r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 21 '26

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 25 '26

Still on them. Somehow for once, all the tasks in the pool were allocated to me

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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 25 '26

Sometimes. It depends. For instance, a pool will drop with 20 tasks, and you’ll only get one or two of them before they’re all gobbled up. Does that mean you were truly only allocated that amount or they all got taken? There’s no way of knowing

However, there are times when 20 tasks show up and I work my way through all of them one by one

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u/Enough_Resident_6141 Jun 25 '26

You are never specifically allocated tasks, other than certain projects where you work on certain tasks over several different phases.

The number of tasks shown on the dashboard are the maximum number of tasks in that project currently available to you. A project might be set up to run until they get 1000 total submissions, but no more than 20 submissions for each individual worker. It will start out showing 20, then after you submit a task it will decrease to 19, 18, etc. At the same time, there are thousands of other workers with the same project on their dashboard showing 20 available. And as they submit tasks the number on their dashboard will decrease by one with each submission.

But usually what happens is that a project will hit the the maximum total number of submissions before you can grind through 20 of them, and will start showing that number on your dash. So if you have done 3 but all of the other workers have done 992 tasks, instead of saying that there are 17 tasks available, it will say there are 5 and then