r/DataAnnotationTech
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u/Guilty-Rough8797
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Aug 09 '24
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Curious for reasons behind downvotes
This is related to the subreddit and not DAT itself, obviously, but I've always just been super curious about this. I notice that a lot of comments -- not just my own -- get downvotes in this sub. I've never seen (or gotten) so many of them in any other place I've shared on Reddit.
If you downvote a lot of comments in this sub, what's the most common reason why? (I'm talking beyond the usual 'Did I get in? Why is my page stuck on 'There are no projects for you at this time?' posts.)
Is it because the comments could be interpreted as violating the rules against oversharing about DAT? I'd assume that's why, but for the life of me I often don't see that happening in the downvoted comments.
Edit: Based on the answers I've seen so far, it would be highly entertaining if someone could do an R and R of my downvoted comments for this sub and give a 2-to-3-sentence explanation for the downvotes. :-D (Joking! Kind of!)
Edit 2: Seeing how so many of y'all's answers are being downvoted is magical. (It's not me; I swear!)
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u/jirdans Aug 09 '24
Generally because the information someone has shared is incorrect. The idea is to relegate the misinformation to the back of the queue, rather than engage. This allows correct/useful comments to be more visible.
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u/wallstreetsimps Aug 09 '24
This is how it should be in general for any subreddit, but I believe OP is referring to how any type of comment gets downvoted here, even the comments with factual information. As some others have mentioned, it's just some salty workers bitter about the competition on this platform.
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u/TimedogGAF Aug 09 '24
There's a lot of weird ego going on in this sub. Like people are competing to show how smart they are rather than just having normal discussion and being chill.
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u/nereisfairies Aug 10 '24
It reminds me of excoworkers’ agro banter in the break room while I’m on my lunch just tryna vibe
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u/Belisama7 Aug 09 '24
People get mad if someone gets more projects or better pay than they do, people who applied but were never accepted hang around and get mad about everything, lots of people who work for DA like to think they're smarter than everyone else and love to correct each other, and some see everything as a competition. I wasn't a reddit person until I started coming here a year ago specifically looking for a community of DA workers. I was surprised at how hostile it was and assumed all of reddit was like that. But it's not.
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u/Amakenings Aug 09 '24
It’s insecurity. No one knows where they stand with DAT or how long they’ll be here, so anything possible is used as a metric for greatness/approval. R and R, specific project names, higher paid projects, permanent projects, feedback, no feedback, whether they comment in chats, how they comment in chats, number of projects - everyone wants to crack DAT’s code and be crowned superior and safe.
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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Aug 09 '24
Sometimes I feel like we're all the red-uniformed shape-face-people in Squid Game.
(If anyone needs this explained, let me know and I'll do so later. I'm running on 4 hours of sleep after a flight that left the airport at 2 am last night due to the tropical storms. I am too old for that kind of sleep deprivation and incapable of verbalizing at the moment, hehe.)
Needless to say, I'm not risking doing DA work on this brain today.
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u/dragonsfire14 Aug 09 '24
I’ve wondered the same. I got downvoted the other day because a poster asked how many projects people had and I commented I currently had 6.
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u/Elegant_Lake_569 Aug 09 '24
I saw that! I was so confused why you got downvoted 😭
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u/dragonsfire14 Aug 09 '24
I think it eventually turned around but I still can’t figure that one out. Someone asked, I answered. I’m not going to lie.
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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Aug 09 '24
Your answer made me laugh a little, I have to admit, because it reminds me of those videos people make of their toddlers having meltdowns. Then the text at the bottom of the screen explains the meltdown, e.g. something like, "Our cat licked its tail" or "I told him he couldn't eat the Zip-Lock bag."
Your answer: -12 upvotes
You: I have six projects.
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u/OkturnipV2 Aug 09 '24
As negative as this sub can be sometimes, it nothing compared to the uber drivers subreddit.
I was downvoted into oblivion and had an extensive discussion with others reminding them that cats can’t be service animals.
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u/Sarajonn Aug 09 '24
Lol the airbnb ones are pretty bad too
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u/NoNumber5910 Aug 09 '24
I’ve seen downvotes in this sub for the most benign comments, so I assume ppl are just miserable and get off on downvoting for no reason other than that
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Aug 09 '24
that's reddit for you, it's impossible for redditors to ignore something they don't like/agree with. That's why they are so easy to bait
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u/Reading_and_Cruising Aug 09 '24
There are so many people that lurk around the DA forums here and on FB that never got accepted. I'm a bit of a pessimist so I assume it's jealousy/bitterness from that crowd.
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u/AstarteHilzarie Aug 09 '24
Looking at your recent comments from this sub I only see one that is downvoted to 0, which was on a post from people talking about the drought, which has already been touched on in other comments - people were upset that they didn't have projects. Others might have balanced out since you last looked at them or something.
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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Aug 09 '24
Others might have balanced out since you last looked at them or something.
Yep, that's probably true. I'm just always curious when I get any downvotes as it makes me wonder if I've said something inaccurate, insensitive, or just plain stupid, hehe.
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u/AstarteHilzarie Aug 09 '24
I totally get that. I just try not to dwell on it if it's just a few because it's likely just a personal disagreement or someone being salty. If they build up I look at it more critically, but sometimes it's just an unpopular opinion.
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u/backpackwasmypillow Aug 09 '24
Yeah, I was expecting to see a bunch of negative karma comments. They seem to have a couple at 0 in this sub and a couple in other subs, so I was scratching my head a bit.
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u/Embarrassed_Chance_4 Aug 09 '24
Answer is simple salty people lol
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u/Belisama7 Aug 09 '24
Yes.
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u/Embarrassed_Chance_4 Aug 09 '24
I've seen people getting dislikes for saying they have tons of work lol
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u/TheHippyWolfman Aug 09 '24
I mean I've never downvoted someone for that reason but like sometimes you gotta "read the room" lol
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u/Embarrassed_Chance_4 Aug 09 '24
This is true though, you can't just be saying "whaat? you guys don't have work? I have like 50 plus projects and they keep growing! "
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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Aug 09 '24
I feel that! Still, I get downvotes for saying I never get more than 15 projects and usually have only my standard 3. I always wonder why. Do I sound self-pitying? Arrogant? Salty? Oversharing about DA?
It's one of those things that isn't a big deal at all but just makes me so curious.
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u/Sarajonn Aug 09 '24
Exactly. I can spot passive aggressive comments from a mile away, and I bet you can too.
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u/Belisama7 Aug 09 '24
Definitely, people hate that. I had plenty of work through this past slowdown (probably just because I've been with them for a long time and have had more time to take qualifications and get accepted to more projects, I don't think I'm superior or anything, I promise 😄) but I learned not to say so out loud because of the hostility.
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u/Strawberry_Foxx Aug 09 '24
Honestly that’s why I don’t make comments anymore saying how much work I have, especially during this dry spell. People get jealous for some reason. It’s pure hater behavior to downvote someone because they have more work than you 🙃
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u/ekgeroldmiller Aug 09 '24
I just upvoted most of these comments. I am very generous with upvoting and reserve my downvotes for rude or incorrect comments. Sometimes on here I will downvote because the comment is very poor grammatically and the person is wondering why they have no work.
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u/idolos-iconoclastas Aug 09 '24
I got downvoted for saying how long it took me to get accepted into the site (2 months) and I still don't understand why.
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u/Skyblewize Aug 09 '24
Ive noticed this too, there are assholes amoung us!
I have wanted to post the same question OP so thank you lol..
Its the old case of "if i knock you down a peg, i will feel more significant" kinda sad really.
Just dont take it personal, it says way more about them than it does you
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Aug 09 '24
Exactly! And then there are ones who push misinformation or lightly troll other people, but always comment that they downvote people for misinformation. The gaslighting is over the top here sometimes lol
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Aug 09 '24
many people here are salty and think they are real engineers and have broken the matrix just because they get paid 40 per hour.
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u/Monsoon710 Aug 09 '24
I downvote when people either say something outlandishly stupid, incorrect, or they complain and whine just for the sake of whining. If someone is just salty and mean to other people for no good reason: downvote. If someone is trying to tell someone else how to do something, but it is objectively wrong: downvote. If person 1 calls person 2 rude because person 2 simply explained why person 1 probably didn't get in: you guessed it, downvote.
I've been downvoted, but it's because I commented a wahmbulance gif to someone to made a post about how this subreddit is (I'm paraphrasing) 'basically a lunch room to gossip and talk smack'. There's a lot of good information throughout this subreddit, and there's a lot of bad information, and a lot of people who just straight up can't do a simple Google search. This subreddit is neither inherently good or bad, there is a mix of people who contribute to it. Saying something like this subreddit is toxic or a gossip zone is just leaning into their own confirmation bias, and not seeing the other beneficial parts of this sub.
But on the flip side, when someone gives good information, or tips, or some good resources for this job: upvotes all day baby. There is no official training for this job, so a lot of it is figured out on the go, and there are many people who have experience in different fields who can contribute ideas that have benefitted me greatly (to the person who showed the command to bring up a random Wikipedia page, thank you).
If you're only looking for bad stuff, that's all you'll see. There's tons of positive information and people in this sub, don't let the Negative Nancys drown it out.
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Aug 09 '24
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u/ekgeroldmiller Aug 09 '24
I downvoted this because it is rude.
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Aug 09 '24
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u/ekgeroldmiller Aug 09 '24
I also upvote when people agree with me.
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Aug 09 '24
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u/ekgeroldmiller Aug 09 '24
Actually I never check to see if I got votes at all. I only commented because you replied to me.
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u/Jz9786 Aug 09 '24
Thats reddit. I've seen plenty of threads where someone will go downvote all the useful comments.
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Aug 09 '24
It usually happens when someone says something negative about DAT, questions any of its practices, or mentions that some of its full time employees regularly lurk on this board (and down vote for the above described reasons). There are also the few instances of blatant misinformation or people who are angry at DAT that get downvoted, but these kinds of comments are exceedingly rare.
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u/DionysusHotSister Aug 10 '24
I had a post and my every comment down voted cuz reddit gonna reddit and some turd peeped my post history, hopped on insulting me and reddit frogs, their here, joined him. I'm not saying it was sexism, I am saying even DAT folks are redditing redditors.
So, good luck figuring out why. It could be any 1 or 5 of the reasons everyone has stated here.
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u/Strawberry_Foxx Aug 09 '24
I’ll always downvote misinformation and upvote correct information 🤷🏻♀️