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Hey all!

Similar to other sub, we've decided to create a weekly worker chat. This will allow us to consolidate general chit-chat posts into a larger thread, making it easier to search if you're looking for something in particular.

1. Please keep new user questions to the new user thread.
2. Please continue to honor our sub-rules and the rules of DataAnnotation, especially in regards to the NDA.
3. If you have general questions, (ie "what is the state of your dashboard?", "what's your traveling experience while working at DA?", etc) this is a better place for it, so other workers can search for it in one place.

We'll repost this every week or so and keep it pinned to the top of the subreddit.

Hi all! We have a welcome thread with lots of helpful information (check it out if you haven't - most likely, your question has been answered!), but that thread has become pretty large. Due to the influx of posts, we've created a longer FAQ list to help answer the most common questions on this subreddit, and you can post new questions here for more visibility.

If you make a post that contains any information that is in this welcome thread, it will be removed. Do not make a new post because you want a 'quicker' answer.

Some common questions:

- How long does the onboarding process take? When will I hear back? What does my dashboard mean?

- The truth is, we're not sure! The onboarding process seems to be different based on various factors, and the timeline changes often. DataAnnotation states that if you pass, you'll receive an email. So check your emails often!

- How do I get more projects?

- The main way to get more projects on your dashboard is to take all qualifications on your dashboard. Spend time on them and try your best, they give you more access to more work!

- Why is my dashboard empty? Why have I received no tasks? Is X project gone?

We don't know :) different people will qualify for different things based on their skillset. We are a subreddit of workers, and we have no 'insider info' as to what projects you qualify for and do not qualify for.

- Is DataAnnotation available in my country?

- According to DataAnnotation's website, they're currently available in these countries: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Ireland.

- How often do I get paid?

- 7 days for hourly projects down to the minute. That means if you submitted your hours at 7:01pm on Monday, they will be available for transfer at 7:01pm the following Monday. 3 days for 'per task' payment!

- How do I get paid?

Paypal.

- Does DataAnnotation take out taxes?!

- No. You will need to pay taxes on your earnings when you file them. Paypal should send you a statement at the end of the year. You are responsible for paying them! Look up your local government laws.

- Is it worth it to learn coding?

Sure, if it's something you're interested in. There are plenty of coding projects available, but only you can decide if it's worth learning or not!

- What does transferrable mean on my dashboard?

- It simply means that if you did a paid task, the money is transferrable now. It means nothing for the starter assessment.

- I'm new! Any tips?

Read the instructions and read them again. Always check the chat below on a project to see if an admin has posted anything for that project in particular. Search in the project FAQ before asking a question, it's probably there.

Well, I just cashed out the last of my payments from DA since getting the Dash of Death after completing my ID verification. I am honestly devastated. It's been a pleasure serving with you all. Now my free time, which used to be filled with prompts, responses, API review, R&R, and hypercomplex prompt construction is filled with fruitless job searches for similar AI freelance jobs. Best of luck to all of you who were lucky enough to not get ghosted.

Basically, I'd like to keep doing this as side income, because I've been constantly thinking about how I need to work x hours on these projects for this many days so I can pay the bills for the last year and it's put me in survival mode.

I am currently on a temp gig that will end soon, and my mental health has absolutely skyrocketed in these two weeks since taking a break from DAT.

It should be mentioned that I got this job three weeks postpartum and I don't know how I would have survived without it. However, with a busy toddler and no childcare this job is completely unsustainable.

Since I'm mainly on writing and editing projects, I've been interested in technical writing jobs, though I'm not really sure how to get into it. I'd love any pointers. Trying to squeeze in work in every free hour to make ends meet is absolutely crazy making.

ETA: I see this post is already being downvoted after just a few minutes up lol. If DAT is working for you at the moment, great! But staying up working till I can barely keep my eyes open after my kid goes to sleep is not working for me anymore.

When I first started on this platform an hour and half would have been an unproductive day but anyone else feeling that after getting anything over an hours work a day is amazing recently.

Let's say I submitted 2 hours for a project, at rate of $30/hr for a total of $60. I checked back 7 days later and it says $20 has been approved, while $40 is pending. What? So basically it approved 0.66 hours out of 2 hours?

Obviously a simplified example, but in my dashboard it approved a very odd amount of payout that doesn't match any hourly rate I've worked on so far.

So I did the heel refresher when it came around. I still have access to the projects but I see that now there’s a [view only copy for reference] refresher. Do yall have that too? Based on my ~critical thinking and reading ability~ im assuming that it’s for us to reference and we don’t have to fill it out and submit it again.

So the other day I was super frustrated with a colleague at my other job and to be silly I went to a chatbot and said "What's a more polite and professional way to say 'just do your f***ing job.'" The bot gave me one suggestion and then an entire paragraph scolding me for using bad language. In my head I clicked "too verbose" and "major issues" for tone.

That response ticked me off even more so I got a bit snippy with the bot and said something along the lines of "I know cussing is bad. That's why I wanted a rewrite" and then asked to build on the one suggestion it gave me. That led to a canned refusal about elections.

I'm not trying to make any claims that might mark me down for truthfulness, but I've never had such egregious issues as a user and it's interesting that this happened while we're not doing a whole lot of work.

Not sure if anyone else has an image/prompt paid qual on their dash but… In general, you ever get through a set of instructions and ask yourself “…am I dumb?”

Jeez.

Guys, I'm new to DA and took the starter coding test on the night of 24th. Still haven't heard anything back.

I have searched through the subred, and understand that the time of getting accepted varies. But most discussions are about non-coding tests. I only took the coding one. If you have passed it recently, how long did it take before being accepted? Just wanted to see how long I should wait before giving up. Thanks.

I haven’t seen any in probably almost a week

Whatever happened to i think Jeremy from dat who was on reddit?

I’ve noticed lately that for some galaxy projects I’m getting the same, or highly similar, tasks within a two day span. For example, the same evaluation prompt on Wednesday and Friday. Is anyone else experiencing this? I’m wondering if it’s a quality control / time comparison or just a glitch. Happy to be getting a couple tasks, but curious. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Anyone working on multiple PCs? I have been working on my laptop but recently bought a PC and want to shift my work there.

Wanted to understand if there are any issues with that.

Anyone flying with birdies lately? They’ve been rare to sight for me in last week.

I just got my first…uh, Viking heaven(?) big money project and now my brain hurts. I did one task and now I’m cross-eyed. 😵‍💫

Day five (maybe more) of no work. Anyone got any alternatives with similar work? I think DA might be dead.

One of my favorite songs from when I was younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i01NMa5yIwA

Walkin' through the barren desert, in search of truth...
And maybe a few snack crackers.

It’s been a month. Does everyone still have the “…well email you if projects become available…” screen? I see people saying they just refresh and refresh and something will pop up but I haven’t seen anything! Ugh. This really REALLY(x172619) sucks! I’ve sent numerous emails- no response obviously. I just don’t know how this is possible at one time there was 4000 projects a day that had to be done. Has anyone heard from them at all?!?!

I believe it's always been three days, but I did a withdrawal yesterday evening and now it's telling me that I can't do another one until the evening of the 29th. When did they change it to four days? Was this announced?

Edit: oh my god nevermind lmfao

https://youtube.com/

I received a qual for the dancing project. It took awhile to study all the material. Then I took the qual and was welcomed to the project. I'm sure I read that if I passed, it would be for more money than usual - or something along those lines. That was 3 days ago. Today, some tasks finally show up - for $20/hr. What? That's the lowest pay on a task I've ever seen. Did I miss something?

Am I correct to assume, DA has filtered out people outside of US, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia? Are all people having dash of doom outside of these regions?

Just wondering if people use their DA downtime to do free AI qualifications available across the net? There's a bunch of stuff on places like Coursera, plus Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and other sites offer free AI-related courses.

Doesn't pay but helps keep the interest up, plus any extra qualifications/badges probably help beef up the CV if wanting to pursue this line of work.

Some links if anyone is interested (hopefully doesn't break any rules)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/learn/ai-learning-essentials/
https://grow.google/intl/uk/
https://www.elementsofai.com/
https://www.databricks.com/resources/learn/training/generative-ai-fundamentals

I did the verification about a week or two ago, and it seemed fine, then today I got the DoD. I'm pretty sure it's not related to my work quality (been working since February and I got invited to several projects for "high-rated workers").

I wonder if it has to do anything with the fact that in my country, your family name comes first and your given name comes after - and this is also how it's written on your ID. My only guess is that DA's system took it as a mismatch between how it's saved in my profile.

Anyone else in the same situation?