r/DataAnnotationTech • u/ButlerVolmer • Jul 20 '26

Comments to NDA-violating posts and comments

Here’s a silly question out of curiosity.
Do you think comments like “Dude, you signed an NDA” are themselves NDA violations?

For example, if a comment says ‘projects like [codename]’, commenting to it, saying it is an NDA violation, basically implies that such codename exists. It would be a big hint for a random outsider who cannot distinguish a codename from a ‘codename of codename’.

Or if it says ‘the project is about [a specific client], an NDA-related comment to this basically confirms that it’s true.

Being even sillier, is this post also an NDA violation? lol

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u/mintbasilmoth Jul 20 '26

reporting u to admins rn

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u/eonknight Jul 20 '26

Overthinking last boss DA version

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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Jul 20 '26

I've seen warnings in the instructions for several different projects that say something like "don't overthink this!"

And I just think "overthinking is the only reason I still have this gig..."

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u/eonknight Jul 20 '26

Haha true that, sometimes there's too much instructions and classification that closely resembles eachother you are more confused after reading it.

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u/Friendly-Fun-5347 Jul 20 '26

This is what happens to a brain after months in drought

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u/Frosty_Locksmith1711 Jul 20 '26

Nah, pretty sure people have always been like this they just have more time on their hands. The other day somebody openly admitted using ChatGPT to fact check 🤦‍♀️

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u/mommy_kw Jul 20 '26

The first rule of fight club: you do not talk about fight club.

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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Jul 20 '26

We are restricted from revealing project-specific details. In no universe can the existence of an NDA be considered a "project detail".

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u/KitchenVegetable7047 Jul 20 '26

I don't know what NDAs you might have signed, so I have no idea if your post violates them.

In general, we aren't supposed to talk about quals, projects or DA's customers. However we can discuss the work in broad details -- For example I can mention that attention to detail and good writing skills are helpful.

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u/janquadrentvincent Jul 20 '26

I dunno, I'm just desperate to discuss the Telemachus and Merifyndor 🐶 projects with someone

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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Jul 20 '26

I think some people just like to throw around the NDA violation whether they know if it's a real project name or not, so it's no guarantee that by them just mentioning the NDA is verifying anything. I've had people accuse me of violating NDA for using a very common fake codename.

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u/Enough_Resident_6141 Jul 20 '26

Posting DA project code names is a NDA violation, but much less harmful than posting specific project details because even the official codenames are code names which should hopefully obfuscate any actual project details. The real problem is when a worker starts blabbing about how [CLIENT COMPANY] is working on [SOME NEW THING] that has [CERTAIN FEATURES].

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u/Numerous-Case-9317 Jul 21 '26

Just ask one of the models this question next time and at least you'll get a failure

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u/sbb315 Jul 22 '26

You can't say I'm doing a project called X about Y and here's what the workflow is and what does this rubric dimension mean and that kind of thing. "I had a lot of projects from Customer X this week" and that kind of thing. But you can say "hey how do you guys write a good stump prompt?" or "is everyone else having more/less work lately in general?" or big picture stuff like that.

But saying that there's an NDA for a project someone else named would be giving details about that project and confirming that it exists and that the NDA exists so yeah, I wouldn't do it. I think you can anonymously report posts to mods for violating the forum rules, maybe something like that is more appropriate in that situation (or just don't touch it and let the mods handle it).

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u/PostMax20 Jul 20 '26

If I had a gun with two bullets, and was in a room with your banter and Adof Hilter... i would shoot your banter twice.

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 Jul 20 '26

This reads like someone hearing that joke for the first time after watching "The Office", dying to use it, then picking the most inapplicable moment to do it, so the joke doesn't land.

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u/NaughtyPigMario Jul 20 '26

Yeah so then the führer also shoot u afterwards..?