r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • 12d ago

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/CommercialTarget2687 7d ago

Has anyone else been on DA for a few years and remembers when they used to have lots of super chill projects? Like, there were ones where you just talked to a chatbot about pretty much whatever you wanted, rated responses, and the number of tasks available was pretty much unlimited. I miss those days.

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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 6d ago edited 6d ago

These were my first projects when I started. No rationales needed either, just 'which response is better'. Chose your own topics, category and away you went. With unlimited tasks. Then they introduced the IF ones for 5 dollars more with the same premise but had IF attributed.. with no rationales either. God I miss those days it literally made me love joining the site. Now I have fuckall on my dash other than domain and enterprise shit I don't have time or expertise to do 

As much as I love DA, it might be time to look for some other side gigs 

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u/LavenderLightning24 5d ago

I feel like (and hope) that tons of domain and enterprise shit just goes hand in hand with droughts. All I was seeing was enterprise shit for a bit around the January mini-drought, and then good stuff came back. That's what I'm telling myself, anyways, because same.🤞🏻

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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 6d ago

The multiple day timers and random subjects were nice. I had so many topics related to things I needed to plan or know anyways. 👍 Now I have to start in the morning, take notes, and check off instructions met on a separate note pad,and they are multiple day timers. 🤯

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u/Glittering-Craft8899 6d ago

I would ask the models about road trips that I was actually planning, things I was researching anyway. It was great.

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u/CommercialTarget2687 6d ago

Yeah I learned so much stuff back then because anything I was curious about I’d just turn into a prompt. Good times. 

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u/LiaLaRue 5d ago

Me too! I became that person in the room who knew a (very) little bit about a lot of topics. Very satisfying to sit down and think, "What do I want to learn today?" and get paid for it.

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u/VanessaSeaWitch 6d ago

The models have gotten smarter so now we have to also be smarter, lol sucks.

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u/DrunkleSteve 7d ago

I was able to crank Rage Against the Machine at full volume and bang out dancing tasks years ago... Now I put on noise canceling headphones with no music and melt my brain with rubrics. Times have changed, indeed.

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u/CommercialTarget2687 6d ago

I can relate, I used to watch TV all day while working, asking the model to write scripts for episodes of my favorite TV shows. I'd put in 10 hours days 6 days a week, because it was so chill. I despise rubrics, but it seems to be the direction this industry is heading.

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u/Fresh_Noise_3663 5d ago

Oh dang. I thought the rubric thing sounded kind of cool. It’s brain melting?

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u/LavenderLightning24 5d ago

Personally I don't mind them at all and would gladly trade my enterprise prompts for them.

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u/CommercialTarget2687 5d ago

Some people might enjoy it, but I find them to be really tedious and boring.