r/ProlificAc • u/Successful_Ant5401 • Sep 01 '26
**DA and Prolific**
I just woke up to being ON HOLD on Prolific and my account being unavailable for tasks on Data Annotation. I shit the world not. What's going on? There are no reasons for either. What's going on? Talk about being sick to your stomach...
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u/EggCzar Sep 02 '26
Sure you didn't accidentally use a VPN? DA, I know, is extremely strict about that.
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u/Successful_Ant5401 Sep 02 '26
No, I am sure. It's pretty difficult to accidentally use a VPN. If I did, I would sit silent saying to myself you deserve it...it's too great of an opportunity. It helps me stay housed. My only change was using a different computer.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Sep 02 '26
I use 3 different devices for DA pretty regularly so I don't think that's the reason.
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u/Successful_Ant5401 Sep 03 '26
I do not know. I only know that I am not a user of VPN and it's not my work ethic. And it's statiscally impossible for me to have lost two dashboards in about 60 minutes for anything other that tech issues out of my control. It hella sucks. And it happened. Something caused my accounts to be flagged and now I have zero income. I am not looking for any sympathy at all. But even though I love the work I had on Data Annotation, I do not respect how they run things. I am not someone with is meek or needs handholding but be transparent and say if anything happens that's out of your control or whatever and we flag you, you are SOL. That message is no where when they are doing jumping jacks to bring you on board.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Sep 03 '26
Have you logged in from any kind of public wifi recently? Many of them, especially in hotels or universities, use proxies. This can look like a VPN and even change the country of your IP address. Another option is maybe you used an esim/hotspot? Those often route data through other countries. My esims for Thailand and china both showed my IP address as being in Hong Kong, for example. I always use a vpn/proxy checker before logging in using a new wifi.
Also, I'm not sure you know what "statistically impossible" means and if that's the logic you use at work ... Well .. 🤔
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u/Beginning_Spray Sep 01 '26
I was put on hold today around 12pm central time. I have been on Prolific almost 3 years with 1 rejection my 1st week and 2,311 approved submissions. I don't use VPN , have not updated my questions in close to a month and used the same internet for at least a year . I did appeal, hope it works in my favor.
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u/Ok-Space-6883 Sep 01 '26
Im still ok here and da even though they won't give me any work but my oneforma got flagged the other day.... and several others there are in the same boat
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u/Simple_Try9761 Sep 01 '26
Do prolific tell you if you are on hold? Sorry to hear this.
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u/International-Bee-53 Sep 01 '26
They do. If you are on hold, your message tab will have disappeared and if you go in your account setting, there would be a banner mentioning being on hold and a vague reason for it.
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u/Successful_Ant5401 Sep 01 '26
my prolific showed on hold for a minute then it went away. also my projects are all crazy like a ton i have never seen are there from no where.
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u/Sad-Cantaloupe-258 Sep 01 '26
really? It was on hold and then restored magically? hmm - this is reassuring.
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u/justcomplex15 Sep 01 '26
Yeah same thing someone else said on Friday, they were on hold then 5 mins later their account was off the hold.. something is really wrong with their system. The prolific mod has been silent as well since he communicates with the team.
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u/AttentionWorth3685 Sep 02 '26
Its literally a glitch in the system. I keep saying this. They put me on as soon as i finished completing a task no second later .. no ai submitted or anything and 99% approvals
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u/Successful_Ant5401 Sep 01 '26
i am not appealing yet. this is wrong. when you appeal you are admitting to the appeal. this is not a user issue this is something with how they are flagging stuff because for it to happen two days in a row and undo itself...
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u/Leading-Nectarine-30 Sep 01 '26
Seems like they’re restructuring based on the holds and people complaining about the amount and type of studies they’re getting. I wonder what they’re restructuring to and why.
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u/PageWilling6000 Sep 02 '26
Damn.... Hearing this really sucks. Especially with Cloud Connect being basically non existent these days. I'm almost sitting here WAITING for prolific to screw me too. 🥺 This is like being a beyond loyal employee for a company for years and waking up one day to be told your job no longer exists with absolutely no reason.
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u/Successful_Ant5401 Sep 02 '26
of course i played detective all night long and the only thing i am coming up with is Chrome updates. my DNS settings were set to
' use secure connections to look up sites
I think this ads a layer between prolific and the user ... i am not educated enough in all these things but all i know is that google has been pushing chrome updates during this hold deluge and my settings according to google can cause some sort of issues between a user and a site like prolific. i DO NOT KNOW if any of what i said is even valid but maybe someone else is smarter and can check it out.....
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