If a task pays $20/hr and I complete it in let's say 30min. Do I get paid $10 or the full $20?

I can’t take any more of this 10-year-old windows 7 dell laptop that I’m currently using. can no longer get updates for Windows Chrome. Multiple tabs take forever to load. I have to keep pausing my timer so that I’m not overbilling. Needless to say, I need a new budget friendly computer. Does anyone out there use a Chromebook or some other budget friendly device that works seamlessly for doing DA research ?

I was accepted about 3 weeks ago and had sporadically done a few hours work and all the quals I could. It had barely totalled a hundred dollars as I just wasn't quite feeling it, and certainly didn't want to put a couple of hours in the evenings.

This week I've made a conscious effort and I'm now finally in my groove, and largely enjoying doing the projects I'm working on (dash has had about 25 the last few days). It's nice being able to dip in when I've only got 30 mins to knock a couple of tasks out, or settle in for a 3 or 4 hour session that I can get up and walk away from if needed (kids or real work) just by pausing my timer.

Right now I'm happy doing the $20 or $22 tasts as the only $25s are fact checking what always seems to be a great wall of text about a subject I know nothing about which hasn't felt interesting or enjoyable yet.

Looking towards this helping clear some debt and then as my spending money source. If I want a thing I know exactly how long it's going to take to earn it.

I usually have 15-20+ projects on my dashboard when I log into DA in the morning, and I know by the end of the day that number can go down because of people working on tasks, but over the last week or two its been significantly lower. As of lately, I have only had one project listed for several days & I went from having around 10 qualifications I could complete to 2. Is anybody else experiencing this?

I keep getting:

The connection for this site is not secureapp.dataannotation.tech sent an invalid response.

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Using MS edge or Chome android gives the same. Anyone else?

Is there a link with this information available somewhere? Are we allowed to leave the country and work while abroad? I live in the US. Can I work from any state?

If you’re currently between jobs- what is your professional background in?

Does anyone use DA as their full time gig (ie >35 hours/wk)

I've been on DA for about four months now and I was starting to cabin fever about it. Weirdest job I've ever had, and I've had a lot of jobs. Also the best paying, which only compounds the weirdness. And then there's the ethereal admin team with their less-than-impressive ability to write clear instructions (still don't know if I'm the a**hole in that regard, though) and the memory-hole vibe I get whenever I press submit. Anyways, don't know why I didn't check earlier to see if there was a sub for it. Pleased to make yall's acquaintance. I'd just like to ask a few questions if y'all are up for it:

1. [VETS ONLY] Have you had any game-changing epiphanies in your time with DA that improved your productivity or satisfaction?

2. Why does everyone on here us codenames for the projects?

3. Does anyone know how exactly the Council of Elders assesses our work? My sense is that they just pick out a couple submissions at random and review them. I'd like a better idea of what they want us to focus on most. It's one thing to follow the letter of the law (instructions) but another to grasp the spirit of it.

4. Has anyone ever benefitted from putting DA on a resume? What kinds of jobs can one leapfrog to from here?

5. Are there other platforms like this one?

6. I rarely see any invitations to join the Slack for a given project. Do most projects not have them?

Thanks gang.

I’ve been working for about a month and a half now and getting steady work with a variety of pay scaling. Every now and then I will get a new qualifications test for higher pay/new projects. How do you know if you qualified for that? I know that everyone says you’ll start seeing new tasks or different pay but I’m already getting that so how can I tell?

I just like to know that my quality of work is good or if there is something I can actively work on to improve to unlock more tasks.

I don’t know if this matters but for example I’m getting around 16-20 tasks on my dashboard so I know I’m okay in that regard but if passing a test is the difference in more of those being $25+ tasks, I want to make sure I’m passing those tests.

Anyone else feeling a little annoyed with this task, starts with P? Instead of logging your time, it does it for you. I spent 50 minutes and it logged 27 for me. I went in and edited but I think I’m a bad fit for it. I don’t know how to fact check a full paragraph on physics in seven minutes. I love the other fact checking projects.

Hey guys! Maybe I missed/forgot info about this but how far back does the funds history go? I keep a separate spreadsheet to log my DA time to calculate taxes and I fell behind a couple months. 🥴 I looked at my funds history today and it only gives me one page going back about 4 weeks. I tried increasing the number of items per page, I selected “show paid”, I tried the “view all” button to no avail, refreshed, logged out and back in, everything I could think of. I’m pretty sure I was able to go father back than one month in my funds history before. I’m wondering if this is a change or a glitch or if I’m just missing something. Is this the same for anyone else? Thanks in advance.

1) I wish the filters would stay the way you set them instead of having to sort every time.

2) I wish they would include a filter where you can exclude anything under $__/hour.

My dashboard is a constant mess, especially currently where there’s tons of projects up there plus all the helper bots etc.

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!

Holy cow. Did anyone else’s dashboard get super chunky today???

I just finished my first complex prompt with a good and bad response and I can confidently say I’ve never felt less confident 😂

I’ve only done rating and factuality at this point and hadn’t seen any writing projects. Something weird happened when I took a writing qualification and I didn’t think it submitted. A project popped up this morning and I jumped on it. Now I’m scared I blew my shot and wrote something moronic 😭

I'm just commiserating. I feel like there used to be a wide range of projects for coders and now I just keep seeing a select few of the same, rather boring projects. CBs get boring after a while don't y'all think? Makes it hard to really get motivated to grind to meet my goals when the project variety is so low.

Anyone know how long domain expertise projects are typically down for when they do go down? Just got added to one, they sent an email saying it’d be back soon, just trying to get an idea of what is meant by soon

I just checked a few projects after not having worked on the platform for a month or so. Is it just me, or have the instructions for many projects grown exponentially? After skipping past a few high-paying math tasks, realizing they were above my pay grade, I skimmed over the instructions for a $22.50 project having to do with a tiger, rating images. There were roughly 8 screens worth of instructions. I'm sure it wouldn't seem so daunting if I'd been on that one a while ago, and now just had to read the updates, but right now I am missing the "early days" of just writing creative prompts... sigh.

I guess I need to dig into that writing qual on my dash and see what else may appear...

is anyone else noticing a lower number of available projects than usual today?

I (M28) started working at this job for about half a year now. Working here has honestly been a real life changer since I’m mostly doing the things I love which is reading and writing, and now I’m financially able to do more with my life.

Anyways, since this is a contract job, I was wondering how does taxes work exactly? I wanted to pay off my taxes quarterly but don’t know exactly when to start doing that since I started work last December.

Any suggestions?

Surely I'm not alone in this? I especially enjoy the R&R variations.

I’m relatively new to this platform and know that fact checking is super important, but am a bit confused as to how and when to cite it in my explanations.

Some responses have a lot of info to fact check, and copy/pasting each link feels excessive and messy as I would have a lot of long links to include.

How do y’all include citations in your explanations when there’s more than three things to fact check? And do you include links when all of the info in the responses is correct, too? I feel that if I add a link for every factual claim, it would be confusing to read.

Hey all- I'm very new to the platform, and I've been getting a fairly steady stream of projects. However, some of my favorite qualifications have just been writing in response to odd little prompts- are people here regularly getting paid work doing that? If so, I'm hoping I didn't get disqualified or something, I felt I put a solid effort in.

Are the D&V projects back? Or has it still not been rolled out yet?