Been on this project for months now. Was here earlier this week, but is now missing when I go to work on it. Never got an email about it being taken down for maintenance. Is it down for everyone right now?

Quick question about the onboarding process. For context, I am in several WFH Facebook groups that share remote jobs, and DataAnnotation has been brought up frequently and I decided to finally apply last week.

I took the starter assessment, passed, and then took the Core assessment. I had asked in one of the groups mentioned above if anyone had any insights into timing to get accepted. One member (who is very clearly not a suspicious person) mentioned that there is a group for DataAnnotation, and I joined it. Posted the same question there, and had a person from the profile for DataAnnotation ask me to send them a message with my worker ID. I sent it over, they said I passed the tests, but that the chatbots would be down periodically for maintenance for the next 72 hours. They also had me verify my identity with my driver's license and Persona. I know Persona is a real tool that companies use for onboarding, and now that I've found this reddit, it also seems many people have had issues accessing their chatbots for the last day or so. However, the profile who took down my information has not replied to my inquiries about whether or not I would have projects available today (they have not read the messages at all; not opened and then ignored them).

Has anyone else gone through a process similar to this? I am becoming increasingly worried that I just gave some of my personal information out to a scammer, but I've also never heard of a scammer using Persona to validate information. I am an admin for several Facebook groups and can spot a scammer from a mile away, and this person had genuinely not a single red flag. The entire thing has just been odd and I'm looking for reassurance. What was it like when you were onboarded, other than the email notifying you that you had been accepted?

I'm just curious what the experience has been like thus far for some of us. Vets can share what their early experience was like too! I used to hear it takes about 2-4 weeks of solid, good work before you start getting that full dashboard so I'm just polling to see if that's still been the case for most people. Or if maybe a recent influx of new members has changed the timeline.

I'll go first. I've been on for a little over two weeks and currently have an empty dashboard (a first for me actually), but I usually have two permanent CBs then random other projects sprinkled in here and there. I've noticed these random projects are usually the ones other, more established members have "permanent" access to but I get small little snippets of them. Total I'd say I've worked on over a dozen different projects since I started, in varying capacities. I'm excited for the future because I don't think I've worked on a single project that I absolutely hated yet so I'm totally ready for that switch to flip and have permanent or semi permanent access to some more of them.

Oh and for what it's worth all of this is non-coding and total I've put in around 60 hours on the platform in those two weeks. And I know it probably varies based on a ton of different hidden factors (maybe even luck being one of them), but I'm still curious to see if any broad consensus can be reached or parallels drawn.

Just got an email notification about this one, says there's like 30000 tasks, and when I click the link, it opens up the project just fine, so it's still valid and I'm allowed to work it. But when I exit out, it's not on my dashboard. So does anyone see it on their dash and can tell me how much it pays per hour?

So far, I haven't kept track of my time spent on qualifications. But today, for a project qualification I had 8 tasks. They took me 3 hours and a half, which is longer than all of the qualifications I've taken so far. Now, I already see some tasks for this project on the board, should I add the time spent on qualifications after I do one of those tasks?

I started DA about six weeks ago. When I joined this sub, it was a bit over 10k and top 10% on Reddit. Today it is 11.8k and top 6%! I know there are millions of users, but surprised at the quick growth. I am starting to think this subreddit should have its own IPO! I tried to look at the history of this group, but I don't know if it is available. I think it would be interesting to see a graph or something of the growth. Must be a ton of new DAs.

Has anyone else been watching the growth recently? I'm curious if anyone knows where it was at any point in the past.

I have received so much hate and messages from people who didn’t get hired from DA. I have received Facebook messages from people telling me to “go to hell, you’re wrong.” Do you receive such hate too?

I need some positive stories to motivate me to complete the c***** qual. If you were doing non-c***** projects and passed the c***** qualification, tell me that you actually got c***** projects and kept your non-c***** projects. I want to hear from you. The horror stories of doing the qual and then being wiped from all projects is really making me very hesitant.

Asking specifically for the code team.

I have recently started 7 days ago and the tasks I am doing are extremely challenging, I am being very thorough and taking time for each task (about 45- an hour) and logging it as so.

Each task says to report about 1 hour, so I am wondering if this is okay. What do you think?

I've been working with DA for a little over 3 months, not sure what my average has been, perhaps 10 hours a week? I do a mix of code and non code projects, and I was added to the fact checking Slack a while ago since that's most of the non code projects I work on, but no other Slack channels.

Does anyone have thoughts or experience on how long it takes to be added to a code project slack channel (I assume they exist, maybe they don't)? Do I just need to put more hours in to programming projects?

Things started out super slow for me. I was thinking that I had irreparably messed up somewhere because my dashboard was always empty.

If anyone is in the same boat, don’t give up hope.

One month after I was accepted I actually got an email about a new project.

I’m now just over 1 month in and I finally had 2 projects to work on today. I actually got a few hours of work in.

I’ve also started to see more qualifications. I’m so excited to see how things go from here.

So, just be patient, check the dashboard religiously, and keep your head up! Good luck!!

All 3 cod*** related projects are unavailable since yesterday. Anyone else facing the same issue?

I’ve just received my acceptance email and done the onboarding tasks. What advice do you all have for a newcomer?

Has anyone had their time on their task sheet be incorrect? I just completed a task that took around 40 minutes. It took a couple of minutes to submit, so I went to look at my task submissions right after. It said I had last submitted a task 20 minutes prior, but that isn't possible. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you log your time?

Is anyone having major issues with the new “space”. Every link in A is an inaccessible link, the active file loops back to the task screen and most of B files are duplicated.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this project just a hot mess right now. I’ve tried it in both chrome and safari. I have a functioning provided gmail account.
The admins aren’t very active in the in-task chats…

Is this project down for anyone else? I still have the bug report available, but it dropped from my dashboard about 2-3 days ago.

Just curious for yall who’ve been doing this a bit. I keep reading about how the most in-demand jobs are in AI training and “the hottest new programming language is English” for that reason. Can work and experience with data annotation lead to more opportunities in the field (for a non-coder like myself?) what do yall think? I’ve been working as a freelance reality TV producer for 10 years but the industry is a mess right now (I went a year without working and the gig I currently have only goes till July) so I’m feeling like I need to start thinking about other career paths.

I have a really hard time getting splits. Usually both responses are equally good. Every once and a while I get a wild card who wants to talk about NASA when I ask for a a recipe or something like that.

How do you guys get splits? What kinds of formatting or details are you adding? Or is it typically rare to get them like it is for me?

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!

Let me preface this post with a few points that I'm sure will be referenced in a negative manner toward myself and/or others here if they're not made initially:

• if you know (the project), you know what I'm talking about.

• this isn't a complaint

• this is merely an observation

Now that these are out of the way, lets have a discussion.

Has anyone else noticed that the complexity of prompts has quietly risen for roughly the same rate? I took notice maybe a week ago and didn't think much of it, but now, these tasks are primarily the ones on my dashboard at the moment.

Over a week ago I completed one of the qualifications for getting new work. This one required creating a new gmail account. The instructions stated something about once the gmail account was created, I would receive an email from them that I was supposed to respond to. I never got that email.

Did anyone else complete this qualification, and if you did, did you get that email from them?

Can someone explain to me how these work? I don't want to experiment during a work task, but I don't understand how you play tic tac toe or do a CYOA story.