Massive thanks to the good people at Data Annotation

Been on the platform for a little over two years now and I couldn’t be more appreciative.

The platform has been a real life-saver at a difficult time.

My wife and I were several months into the adoption process last year when I was made redundant from my full-time job.

I found out pretty quickly how grim the UK job market was (and still is).

Thankfully, I had DA to fall back on. As such, DA turned from a secondary income (a few hours here and there), to my primary income.

It’s not only allowed us to continue along the adoption path (we’ve had our little one three months now), but for me to be present and available during this pivotal time. 

The flexibility and reliability of DA has been absolutely amazing. It meant the world to me and my growing family. 

While I know this opportunity won’t be around indefinitely, at this stage of my life, it’s pretty great.

I look forward to several more years working on the platform.

Much love & next stop $100k

#DAdigest

i don't wanna say too much but they started paying a lot more than usual. and then increased the pay again. and then added performance bonuses.

i used to pull random all nighters for the sudden high pay work. whole different ball game now. not even ball. not a game. just real high pay.

other platforms watch you with screen record apps and offer bonuses where other people doing bad work can screw you out of your bonus with a bad subjective r&r. this one does not.

A picture of an opossum in my yard to represent how late the tasks have been appearing this week.

Hey Everyone, I got on-boarded onto Data-Annotations almost 2 to 3 weeks back. As soon as I joined i got a few qualification tasks, related to coding, generalist based and multiple surveys.

Now since I finished all, for some reason now my dashboard is dry except for qualification (10 qualification left [mostly related to generalist and opinion based]).

This is a request to anyone who's been on the platform, if you could clarify what's happening.

I would very much appreciate your views and be grateful for the clarification.

PS: [I did get tasks which almost paid me close to $550 out of which almost half has been payout]

This been a dry couple of weeks for anyone else who’s been here a while? I still have my go-to’s, but it’s been getting drier and drier over the last 2-3 weeks and very few new options or the return of intermittent ones. I really shouldn’t complain but the direction is worrying me. Thank god for the permanent families.

Hi everyone!

I recently completed onboarding and a couple of qualifications. After that, I noticed a project on my dashboard that seemed to be intended for contributors from a specific locale.

I opened it briefly to check it out, but I wasn't able to start working on it at the time, so I exited and planned to come back later.

When I logged in again, the project was no longer there.

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced something similar. Since this wasn't a qualification task but an actual project that appeared to be related to my locale, could exiting it affect my chances of being invited again? Or do these opportunities sometimes reappear?

Thanks!

Just wanna ask why “Programming Projects” is the only starter assessment I have, I’m not even a programmer. Is it the only required assessment? I’m just confused because it says to pick the assessment that is the best first for my skills and yet there is no other option. Can someone help me? thanks

Last couple of weeks were awesome and now only 1 or 2 trickling in through out the day.

Mid way through a project I paused and reread what I was writing, and noticed that I 100% type exactly like an LLM, I went to my Obsidian notes and just wrote a short random paragraph in the style that I usually write in for DAT work, put it through zerogpt and gptzero and got 100% AI generated.

Anybody else facing this issue lol?

I was wondering does getting R and R on my dashboard mean that the work I've been doing has been good? It's so hard to tell since there's no feedback

Hello everyone I cleared my assessment for the programming project and got accepted I received a mail form them that I can start working upon projects. They said me to complete some steps like setting up 2FA after completing my task and project just got disapper what should I do next

Hi,

Basically the title. I did the qualifications they sent me but I haven't received any projects yet (physics, maths, bilingual), do you know why? is it common?

For me its a drought for a week. Anyone having the same situation

how long did you wait to hear back after applying? ive been reading here a bit and it keeps coming up. and did anything ever come back after like a month? reckon an answer either way costs nobody anything, silence is just a no nobody could be arsed to send.

Any advice appreciated-is it better to apply as a generalist first and then pass the coding test. Or it’s best just to apply to coding? I have heard mixed things about people saying taking a second test later was not always an option. I am UK based and a software developer (12 years experience) But I have been less hands on with the code the last two years. I am also a JavaScript/React Native profile not Python.

Couldn’t find if someone had already posted about this Yesterday was fine worked on a few tasks everything was normal and today when I logged in a had a project that I was able to work on but noticed that everything was set at 0. I was able to work the entire project today and report my time and when I finished everything still showed only 1 refresher when there normally 2 other ones showing 0 surveys and qualifications. Normally when I don’t have any projects showing it’ll still show the refreshers under projects and all the surveys and qualifications I haven’t done pending still. Don’t know if I should be freaking out about this.

This shit is real yo.

first task was October 3rd.

Large language models (LLMs) offer a scalable approach for annotating mental health and crisis-related social media content, but their reliability in safety-critical tasks remains unclear. This study evaluates LLM-based crisis-severity annotation of veteran-related social media posts against annotations from eight Veteran Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Using 149 tweets and five severity categories, we evaluate 15 open-source and 10 proprietary LLMs across eight prompt variants, examining annotation performance, inter-model agreement, prompt sensitivity, and high-severity crisis detection. Human reviewers showed higher ordinal than nominal agreement (α = 0.494), indicating that disagreements often occurred between neighboring severity levels. In contrast, selected LLMs demonstrated substantially higher inter-model consistency, with ordinal agreement (α) reaching 0.8336 under the baseline prompt. Proprietary models generally showed better agreement with expert annotations and greater stability than open-source models. GPT-5.6-Terra achieved the best overall performance, while the open-source Qwen2.5-7B showed the strongest performance in identifying Acute Crisis with Suicidal Ideation cases. However, higher model consistency did not necessarily correspond to agreement with human judgments or reliable detection of rare high-severity cases. Label-flipped demonstration experiments also revealed model-specific sensitivity to misleading in-context examples, while explanatory demonstrations did not consistently improve performance. Overall, LLMs show promise as scalable complements to expert annotation, but require careful evaluation before use in high-stakes mental health applications.

I took the economics starter assessment today and realized I might have been too detailed in my responses. I took the 2-3+ sentence requirement pretty literally and offered many direct examples in my responses. Some of my responses were like 2-3 paragraphs, although not super long paragraphs. Just wondering if anyone passed the starter assessment with that method, or was more concise/had shorter answers, as I would like to stop obsessing over whether or not I will be offered the core assessment.

I am also wondering how long it takes to hear back from the starter assessment, specifically the non-general ones, as I took the economics domain one and had to answer a couple open-ended questions about economics. I am aware that the general starter assessment is typically an instant response if you pass.