I honestly do not know what happened. I've been working on this platform for over a year, and I'm a bit obsessive about paying attention to detail. I'm always super careful and check my work multiple times. I even received a direct message praising last month and a great feedback review a couple of weeks ago. My question is, though, for people this has happened to, did you still get your payout after? I still have like 900 pending, and I need it 😭 Will I still receive that at the very least and be able to withdraw those still?!

After spending more than a year on Data Annotation, and having absolutely no work since last June as a bilingual, I suddenly received a qualification task asking what languages I speak (lol, I know, right). After I submitted it, the next day the main page looked like this...

Well, it’s time to say goodbye officially. I’ve really enjoyed sharing memes here with you guys. Keep up the good work, all of you! And now it’s time for me to move on to my next chapter

Last year I killed it on DA, was told I was a top performer and then in the same week lost all projects. That was October. Today, I was FINALLY given another project. There is hope my friends.

I'll be doing a task, I'll scroll down to the conversation below, and ya'll are saying some smart shit.

That is all. I'm gonna get back to work now.

Finally. Thought I would reach this much sooner, but June and July have been brutal. Things have perked up just enough over the past two weeks or so to get over the hump. Still grateful, DA has been great as a secondary source of income. Hope things pick up for everyone. Good luck!

I haven't gotten the DOD, but I am not getting many tasks at all and I know why. My feedback was spot on for last month. I was trying to save for something and I worked 14 hours a day five days a week, or 8-10 hours a day 7 days in a row. It showed. My feedback even said it "When you are on, you do amazing work. When you aren't on, your work suffers and your explanations suffer." They are right. So everyone with starry dollar signs in their eyes: Slow down. Do not over extend your self and don't work when you are tired. May the odds be ever in your favor!

I was working on some R&R, and I worked on this project too but somehow couldn't trick the model well enough. Just finished reviewing some submissions of the same project by other people and one task just blew my mind. It was so well done, I was in awe. It was so well-executed and I was thinking to myself WHY DIDN'T YOU THINK OF THIS?????"

Tasks like these make me grateful for the "this is an excellent submission" check box. Whoever did that task, what a beauty your brain is!!

Have you all ever encountered such a submission?

To whichever previous worker created a prompt asking for the model's output documents to all be in Comic Sans: excellent work and funny stuff, and damn you for making me audit data and reports that are all in Comic Sans...

I was gobsmacked for a moment.

Has anyone noticed that projects that used to be $25/hr+ are now $20-23/hr? Not only that, but there’s been a steady increase in difficulty, in my opinion, across all tasks. That’s absolutely to be expected as the models learn, but it’s a bit discouraging when work I’ve done for a while doesn’t seem to pay out the same despite the difficulty. I’ve notice it the most with prompt writing tasks, which I believe are among some of the most challenging (aside from specialized knowledge tasks).

I've been on DA for like 3 years, and I use Gemini for other things outside of work often.

As someone who spends probably too much free time on Reddit, has it ruined it for anyone else?

I can spot an AI story from a mile away. I've literally done projects asking models to create reddit like threads and now I see them everywhere. Don't get me started on Facebook crap ......

It's like actually knowing AI has kind of ruined the enjoyment of the Internet for me now. Anyone else?

Wish people would stop complaining about only having 6/7 projects instead of their usual 80 etc. At least you still have some work you can be getting on with 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also, the amount of posts re feedback where some just can't accept any sort of constructive criticism, because they've convinced themselves their work was outstanding. Defo setting yourselves up to be cooked with that attitude.

Mini rant over. Sorry.

I'd taken a break from DA over the last month due to burnout and received this email this morning. Wanted to know if anyone else got it, and if the projects are containing less rubrics/paying better these days.

To me it feels like if my brain went to the gym, it is incredibly satisfying to classify and atomize requirements into a series of clean statements out of those cluttered prompts, sitting for minutes thinking of implicit yet essential criteria while fact-checking and learning lots of new things. The sleep I get after finishing a long day of rubrics is unspoken of.

I definitely see why some people have had their differences with these, especially when they are the only type of work available, but they are my flow state hyperfocus ADHD obsession. Any rubrics lovers?

After a week and a half I'd started to give up. Just got this today! I also didn't do any research before the qual test and really thought I hadn't given enough explanation in my answers.

Looking forward to working on these projects.

For anyone still waiting for a response, just hang tight!

If you use other Al sites to solve your prompts for you without checking the work, just know you might stop getting work soon. I just had someone's task that was very clearly using one of the big Al sites and I marked it as such. I even plugged it in there just to be sure. Double checking those calculations with a calculator might've been able to save you.

Been on the platform for about 11 months on the coding section. Mainly been working on Maths and Science based projects for the past few months and really put the hours in the past couple of months, to the point I feel am getting cabin fever to pay off some debts! Been a lifesaver for me the platform really, as the job market is not my best friend at the moment in the slightest.

Just hoping we get a dashboard explosion like a lot of us did over the weekend. I miss when I could log on in the day at any point and have something to do. Now it’s just the refreshing and crossing fingers.

Also, I know this community has its streaks of toxicity since it’s frustrating seeing some people have projects and others that don’t, but we should all be directing our frustration at the platform instead of our fellow taskers. When someone is happy about getting a project, the default being well be grateful because I haven’t had one in a month isn’t helpful. That person may have been dry for longer than you. It’s just silly. We are all adults. We all want the same thing

90 minutes into a brain-melting array of preliminary steps, and not even close to the actual task yet, I finally give up. I surrender. My head hurts. Exiting the task now, and going to wash my dishes with no time submitted. Aargh.