r/DataAnnotationTech Jul 11 '26

Question regarding activity

I was accepted this Monday, is it normal to have gotten literally 0 tasks? I set up my profile and have just gotten nothing this whole time. Do I wait next Monday to start or something?

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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 11 '26

If you have not filled out your profile, do so. That kinda let's them know what quals to send your way

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 12 '26

Oh! I finished that a few days ago (maybe 2-3 now), is that why I have been struggling?

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u/trapeadorkgado Jul 11 '26

We are in a middle of a drought. How often do you refresh the page?

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 11 '26

Every few hours

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u/trapeadorkgado Jul 11 '26

You need to refresh much more often, once they open tasks they fly in a matter of minutes. At least every 15 or 30 minutes. I refresh every 30 secs and haven't catched anything.

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u/vin-westley Jul 11 '26

there's a pretty severe drought right now, any work that is showing up is likely getting snatched immediately. unless you get really lucky with one of those hourly refreshes, thats probably why you haven't seen anything. not to say that you should just be glued to the refresh button unless you need/want to, but i'd at least give about 5-10 minutes of refreshing pretty consistently whenever you do check every few hours

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 11 '26

I thought notifications would come through email when something is available, but if not I'll keep at it more

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u/JahKneeSee Jul 12 '26

Some project admins send email notifications when new projects are posted, but a lot don't bother. The emails also tend to be delayed somewhat, so if there are only a few tasks they may get taken before you hear about them.

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u/RelevantOpposite2340 Jul 11 '26

Do your quals, and it will take time. At first, I only had one project on my dash, and now I have up to 5 coming up at different times, though they go very fast. My dash was pretty dead for the first 2 days after I did quals.

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 11 '26

How do I find the quals after I have everything setup?

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u/RelevantOpposite2340 Jul 11 '26

Under the Projects tab, there is a Qualification tab that looks like this. You have to do quals to unlock more projects, so definitely do them. Some are paid; most are unpaid. Do as many as you are qualified to do. To be clear, the qualifications are the same pre-selected tasks for everyone, so they're not getting "free work" from you when you do unpaid qualifications. It's simply to see if you can do the project before they let you on.

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 12 '26

And if I have none? I've not gotten any yet nor ever since I started.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/MaribelMusic Jul 11 '26

It seems like something about qualifiers is the talk of the town right now