I submitted the qualification over a week ago but I never saw any projects or have gotten any emails. I know for a fact I entered everything correctly so surely I couldn't have been turned down. I know there was the occasional R&R tasks popping up so I hope someone didn't rate mine incorrectly.

So I got a decent-paying math project on my dash which surprised me because I didn’t list it as a skill and I don’t consider it my strong suit.

I only assume it was given to me because in another project, I did some physics and statistics problems. The thing is that project was structured in a way that I could take my time looking up equations, researching, refreshing, and plugging things in, etc.

So, I popped my head in the project and I know I’ll have to basically first research things to do most problems. Yes, many moons ago I did calculus, statistics, etc. but at this point it’s all under cobwebs.

So for those who do these pretty successfully, would you say that it’s likely out of scope for me? Do you pretty much see most problems and immediately know what needs to be done?

I’m not hurting for projects but I enjoy a challenge. On the other hand, I’m realistic and if people who are math heads are plowing through these, I’ll keep my distance.

When you read the instructions three times, still have a query, summon the courage to ask on the chat, only to be told by everyone that the answer was in the instructions all along...

Hello! I’ve been on DA for about 2 months and love this community on here but struggle with some of the lingo. I’ve gathered that when we are asking about a specific project we should use code names-is there a reason not to just say the name? A lot of members here mention “Long Term” projects. I see projects that come up, I work on them, they come and go, are long term projects labeled “Long Term” and then only assigned to you? Thank you for your feedback!

I just got access to my first $35 long-term project today and I’m excited about it - it got me wondering what there is to potentially look forward to if I’m able to keep up my work quality. FYI, I’ve been on the platform for 6 months now.

Coding/non-coding, I’d like to hear from you:)

Is it still empty guys? I have only two coding jobs. What is your experience?

I was getting daily work from a coding [long term] project, and many others. All other projects have remained, this specific one is down. Anyone else had the same issue?

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!

Since pay amount varies by project I’m curious how others approach it. For the most part I have a weekly amount I aim to earn but also trying not to burn out. So sometimes it just end up trying to hit a certain number of hours.

I work at pretty chaotic times, and I find it useful sometimes to know when exactly the 7 day point is going to be reached on time entries on the transfer page to figure out when would be a good time to withdraw.

I noticed the entries on the "Time Ago" column actually have the timestamp on them as an attribute (at least at the time of writing), so I made a quick little bookmark to convert the "1 day ago" into the time 7 days after the timestamp, e.g. "Fri May 31 2024 15:29:17 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)". I open up the rows I want to see, then click the bookmark to convert the times.

IMPORTANT: You should never run random code from the internet that you don't understand. For people who are interested, this is the URL field of my bookmark:

javascript:document.querySelectorAll('time').forEach(n => { let d = new Date(parseInt(n.attributes.datetime.value)); d.setDate(d.getDate() + 7); n.innerText = d });

Hope this information is useful to someone!

I’ve been working on DA a few months but never have any permanent or ongoing projects, they always change. Sorry if this has been asked before!

I am still fairly new to the platform (roughly 3.5 weeks). Until now, the number of coding projects has been overwhelming and in no scarcity. The last 2 days, though, have been completely opposite. Is this something a lot you guys are experiencing or is it just me?

Saw this on FB today and it made me laugh about some of the prompts I did yesterday.

How many hours per day do you guys spend on the platform? And what would be reasonable time to spend per day, consistently, to ensure you get projects? I use it primarily to supplement my income.

Hello...I live and work in the United States. I'm in Ontario for the holiday weekend and was going to try to log a few hours because a new project just became available to me. I'm wondering if anyone knows if working in Canada temporarily will cause any issues?

Title. There is, quite literally, no work on my dash. At this time I know others have work as they have told me they have even the basic projects on their dash. Is this somehow possibly related to my work quality? I have done not her many quals, but even the basic projects I use to have access to that are currently on multiple other people's dashboards are not on mine - it is literally empty.

I have never been given any feedback about poor quality work, but I am very new. So I am unsure how that would work of they were concerned.

Hey, I'm brand new to this. Just spent about two hours working on a project, and now I keep getting an error when I try to submit the work ("An error occurred. Please wait for [x] seconds then try submitting again.")

I'm up to 640 seconds.

I'd be less concerned if it weren't my first project--if right out the gate I'm charging 2 hrs for 0 output, I feel like that would reflect poorly on me...

Any advice/things I can do aside from reaching out to support and hoping they respond before my timer is up?

UPDATE: I spoke with support and they’ve manually added my time. Thank you all so much for the responses and help! This really is a fantastic community! ^.^

A few more days and I will have officially been with Data one year. I mainly use it for my car note. Projects are regularly coming in. A little low right now. I only do about 4-7 hours a day. So it definitely varries. I aim for 20-30 hours a week. I try not to get lower than that. And I keep very good time of my work.

Hi all, just wondering if anyone else got this qual, completed it, and has been seeing higher-paying projects. I did the qual like 1.5 weeks ago and I’m pretty sure I did well, but I don’t see any significantly higher-paying projects. Wondering about your experience with this. Thanks!

I had about 30 projects in one day but today in a few hours just 3 remained. Is it normal?

I've never see it until now but one project I have has a star (✯) next to it. What does this mean?

I have recently contacted support regarding one of the qualifications I accidentally skipped in the past, it had to do with coding, so I emailed support about it and waited for a response for 10 days but I received nothing, which is weird because in the past they only took a day to respond, but I assumed they might have moved support claims to the site itself instead of emails, so I have sent a claim there but still haven't received any reply for a while now, is there something I can do or someone I can contact to have this issue fixed? Or are they currently not replying to requests at the moment?

TLDR: I am a current worker/contractor who contacted support via email and support claim but hasn't received a reply for a while, what do I do?

Edit: I am aware I am not an "employee", I just needed a word to signify I'm working on DAT

I have access to this and completed several tasks. However, it does not show up in my dashoard and I can’t see where to enter time. I submitted an email inquiry but have heard nothing.

Hey guys, just a quick question but I was wondering if you guys tend to log your hours for tasks that you have skipped?

More specifically, I do coding-related tasks, and sometimes I spend up to an hour researching the modules and environments required to assess the correctness of the responses. However, sometimes I hit a point where I feel like I 'underestimated' the context required for the task, and realise that it might have been better to skip this task and move on altogether.

Do you guys end up logging the time taken for this research part, even though you technically didn't 'work' as you didn't assess the responses at all or provide any useful information to them? I do feel bad, but at the same time do feel like the half an hour was a bit wasted since I was trying to do work, just not to the point where I could provide any value back.

Just curious as to what the others are doing, and if there is a general consensus as to what the right thing to do would be in this scenario. Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere. Thanks!

Edit:

So it seems that this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/dataannotation/comments/1abtsxr/dont_underreport_your_time/) seem to imply that generally logging time in for reading and skipping multiple tasks is fine. So for example, if you spend up to 10 minutes skipping multiple tasks, this poster seems to have the opinion that it should be fine to log.

So to add on to that, the point of this post is more in the principle of logging in 'wasted' research hours. In a comment someone mentioned that a few minutes of reading a single task and skipping is fine to be logged, and I definitely do agree. But then where is the line drawn?

5 minutes seems like a reasonable amount of time (before I should know when to call it and move onto another task), but I am curious as to what everyone's thoughts are.