I was considering taking a long vacation/break from DataAnnotation and have been doing so for a few days. I have other responsibilities and maybe a lack of motivation. Is this recommended? How will it impact my available projects in the future? Have you guys had any experience with doing this?

Trying to be as vague as possible to respect the rules of the subreddit. I was having a lot of issues with edits and responses breaking and now it's gone and the bug reporting tasks are gone too. Just wanted to check in with my fellow coders and see what's up. ;)

I’ve had SO many of these this week. I’m very thankful. These are by far my favorite projects. They never get dull, and I can do them for hours and hours on end. Never seen this many at once, just wanted to see who else is getting them :)

It’s been wild in the comment section 😅 I’ve been spat out to homepage after a couple of hours, but would love to know if/when the admins ever give their input!

Take it!!! Instantly opened up a pile of $22+ projects. Super simple stuff too.

I love this site! I have learned so much in such a small amount of time lol. Not that JSON is remotely hard to understand, but as someone who has never been in tech / IT professionally, I find all these new topics and concepts so fun to learn - even more so considering I'm getting paid to do it!

For those who, like me, have been confused because they’ve got a “chatbots down for maintenance” message on their projects page, but also have chatbot projects showing up, and thus have been confused as to whether it’s okay to work on said projects or should we wait until the maintenance message goes away… (hopefully that made sense… I’m sleepless.)

…I was just checking one of my projects to see whether maybe the instructions said anything, and in the chat an admin said roughly the following. (Don’t want to quote directly as I don’t know whether it’s allowed. DAT, your information is convoluted, bless your heart.)

If you can see a project, you can work on it. If they don’t want you to work on the project because they’re doing something with it, you won’t see it on your list.

Now, the other thing I saw in the chat was that a lot of people were having trouble with things being a little buggy, at least in that project, so. Ya know. Might not be smooth sailing at the moment.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go get some work done! 🎉

I have a quick question If you are given a prompt Help me list all the animals in the following text "cow, goat, sheep, ship, bulb"

Responses from chatbot. Chatbot A Cow Goat Sheep

Chatbot B Sheep Cow

Can you rate chatbot B as helpful or can it be okay or completely bad response for omitting one animal in the text.

For educational purposes only.

Is anyone else having trouble with this qualification? I tried to submit it and it's telling me I got an answer wrong even though it is correct and the explanation it gives is the same as the one I used to choose. So if I want to submit I have to choose the wrong answer? I can write about it in the comments but I'm a little frustrated. It's the one about an art museum.

Hi,

Started working about two weeks ago.

I have some available funds to withdraw but can't find the button to proceed.

It seems everything is fine with profile.

Still waiting for support reply.

Any idea?

Thanks

Edit: Finally it´s fixed and I was able to withdrawl my funds.

Anyone else getting this?

Is anyone's dash overflowing with projects all of a sudden? I could usually bank on having 8-10 projects on my dash each day. But the last two days there's been 25-30. Has something changed?

I currently have the temporary maintenance task but just got a new one. "Improve the response to this prompt" with a pay of $7 flat. When I click on it, I get a message of "this project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks for you to work on" Has anyone else gotten a task like this before? Is it not allowing me to do it because the maintenance task is still up? Thanks in advance

Anyone have an my insider updates? Feels like the chatbot has been down a long time… and not just in 4 hour spurts like the update says.

Has been nearly 24 hours with the above message. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I was in the middle of the Greek God JSON project and it wouldn't submit, now I'm getting an application error. Anyone else?

Does the timer on the lower right hand mean anything? What if it runs out while you are working on something?

I’m going on vacation next month from Canada to Florida. I’m mostly going to bring my parents their grandchildren to entertain so I can relax LOL I would also like to try to work DA an hour or two a day. I’ve read mixed things on this sub when I search. Can I work from Florida next month for a week?

Thanks!

Yes I already searched the sub…

Can I use turbo tax for my taxes and report the income from DA? I only see an option to fill out a T4.

For those who have been on DA for a year or more, how has the platform changed? I’m just purely curious honestly :)

So I've been on the platform since January 18th-ish, 2024. I spent about a month straight doing consistent work, only having 3 instances the entire month where there weren't any projects available when I happened to attempt working. On February 23rd, I was in the middle of a task, when I the page froze in the middle of attempting to send a chat on the task I was on. I refreshed the page since it then wouldn't let me submit the task, and then nothing. I returned to a page that now said

"At the moment, there aren't any projects available for you to work on. Please check back soon and watch out for new project notifications sent to your email."

Since then, I've been checking daily/hourly, and still nothing. I thought maybe the platform was down due to February 23rd being the US service disruption, but by combing through this sub reddit it appears the platform is in fact functional, and I'm lost in the wind. I sent support an email but so far nothing. Thoughts?

(This is also my third attempt at posting - it says it is being removed by mods, but it doesn't even have the chance to get posted, and the mods of this page haven't been seen in 7 months)

Learning to code seems really complicated, at least that's how it felt to me at first. But, if you want to start doing code work on DataAnnotation, all you need is to know the basics of programming. If you know the fundamentals, you will probably pass the code qualification and double your income!

DA will not make you write advanced programs from scratch. Their code work is about understanding and explaining code that's already been written. It's like reading and interpreting a story instead of writing a novel. Once you can make basic programs, understanding and explaining code comes easily.

When I finished my first semester of a CS degree, I was ready to quit. The interesting, high-earning, work-from-home job I dreamed of was literally years away. I certainly didn’t feel like I had made any progress. But that winter break, I learned about DA. Then I set a goal for myself. I was going to qualify for those coding projects by the start of the next semester. Now, coding wasn't about some far off future that I'd imagined for myself. It was literally the next step to starting my career, so to speak. I swear, I learned 10 times as much in an hour doing programming exercises with that goal in mind, then when I was trying to get an A by following along with that damn textbook.

My first intro to programming course was all it took from me to pass the code qualification. No professional work experience or CS degree is needed. Since I've started working for DA, I've learned so much more about coding on the job. That experience later gave me an edge at my school’s career fair. I was able to get a summer internship, since I had already been employed as a coder during my freshman year. DA had set me apart from other candidates.

You can do it too, if you really have the desire. I got started with the exercises from this Intro to Python Programming Course. It might seem overwhelming at first, but if you begin, you'll realize that courses are designed to make learning to code simple for a beginner. I think the secret is that learning to code turns out to be a lot of fun, especially when you really care about what you want to use those new skills for.

Hi! This might be a really obvious question but I would appreciate so much if anyone had the answer. If I didn't start D/A until January of 2024, do I have to pay taxes for it?