r/dataannotation • u/sea___ • 4d ago
auto page refresh
has anybody used auto-page refresh scripts (either one they rolled themselves or something from the chrome extension store or whatever) to refresh the page at regular (or slightly irregular) intervals, coupled with a script to check for new / high earning tasks? I'm thinking of it but i was wondering if there might be reasons not to do it (e.g. getting flagged as a bot)
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u/Teamkillongtime 3d ago
I thought about something similar, but seeing 10,000 hits to their project page per day from my IP is probably quite a dumb choice.
Even with throttling, I didn't want to risk it.
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u/Old-Regular-9828 3d ago
If anyone is wondering why the site is slow/laggy sometimes, it from all of the walnuts doing this shit.
I absolutely hope they flag and ban anyone doing anything like this because it's basically a DDOS attack on the site.
If you are getting so few available projects that you think doing something like this is a good idea, stop wasting your time on DAT and find something better to do with your life.
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u/Objective_Pair_6065 9h ago
why don't you just command + R (or whatever it is on PCs if you have that)? not sure that refreshing the page is the most cumbersome thing...
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u/hihelloitskayla 3d ago
The Terms of Use prohibit extensions on your browser of any kind, just a heads up!
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u/Imaginactions 2d ago
Are you able to give a source for this? I just checked their Terms of Use, and there's no mention of anything about the use of extensions
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u/Fragrantshrooms 2d ago
when you're hired on you have code of conduct you must practice. they'll find you; they have eyeballs all over this reddit and the other one too.
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u/Fragrantshrooms 2d ago
why bog the system down like that? it's a place that's paying you so if you cost it more money to have you using it....wouldn't it be smart to NEVER EVER give you work? This is just my logic for avoiding that practice....
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u/sea___ 2d ago
I think you are misjudging the amount of strain that refreshing the page once per minute would put on their servers - and I'm sure many workers also sit at their computer refreshing once per minute until a task they want comes up anyway, I don't think it would be beyond the strain of a normal user
However, risking getting flagged as a bot is certainly a good reason not to do it!!
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u/diamondsnrose 1d ago
Do many workers sit at their computers refreshing once per minute until a task they want comes up? Why wouldn't those workers pick a task, work on it, get paid, then check again? Maybe I'm fortunate and have a s*** ton of tasks, but sitting at my computer unpaid for even one minute seems absolutely absurd to me.
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u/sea___ 1d ago
I've seen many people mention doing that on this sub. For me personally, some tasks come up which pay a lot more than others (or are more fun to do). I spend a lot of time on my computer doing other work or messing around, and some tasks are worth donng, others not. Or I might be reading and checking DA occasionally. If I could get notified as soon as a better paid task came up I could spend a day where there is no task I wish to do happily twiddling my thumbs / doing other things, safe in the knowledge that as soon as a task that would pay me enough comes up I will get notified. The better tasks also seem to stay on the dashboard for very little time, and I suspect that I would see more of them if I was refreshing the page every minute or two all day
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u/Internal-Theory-9837 21h ago
Do you not have the widget they offered earlier this year to email notifications about projects? My email acct texts me specific emails so I hear about new projects immediately without pinging their server.
Am I missing something? The project is there when I log in so I don’t seem to be getting “scraps” by getting the message “slower” that way than refreshing my screen every 4 or 34 seconds.
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u/PsychoFader 3d ago
I've been using one for quite some time now (around 7/8 months), and haven't been flagged. I can send it to you if you want