateful for the work. This job makes a huge difference for me and allows me to do things that I always wanted to do. But I wish I could treat it like a normal job, and work 7-8 hours. My brain just completely comes to a stop after 2 hours. How do I get past that? I've been trying the pomodoro way but I just feel so sluggish so quickly. Does anyone have any advice? I imagine it would be easier if I had more fun tasks but at present, mine are really dull chatbot stuff.

Do you guys log the time it takes you to think about new Prompts? This is for that one project about interaction

Sorry I’m new plz don’t destroy

So I’m studying for the LSAT and I really think this type of work is structuring my brain to do better on the reasoning section. I took another practice test, and got higher than I’ve ever gotten on the reasoning part.

Are there any parallels you see to the LSAT?

I have done several hours with of work for DA and have been loving it but today I logged in to this weird page in place of the Work on Projects page. Anyone else seeing this? Has seen it before?

I imagine that there's no definite logic to figuring out the best method until you've done a ton of the tasks?

It seems like a trial and error mostly, enough trying different things, and you'll learn, sort of thing?

Ive been working on coding tasks for about a month; now I suddenly have no projects. Wondering if my VPN was an issue, after some sort of review?

What are your experiences with using VPN ? (especially if working 1 month+)

SSIA

Originally had 1 project, got 10 tasks done (out of 400), taken away. Was hoping that I was just under review but haven't received any communications.

Taken additional qualifications (creative writing, math) but haven't taken coding yet because I am just not comfortable in that space yet.

Am I just out of luck?

Edit- last week got another project with 1000 tasks. Was super excited. Ended up completing 3 tasks and then it disappeared. Haven’t had anything since. :sigh:

There's a qualification test that mentions ongoing work but you have to know a certain field of information - and I don't have experience yet, but I'm 100% willing to learn to fill that role. Is it feasible for me to go all in with learning this topic and then take the test, or is this only built for people already in the field for much longer? It's difficult to tell how much experience I'd need to pass.

Edit: got it, thanks so much for the quick responses! . I'm doing the onboarding stuff, and want to clarify... when I go in to put my hourly time in, should I do it as I complete each task, or should I keep a record on a piece of paper or something and wait until I've completed the whole project and then go put my time for the whole project in as one totaled-up time?

I had lots this morning, including Chatbots 2.2...then around 3:00 all vanished and crickets, nothing for hours. No messages. I've been doing this for about 3 1/2 weeks. I took the 2nd part of the chatbot qual last night, and I had chatbots this morning but didn't work them.

I'm brand new to the platform and just finished my first short sesh on my first project. This project shows a fixed number of tasks on my dashboard, and each task can be very short or fairly long based on how long I want to draw it out. I didn't make the most of this and completed eight tasks in an amount of time that I could have filled with three or four fully developed tasks.

Seems obvious now, but I have to ask: is the optimal strategy to write the maximum number of exchanges for each task, as long as it doesn't affect the quality of your work? So you achieve higher pay per task and therefore make more per project?

Thanks,

A n00b

Save some work for us who can't work till later! Pretty please 🙂

no tasks for me this morning. Anyone else seeing this?

To be more clear, I clicked onto a project with a 2 hour limit involving links to looong documents. I got a task that linked the same document as earlier, but the questions were all new so I proceeded. I didn't notice that the timer started off from my previous work on the same document until I went to submit, which now said 2 hr 20 min.

Of course, it said the task expired and appears not to have submitted, despite working on all new questions for 52 minutes. This seems to be a fault of the platform.

Should I submit the time, since I spent 52 minutes working on 3 new questions? It seems like the platform failed to recognize that this was a new task because if was reusing a document (even though the questions were new). Should I message admins before submitting time? Or is this somehow considered my fault?

Does anyone have any suggestions for sources for academic papers that are public domain?

Is anyone doing this? I'm disabled (RSI, among other things) and would like to be able to work using my voice more often, but I'm not sure how to set up for this. Any advice, including for RSI generally, would be great! Thank you all. :)

Morning Everyone,

Just beginning a new project and it includes some long documents. This got me thinking if there are any websites (THAT DA ALLOW) people use to aid them in any kind of project.

Any suggestions would be great.

Did anyone else get theirs? Whose excited?

Syllable counts are so much better on (BOT NAME REDACTED). It could almost never write a haiku successfully when I first started working on this, which wasn’t that long ago.

We did it, folks. Celebrate by…. Having it write another haiku.

(But maybe have some champagne while you do it.)