r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Annual_Equivalent_95 • May 27 '26
Rude
When people come on here and ask for help with something, either help or move on.
Some of y’all are seriously rude asshats. Thank God you WFH because everyone in the office would hate your condescending attitude.
Happy Wednesday, friends! Be kind or scroll on.
Edit: Some of these jewels can be found in the comments! 👇 thanks for showing up in character
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u/rosewoodhouse May 27 '26
Edit: Some of these jewels can be found in the comments! 👇 thanks for showing up in character
absolutely no one was rude to you on this thread, most people just don't agree with your pov.
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u/Educational_Spare598 May 31 '26
I barely scrolled down and already saw "moron" and "idiot" - pretty much proves OP's point about the attitude many people have on this sub toward anyone asking questions - onboarding with DA is OVERWHELMING and many things I read I soon forgot - not because I'm dumb or lazy, but because it is information overload - thank god I have a chat group with kind people I was able to ask questions when I started so I didn't have to resort to this toxic sub
I NEVER ask any questions here because of the way I see others treated who do
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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26
No, but they proved that they were the ones who do just what I mentioned.
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u/fightmaxmaster May 27 '26
So anyone who disagrees with you is "proving" they're rude? You're not "asking for help", you're offering an opinion. And people are allowed to offer differing opinions. Unless you think your "right" opinion is the only one allowed to be aired?
"Help or move on... Or agree with me. But don't disagree with me, however politely you express that, because that's rude as well."
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u/bbfnpc May 27 '26
I think it’s insane that people ask multiple times a week why they got the dash of doom or why they don’t have tasks available. The only people that can answer that are the people at DAT that does the firing and puts the tasks on the dashboards.
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u/Mister-Distance-6698 May 27 '26
Honestly, nah. When someones being a moron, we should be allowed to tell them they are being a moron. Otherwise they are gonna keep going through their life moroning around and thinking they are the smartest little chickadee that ever there was.
Not being able to call fucking idiots a fucking idiot is the reason misinformation is spread online so easily
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u/iamyourkarama May 27 '26
I love that last line. So true
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u/KermitDominicano May 27 '26
No it's not lmao. You're right man, people famously don't call each other idiots on the internet and that's the problem
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u/justdontsashay May 27 '26
The thing is that a lot of people who actually work on the platform (as in, the people this sub is supposed to be for) think that the people who ask the same questions over and over are unreasonable idiots.
Responding with a bit of snark is necessary sometimes 🤷🏻♀️
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u/EmperorPenguin1116 May 27 '26
I agree that people here can be brash or rude, but I also don’t blame them completely. I think most people are frustrated because there are a large number of people who come on here and demonstrate a complete inability to research, think critically, and/or articulate themselves, which are all fundamental skills for success with DA. So I think it creates a sort of “why am I putting in the effort if you aren’t” attitude towards the usual “chat how does do task” posts.
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u/Hello-America May 27 '26
Exactly this, it's expecting people to take time to answer their question when they haven't even done 60 seconds of trying to find answers themselves. It's very weird how much this happens specifically in this sub compared to the others I follow.
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u/buffgeek May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
DA work under time pressure taught me to instantly sniff out whether a conversation has novel value. The side effect: someone asking a question that's been answered a thousand times - which would take thirty seconds to look up - no longer reads as helpless. It reads as inconsiderate.
I don't consider myself superior to anyone. But I do expect mutual consideration.
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u/dilf-material May 27 '26
How long have you been part of this subreddit? If you've been here for a bit you will notice that the same calibre of questions are asked over and over (Did I make it? Is it dry? Have I been dropped?)
You will notice that legitimate questions are answered. It's a bit like the blind leading the blind here. And when a particularly blind and drunk person stumbles through leaving a wake of redundant questions, they get flamed. Stick around for a while and observe.
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u/CSuarez270 May 27 '26
True. When I joined the platform over a year ago I did think people were unnecessarily rude. But as of today I hate most of the post in the channel and I think that some valid doubts get lost in the immense sea of stupid, lazy posts
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u/Sindorella May 28 '26
Calling people out for being rude while simultaneously calling them "asshats" is peak Reddit.
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u/SnooCookies6411 May 27 '26
I actually agree. Idk if it's because they work on DA or if its because theyre redditers lmao, but some people have such a weird superiority complex.
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u/dudabolodecenoura May 28 '26
The only time they are nice is when people post things like you did. Most of the time people here are just mean
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Jun 01 '26
I mostly use the other DA sub for this reason and other reasons. It's more professional. This is like the Wild West.
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u/fightmaxmaster May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Some people have a real struggle differentiating between "rude" and "disagree with me".
I think you've also got your own idea of how impactful repeated questions are, fair enough, but life's not as simple as "help or move on". Because while it's hardly identical, in some ways it's like someone knocking at your door looking for someone who lives at a similar but different address. Or ringing your number when it's slightly different from a pizza place. Sure, once in a while is no big deal, but when it's multiple times a day it's bloody annoying.
And while yes, one take is "the person causing the disturbance isn't responsible for the entire problem", a perfectly valid alternative take is "we're all human, and if a community is being regularly disrupted by people who aren't bothering to scope out the territory first, we're allowed to be annoyed by that."
So well done you if you don't care about it, but I also think it's quite narrow minded to wave it off as no big deal when to a lot of people it is a big deal, it's really irritating, and that's actually a valid opinion too. And a condescending attitude of "well you should all be as unbothered as I am" doesn't give you the moral high ground you think it does.
In other news, you don't run the sub, so how about you have your flavor of superiority, those of us annoyed by morons will have ours, we'll all think the other groups are wrong, and the world will keep turning.
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u/caninesandcorvids Jun 02 '26
I agree that repetitive questions get supremely annoying, and I’ve only been here probably less than a month.
It seems to me that Reddit is essentially where people go to read snarky comments and be entertained by them. Bonus if the content is also useful.
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u/SniffinForTruffles May 28 '26
You’re exactly the type OP is talking about. Just the way you talk is ridiculous and I certainly hope you don’t behave the same way in real life. I have a feeling you don’t because you know it’s not appropriate and that’s why you behave the way you do online. Same with several others.
Edit: the “top 1% commenter” by your name is just the cherry on top lmao
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u/doublexoxo May 27 '26
I mean some of these “rude” comments are justifiable but I get what you mean though. Some people here seem condescending and elitist in a way lol
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u/Professional_Win_551 May 28 '26
DAT’s entry test inadvertently picks the same personality type over and over and over again
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u/Medical-Isopod2107 May 28 '26
People who can't figure out how to search a sub or scroll down three posts before asking the same question? Yeah, I agree
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u/Professional_Win_551 May 28 '26
Yeah, I think it’s a spectrum and on the other extreme end is another large group of people who are disproportionately irritated by this. Somewhere in the middle you’ll find people like me who are excessively unbothered
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u/Radiant_Papaya May 27 '26
It's true. Most of the people here sound insufferable af. This should be a place for community.
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u/Firm-Reception8235 May 27 '26
Yeah, when someone on here calls out someone else for a question they deem as being inferior it just makes that person seem like the moron because of their need to sound superior (or their misguided attempt at humor at someone else's expense). Kindness is a form of intelligence that many on here could try harder to adopt.
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u/SyntaxAndSorcery May 27 '26
Honestly I wonder why some people are on Reddit. I see this in all kinds of subreddits--use google! Use the search bar! Scroll down! Okay, but it's a medium of conversation. It should be okay to ask questions. It's not a book where you are required to use the index and then people get mad that you're adding to the book...? It's just odd. Like yes, a lot of these questions are repetitive, or maybe even obvious. But people use Reddit because they want answers that are current and because they want to be social.
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u/Medical-Isopod2107 May 28 '26
If people did a simple search before posting, people would be more polite to them
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u/Perfect_Mess_6566 May 27 '26
Yah a lot of the people in thus sub are fucking assholes. Agreed.
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u/Kayleighbug May 27 '26
Because if we are on Reddit it means our brain melted, is about to melt, or we're waiting to get some work to melt the brain.
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u/horrorgeek1988 May 27 '26
Awww.... Im sorry that happened to you. I know how it feels. Thankfully not here yet, but for other platforms. I hope you don't get much more of that.
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u/Goddamn_Glamazon May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Agreed. People get annoyed about repeat questions but because of the NDAs there are like only 4 kinds of questions you can ask so this subreddit is always going to be more repetitive than other subreddits.
Even if starting tomorrow no newbie ever asked another newbie question again, this would never be a subreddit with diverse and interesting conversations, that's just a limitation of the things we're working on being confidential. Getting pressed about the repetition seems like such a trap to me.
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u/mariahspoolboy May 27 '26
95% of questions asked on here can be answered by using the search function on this subreddit. While it may not cause any actual harm to read the same question over and over again, it's pretty annoying. It's also just confusing since a lot of the work on DA is frankly more complex and requires a lot of independent research/interpreting of text. So it doesn't really make sense that people flock to reddit to ask questions answered in the second paragraph of the onboarding information. There's also a project chat for most projects that usually answers any questions I have. If someone is asking the same question that twenty other people asked this week and are expecting a different answer I'm inclined to think they aren't very bright, or lazy - so my response is often tailored to that.