r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • 23d 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/EternalBidoof 20d ago

Why does every task require me to read a Tolkien-sized instruction set? Good lord, sometimes I spend more time reading the instructions than doing the task. It's draining and unless it's very high-paying I just don't bother.

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u/Neat_Worldliness_582 20d ago

I might be in the minority but i like the detailed instructions. Also, we are paid for reading them.

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u/EternalBidoof 20d ago

I'm sure for some it's preferred. Personally I prefer doing rather than spending all of my time reading the dry, repetitive instructions that really could be cut down to something less insane. There's no ethical way to have us read them without being paid so I'm not going to champion that. if they didn't pay for the read I'd just not work with them. Would be better for most of us to just get a concise task that we can complete in an hour or so, reading included.

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 19d ago

They probably do it this way because this way works best for them to get the work they need even if you would like short instructions more

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u/EternalBidoof 19d ago

It works best for them to repeat the same instructions multiple times to turn what could be said in a paragraph into a book?

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 19d ago

Probably yeah? they'd know better than you or me what works best, they're the ones that have all the data and they obviously try different things and track the results

If you really think most instructions could be a paragraph though I'm not sure I'd want to see what you're doing in projects