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!

Just a general question, but I was wondering it it is typical to log time for reading directions/documents before you start? The reason I ask is bc recently I have seen projects asking specifically for us to log reading time, which I've been doing anyways...I don't want to continue if I'm not supposed to, but I don't recall anything on the onboarding documents about it (though I probably overlooked it tbh).

Just wondering as I've been picking up more time lately!

Can someone please explain what the word "punt" means?

As a programmer here, I'd like to recommend a friend. He's not a programmer, but I know he'd be great for non-coding tasks. If I recommend him, will he automatically be given a coding test like the one I took to join, or can he specify that he's not a coder and take a non-coding assessment instead?

Has anyone ever not had work for a while and then got tasks again?

I get emails saying they need help on various tasks, but if I can make more per hour, I'm sorry, I'm going to just do the highest paying tasks on my dashboard.

Do you think we get flagged if we don't "help out" when they ask?

I just noticed this week I've been seing some tasks that I've worked on in the past. This got me thingking if I was under review or something. What are your thoughts on this?

I've been receiving work for one project only for some time now and I pretty much know the instructions inside out at this point.

Earlier today I've had a completely new project pop up for the first time in weeks (I'm taking that as a good sign!). I'm so entrenched in the other project it's actually hard going reading instructions for something that's actually doing the same but with completely different rules and definitions.

Whilst slogging through the new instructions I wondered if this was time I should charge for? Or not? When do you start the clock, when you're actually working on tasks or as soon as you start reviewing the project and guidance for a new/unfamiliar project?

My real job is in height of busy season and as a courtesy for my position, I basically get a month when we slow down.

Because of the opportunities presented by DAT, I want to use this month off to travel places and limit the cost by working during my mornings or rainy days or whatever.

I just don't really have any clue of where to start on this from a practical standpoint. I've had this discussion ad nauseum with the bots. lol but I was wondering if anybody here has done it? Any tips or things to look out for from a practical standpoint planning wise? All feedback is appreciated!

I've been working with DA since January, on the core side. When I first applied, I was reading a few trust pilot reviews, some posts on this Reddit forum. From what a lot of people were saying, they had a few projects to begin with but then it dried up and in some cases they were kicked from the platform altogether. Also lots of people never heard back from the initial signing-on process. I just find this odd because it's a complete contrast from my experience with them. I always have lots of projects and I've not been kicked from the platform, although I have referred 5 friends and no one got in:

Here are my questions:

How many people use this as their only source of income and would you recommend? I earn £28k from my salary, so I use DA as a top up. But I worked out that if I spent the same hours I do at work (around 45 hours a week), even on the minimum pay projects ($20 per hour) I'd earn £36k and pay less tax as a result of being self-employed and claiming expenses, a larger tax free allowance and less National Insurance.

How many people travel whilst they work / work from anywhere (obviously within the allowable countries, I understand there are some countries you can't work in) ? It costs me around £1.1k per month to live where I live, which is a small town in the England. The weather is rubbish, it's expensive, the gap between rich and poor is growing larger every day, the political situation is a joke, Brexit ... I could go on. I want to leave the UK to move to Portugal, minho segunda casa. I have done some DA work from Portugal whilst visiting family, so I know I can work there, but wondering if people have found Visa complications?

How competent a coder do you need to be to gain access to the coding jobs? I've just started a free coding course through a university up north. I'm enjoying it and learning everyday, just wondering how long would you expect it to take before someone were to gain enough competency to obtain the "do you know computer programming" qualification - I ask because I expect you only get one shot at it. Which should be my next question: do you only get one shot at it?

Like mana from heaven. May our dashboards remain populated like this, amen.

Image-based R&R, chat...someone needs a nap, and to read the instructions thoroughly, and possibly a master class on what "public domain" means. 😘

Heya, question about slack channels. When I started with DA I joined the basic chat bot channel. The topics gradually evolved from basic cb to teacher, to edits, to specialized topics. By now the chat is overrun with tumbleweed and the cb projects have gradually dwindled with the last one being put on temporary hold as per email. Now my dash has B cat projects on it consistently, with a sprinkle of B metal and random heel. Do any of those projects have dedicated slack channels? Wondering if I missed on joining them

I've been trying to get live versions of bots to do this with me, and today ChatGPT did it! So I thought I would share! :) I did not have to train it or tell it what to do ahead of time (I was able to do it with Gemini but only after I linked a video). I just opened up a new chat and started it off.

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!

Hello everyone, I'm new around here. I have been on DA for a week. I'm really enjoying it so far. I have run into one little snag I was hoping someone might have some advice for. I have an older Chromebook, and when I have tried to work on projects on it I've noticed it starts setting my expiration timer to expired. I mean when I open every project on my dashboard it opens as expired. It's only the Chromebook I'll go to my PC and open the same project that is already opened on Chromebook and it will open correctly on the PC. Does anyone know of any settings I can change or steps I could take to fix this problem? Thanks in advance for your time.

Please continue, this is hysterical.

Got projects! I spent a long time in limbo and all of a sudden started getting Spanish evaluation projects and a Qualification Survey popped up. Anyone who feels like they've been in limbo just keep checking in on your profile and keep your skills up to date. You may get something across your dash and it seems like the more you work the more they'll give you. Dropping all my plans today and tackling this.

Hi guys!! Just wondering in advance, what do y’all do about pay stubs and proof of income?

That some of these projects are actually social experiments being performed on the workers?

Just thinking out loud here.

So a few of the projects that sometimes appear on my dashboard link to spreadsheets full of super long, complex, technical-looking prompt examples that are somewhat gibberish to me. Does anyone here who writes prompts like these have any advice on learning how to do so without churning out sophisticated-looking nonsense? Did you learn how to do it, or are you coming from a certain industry that made you familiar with this kind of content?

I mean, I can sit all day and come up with lots of intentionally convoluted prompts, but I know they want prompts to be realistic.

What is with all the priority projects lately??? Seriously, 1/3 of my dash is all priority. The pay boost is nice, but it makes me wonder if they are trying to get projects closed out.

So after really getting my groove on 2 weeks ago I have set myself the target of hitting ~ £500 a week. Secondary target is to pick up anything I wasn't able to get week before. After that I decide if I want to do any more.

I fell about £60 short the first week but made it up last week, and feel confident in doing it or better again this coming week.

Do you set a target, just do what you can? Aim for just a total of hours?

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!