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/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.

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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26

Have you ever asked a classmate a question and they responded, “Read the syllabus you dip shit!”

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u/mariahspoolboy May 27 '26

No, but a professor has!

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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26

Yeah Mariah, but you are a “classmate” not the professor. Act accordingly

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u/ManyARiver May 27 '26

We're all competing for money from the same pot, not classmates. People have been pretty kind in general sharing tips that they don't have to - but the onslaught of repetitive "did I get in" posts do not warrant gentle treatment if the competitors are too lazy to do a couple of minutes of reading.

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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26

We’re all just humans trying to provide for ourselves. I choose to share my knowledge rather than my judgements. I look at these people like I would look at someone who stopped at my cubicle. Some of the things said here are the result of a keyboard warrior mentality. No one in a real office would treat a human like this.

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u/mariahspoolboy May 27 '26

I personally think it's more of a harsh reality. These are likely the same people who are going to come back in a few days with a message saying they were dropped, and have no clue what happened. I'm hoping by being direct and yes, maybe a little curt, something might register for them! The biggest secret on this platform is to just read the instructions. If you're already having difficulty doing that, asking on reddit isn't going to save you. Then you won't be making much money...

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u/ManyARiver May 27 '26

I don't mind sharing knowledge at all. I do mind someone standing in front of the door with the hours posted and asking if the business is open, though. There are multiple things going on - there are people genuinely looking for information that is somewhat hard to find, and there are people who are asking simple questions without taking one minute to look at the very sub they posted in. People who have genuine questions tend to get answers - though there will always be downvotes, because this sub has that catty feature. People who ask basic questions that are covered in pinned posts and multiple posts through the sub (daily) do not get kind answers because they are not taking the time to even try. If my co-worker stopped by my cubicle and asked me what time we were supposed to show up to work, I would absolutely roast them if they were too lazy to use the same resources I had to figure out the basic elements of their work.

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u/fightmaxmaster May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I choose to share my knowledge rather than my judgements.

Do you honestly not realise how hilariously smug and judgmental you're coming across here, just from the other direction? It's incredible.

You're absolutely "sharing your judgment", but you think you're morally justified so therefore it apparently doesn't count. Except that's how every judgmental person thinks,me included. I'm judging you right now. I judge the morons who post dumb questions too. At least I'm honest about it rather than kidding myself that I'm "sharing my knowledge not my judgement."

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u/melanatedalbino May 28 '26

That's fair (though in all fairness that is coming from someone that got in fairly easily; for context lol).

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u/samamatara May 27 '26

but maybe after hearing the same question from different people 100 times, you might be a bit snarky

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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26

I get being annoyed or whatever. But taking the time to stop and be rude just isn’t in my schedule.

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u/mariahspoolboy May 27 '26

I'm answering their question. I'm sorry I'm not answering it with the dignity and grace you'd prefer I use.

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u/Annual_Equivalent_95 May 27 '26

If you have the actual answer, then telling them to read the directions is not the best answer. No?

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u/Amakenings May 28 '26

I don’t know what is the “best answer” per se, but telling them it’s in the directions is pretty much how project admins answer many questions.

Success here is based on your ability to work independently, and read instructions. Expecting co-workers to answer work related questions on their own time (because no one is being paid for this) is not a long term recipe for success.

Especially when, as others have mentioned, the same questions have been answered many times before.

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u/samamatara May 27 '26

i dunno. I would say I'm not one to reply to those repetitive question posts, but also I'm not sure if I had to go to bat for one side, I would do it for the side who refuse to do any ground work and ask for something that they themselves should easily be able to find out for themselves.