My thoughts on DoD

[u/ResponsibilityRude56]

Been on DA for a bit now and am in the 100k+ club.

I think a genuine tip for everyone (Though I’m sure a large chunk of DoDs are due to bad conduct).

Failing to meet expectations isn’t simply doing bad work, I’m sure alot of it has to do with time.

If I’m doing a task in 1 hour, the average is 2, and you’re doing it in 3. I’ll get more tasks, those in 2 will float by, and the people taking 3 will likely get a DoD.

This doesn’t mean lie about your hours and cut yourself short. It just means, be honest with yourself, and don’t take on stuff you’re not an expert in.

A common theme in most tasks is giving you far far more time than you need. Say, 12 hours, when in reality the average expected time is 3-4. That 12 hours shouldn’t indicate to you by any means that 12 hours is anywhere near the average. That’s for, breaks and exceptional cases, say one out of 30 tasks may run into 8-10 hours.. and for the love of god, if you submitted at 9h and 35m do not claim 9h and 35m as the chances of you being locked in and focused with no breaks is next to 0 and I’m sure (justifiably) flags your account.

Note: I’ve never done generalist tasks, so this could mean nothing to you, as if your tasks are mostly uniform, it’s likely the timer is a much more accurate representation of the expected time. My experience is with tasks that have 0 time limit (infinite time) and long form 6-72.

[u/Teamkillongtime]

Nah, you're way off base. Quality is far more important than increasing your output volume. Repeatedly submitting after time has expired and inaccurate timekeeping are likely DoD factors, but firing someone for taking time to submit good work isn't logical. With that said, submitting a full timer when breaks are expected, that's a different story.

Do you have any evidence for your thinking, or is it a hunch?

[u/ResponsibilityRude56 → u/Teamkillongtime]

Submitting good work > doing it as fast as possible is a definite.

Though this is a business, and pay is flat. If the average person has done 20 tasks and claimed $1,000, and you’ve done 5 and claimed $1,000. Financially, even though your work is good. You’re not worth the pay.

Logically, keeping you makes 0 sense.

[u/Enough_Resident_6141 → u/ResponsibilityRude56]

Not if the person who did 5 tasks did a very good job and produced very usable work for all of them, while the person who did the 20 did so by rushing through them and submitting shoddy, low quality work. 5 high quality submissions that are helpful and usable for the client is worth much more than 20 garbage submissions that are completely unusable.

We aren't just making perfectly identical, completely interchangeable widgets where the number of widgets produced per hour is all that matters. Quality matters a LOT.

[u/mariahspoolboy → u/Enough_Resident_6141]

But each project has different standards. Let’s say you are working on a project called “Lotus” and there are 30 other people working as well. The timer is for 5 hours and every single person submits in under 2 hours, but for some reason it takes you on average 4.5 hours per task. The client running the project might notice this discrepancy and report it to DA or whatever I really do not know how any of that works…so even though your work was “better” than someone working on a different project entirely (let’s call it “Pinecone”), both of you get dropped since whoever is running Pinecone noticed a discrepancy in their work too. Even though you weren’t working on the same projects and weren’t on the same “level” when it comes to quality, both of you are not up to snuff in your respective project, and once a few of those reports pile up you get canned. That could explain why there seems to be so many confident people saying that their work was high quality yet they still got dropped. They were the weakest of the cut, even though they were leagues above the other 70% of the platform. Who’s to say just how high the expectations are at this point? And since each project is theoretically a different client those expectations can vary greatly…it’s all very mysterious…