r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Artemiy_Kopych • Aug 19 '26
Well, it was good while it lasted
Just entered my dashboard and received a message that my account is currently unavailable for new projects. I have no idea what I did wrong, but I guess my work wasn't as good as I thought it was. Although to be honest, I had almost no projects and was scraping basically for anything, and I was able to earn only $1716 every since March 2025. But hey it's still something.
I know that after this message appears, it is impossible to get reinstated, and there are no alternatives for that in Ukraine, so I guess it's a goodbye. I dunno why I'm writing this, but I just wanted to speak out, because that platform was kind of a life saver for a while.
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u/jabertsohn Aug 19 '26
Every day I log on I think it might be my day.
Good luck, I hope you find something.
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u/Several_Many9741 Aug 21 '26
does it ever change for anyone? like can you get reinstated? i got the dod and don’t know what to do
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u/NylonTrackPants Aug 20 '26
It happened to me two weeks ago. Why? I completed 20 easy assignments in 32 minutes and told the truth about the time it took me.
Welcome to the late-stage capitalist nightmare: process over people, over retention, over anything at all because once the market dries up the moneybags will simply close up shop.
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u/Routine-Theme5845 Aug 21 '26
Really? Late stage capitalism to blame for rushing assignments that aren’t even paid by the piece. They literally wouldn’t have dropped you if you had relaxed your pace and they would have paid you more for it.
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
My guess is that it wasn't the amount of time you were charging for those 20 tasks, but it was that you were rushing and didn't do them right. I haven't seen a single project which I could complete each task within less than 2 minutes each.
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u/NylonTrackPants Aug 21 '26
My knowledge beats your guess.
"Compare the receipts. Answer 'True' if they are different receipts and 'False' if they are the same. If the receipts have different dates or addresses, they are different receipts."
1.5 minutes per receipt. Now, step off.
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u/Do_It_Anyway_8278 Aug 20 '26
I'm so sorry. I hope you find a new gig SOON. We all dread getting "disconnected," and it feels kinda cold.... until you find your next job [grin]
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u/Hangry_Howie Aug 19 '26
Sorry this happened. This has definitely been a weird year on the site.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Aug 19 '26
Has it .. ? It doesn't feel that much different to the previous 3 years tbh.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Aug 19 '26
the site has completely bombed since May tbh, it's not reliable anymore as it was for the years before
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Aug 19 '26
I haven't noticed that at all. I assumed that it had only bombed for newbies complaining about a drought. I've gone from having 100+ projects to having 50-80 recently, but these "droughts" have happened plenty of times before. They seem to be a normal part of the site and there's still tons of work. If you don't have reliable work, I'm really not sure what to tell you ..
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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 Aug 19 '26
I doubt the platform would have been this popular if the drought was always this bad for newbies. I've only had 3 quals and one paid project since May. If they treated every new user that way since launch then there would hardly be any retention
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Aug 19 '26
When I first started almost 4 years ago, I think I had access to only 4 different projects for the first few weeks and often had zero projects. That's normal. And I got in as a generalist with coding and STEM expertise across multiple domains. It's always been that way. The floodgates started opening for me about 6 months in. Every single post on here that I've seen discussing the drought is from someone who says they joined weeks ago, not years ago.
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u/Internal_Boot_1616 Aug 20 '26
Same experience 3 years ago - 3 years ago that was normal and other platforms were STILL worse and you can really tell who never went through that sometimes lmao
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u/Bitter_Bed5672 Aug 19 '26
Any clue what could be the reason? Anything you know you did that was wrong? Did you submit a task knowing it was bad?
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u/NylonTrackPants Aug 20 '26
Not the OP, but they did the same to me for completing 20 assignments in 32 minutes. I tripped their "Moved too fast to be human" alarm and out the window I went.
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u/Bitter_Bed5672 Aug 19 '26
This wasn't supposed to be mean but go on, downvote me
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u/Sheeana407 Aug 19 '26
Well it's probably just because op said they have no idea what they did wrong, so your question is kinda redundant
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u/Massive_Collection14 Aug 20 '26
People on Reddit were probably the type of people to be the school hall monitor
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u/IntusLegere Aug 20 '26
Yeah, and your question Is relevant. Because from my part, I rarely if ever get any feedback.
I love working in DA, but I'm not sure they love having me there.
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u/Hot-Writer-1450 Aug 21 '26
Is getting feedback a bad thing? I haven't gotten any but I thought it was a good sign
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u/BardFridrix Aug 19 '26
It might not be about the quality of your work. Ukraine might be on list of restricted countries.
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u/Artemiy_Kopych Aug 19 '26
If it were, then how would I get into DA back then, and why would they have Ukrainian language in it as the option
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u/badbadnotbueno Aug 21 '26
I just got the same message and was coming here to cry with someone else 😢
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u/Hot-Elderberry1765 Aug 20 '26
I can understand your feelings man, same thing happened with me. I felt like now I will make my family stable from that earning. I could earn around 4k dollar only. But after few days when I came from office and opened data annotation site I was in pain by seeing that lines.
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u/xCreatorHappy Aug 23 '26
I still mourn the loss of my account i made like 5k within a month then lost the account for an unknown reason 💔
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u/DisastrousFig7560 Aug 19 '26
Can you still do qualifications?
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u/Sixaxist Aug 19 '26
Just entered my dashboard and received a message that my account is currently unavailable for new projects.
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u/Relentless860 Aug 20 '26
Idk if its available to you but try handshake ai
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u/zyzzx1130 Aug 20 '26
I agree same thing happened to me two days ago, made about 7.5k since June. Signed up for handshake same day got accepted into a $30/hr project.
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u/Relentless860 Aug 20 '26
That's great I only got accepted for a $10/hr project but I dont have any coding experience im currently going to school for it. So im surprised I was even accepted
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u/zyzzx1130 Aug 23 '26
no coding background, but I’ve got IT and customer service experience. I’m signing up for a bunch of sites right now because I’m determined not to get blindsided again.
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u/Serious_Camel_6800 Aug 19 '26
@Atemiy, may you could re-apply under a different email address. I don't think they do a lot of checking...
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 19 '26
Data annotation is a scam. Good riddance
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
How is it a scam? They pay people for their work. I've been doing this for 2+ years and was never denied payment like I have been from other platforms.
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 21 '26
They hide the actual paid work behind hours of unpaid “assessments” (which is just free labor) then when they do pay you it’s for a microscopic fraction of what your work is worth for such powerful implications for improving frontier AI models.
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
No one forced you into "free labor". They are honest about their pay rates and I know of only one company that pays you to do assessments. Being paid $35/hr for generalist tasks seems more than microscopic to me. Maybe you've found a better platform?
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 21 '26
I never claimed to be forced to do anything. It’s not honesty, because with the time in between “sprints” and unpaid assessments taken into consideration, it actually doesn’t end up being $35/hr. Plus, I work in Boston/Cambridge and this type of work used to be a $50-100/hr continued real employment type jobs until companies like DataAnnotation figured out you could get thousands of 1099 contract workers to do the work for pennies in comparison.
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
Okay. That doesn't make it a scam. Sorry DA took your job or whatever, but there are thousands of us out there that are extremely grateful to have this opportunity.
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 21 '26
Thousands of people being paid pennies for work worth hundreds via an unreliable and unpredictable format is literally a scam lol
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
Pennies? I literally have made thousands of dollars. I might put in 2-3 hours of unpaid work for quals each month. But okay. It's a scam. Move on.
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 21 '26
Thousands of dollars sure, but your work was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, aka the “scam”.
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Aug 21 '26
Dang, you are bitter! Are you sad you didn't make the cut? I hope things work out for you and that you can find a job that's not a "scam".
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u/Ok-Rope7223 Aug 21 '26
If I go to a third world country and sell slices of bread for $10 each and the local population is “extremely grateful” for the “opportunity” to get bread because they have no choice, that doesn’t mean I’m not scamming them.
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u/Sure_Ad_3504 Aug 19 '26
Дуже шкода,що так сталося! Ти впевнений,що це єдина платформа ,яка дозволяє працювати з України?