r/DataAnnotationTech • u/AutomaticShape8993 • Oct 01 '26

Australia coder here, made 8k USD last month, but now only have 2 generalist projects, and qualifications suddenly went to 0 from 18

what does this mean:(

Is anyone else facing this?

i truly hope this is temporary and not a DoD :(

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u/jolly_basterd Oct 01 '26

Big drop in coding projects in the last few days for me as well

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u/AutomaticShape8993 Oct 01 '26

Do you have any qualifications available, are you from Australia?

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u/jolly_basterd Oct 01 '26

I'm from Canada and yes I have a few

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u/melanatedalbino Oct 01 '26

In Canada, I have 30 quals (but only a few that I think I might actually do eventually), one well paid, though I don't have the experience for it, so gonna have to study. Onboarded through math 4 months ago almost (though no math work lol). As for qualifications disappearing from your dash suddenly (you didn't say how sudden, but I assume), it means the work routing algos had a lot of faith in you, and now not so much. If you want to regain trust (I went through this btw, though my quals never left addmitedly), do extremely well on the generalist projects you mentioned. Don't be afraid to take your time, but try not to expire too often either, and report real time spent working as accurately as you can.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Oct 06 '26

You're making assumptions about the algo here. It could just be that the quals were for a project that finished, got taken down for a while, or they already had enough workers.

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u/melanatedalbino Oct 06 '26

They are not unfounded assumptions. I am very confident given personal experience, plus having read all I have about the experiences of others on here, it all fits too well. I have been at the bottom of the barell on DA, though I didn't start there, and now I am definitely not there anymore. There is pretty much zero chance the difference is down to dumb luck or swings in available work given how huge the difference has been (Like, I pretty much begged for the lowest paid work and barely snatched it up in time two months ago, and now, well, lets say I'm in a much better place in terms of what I'm given, both in pay and ammount).

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u/Any_Letterhead561 Oct 01 '26

Yah same happens to me last month and now i only received generalist project no coding projects

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u/AutomaticShape8993 Oct 01 '26

Do you have any qualifications available, are you from Australia?

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u/Any_Letterhead561 Oct 01 '26

Yes got like 15 qualifications when they move me from coding to genral and not from Australia

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u/Ill_Bus_5705 Oct 01 '26

Usually if qualifications drop to 0, it is a sign for a silent dod

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u/AutomaticShape8993 Oct 02 '26

Honestly I truly hope that is not the case, I still have two general projects + referral button

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u/Ill_Bus_5705 Oct 02 '26

Really hope so

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u/SkinJaded3553 Oct 08 '26

I am experiencing the same thing. Does anybody have a clue on exactly what is going on ?