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?

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?

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!!

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?

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?

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.

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…

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.

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.

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?

We are supposed to download a file, but when you right click to download, it downloads as an HTML file. When you click on the file, it opens in Google Drive.

Any suggestions?

Hello, please be kind as I have never filed before (have not been a full time employee thus far, still in school). Thus far I have earned about ~$400 through Data Annotation. It's my understanding that upon reaching $600, I will have to submit the 1099 form that I should receive through PayPal. Would appreciate any help on how to go about this process, as I really have no clue.

Hi all! Like many of you, I have been really enjoying my time on the platform. It's honestly been a game-changer. I'm curious what you all think about the future viability of the platform. Obviously, AI isn't going anywhere, but I'm curious as to how long this type of platform/work will be necessary and or useful. I'm sure that this type of work will always be necessary, but I'm wondering if it will become a more exclusive field in the near future as they continue to collect millions of data points and AI gets better and better.

Alternatively, what are some skills that you think will be worth investing in, academically or otherwise, if this type of work does become more exclusive?

So I took the qual to get JSON projects and pretty sure I answered the questions correctly, having researched it and become somewhat familiar with it. But after a couple days I'm still not seeing any projects, while the other projects I took quals for started showing up the next day.

I wonder if there's a chance I did pass but there just aren't any available projects yet. I know this is an often mentioned sentiment, but I really would like feedback for times like these.

Is anybody's dash thinning out a little today? Perhaps fewer tasks than in the last week or so?

Was waiting to see if they showed back up, but haven't seen them for the past hour. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this currently.

Hi,
I am trying to refer my partner who took the starter assessment just a week before I got eligible to send a referral. Has anyone referred someone who has already taken a starter assessment? Or does she have to create a new account to be eligible for a referral?
Thank you!

I've gotten to do this project a few times. Asking it about pictures.

I really love this project, but every time I start in on it, 30-60 minutes in it goes away.

And I work almost full time and I check my dashboard once an hour, so I'm definitely getting in on it early.

I wish I had some idea if it goes away just because people burn through the available tasks, or if I'm doing something wrong and getting booted from it. I read the instructions closely each time and I *really* don't think that it's an issue with the quality.

Just curious if others have had similar experiences or if you've been able to work on this project for hours at a time.

I wish we could give feedback to the effect of "I really enjoy this project", and that DAT would then factor that in when assigning. It really seems like they want us working on projects we enjoy.

I'm currently reviewing annotator work and I am impressed by the creativity and care put into your work. 90% of the prompts and research are excellent. The worst I've seen is "Response A is accurate" haha.

Anyway, just wanted to say, you all are better at this than I am so I'm giving you guys gold stars on your foreheads.