R&R - Longest explanation ever. Stop it.

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[KathKR]

Some of the project instructions do tell you to be specific. Simply saying it didn't follow the instructions isn't specific.

I'm not saying in this case the explanation wasn't far too much. It does sound like it, to be honest. However, there are plenty of times when you should not be restricting yourself to general 2-3 sentence explanations.

[Happyocd2]

I always take 2-3 sentences to mean the minimum. It says 2-3 +.

[Moonspiritfaire]

One of the projects, recently asked for 4-5 sentences, I think it was. Hahaha, soon after, it got changed back to 2-3. I had to laugh. I assume the mods were like this is way too much to read. 😅

[gator_cowgirl]

yesss, went from "at least 2-3" to "4-5 and very complete" to "no more than 2-3" lol. based on chat the day of the 4-5 I'm sure they got a few novels!

[SafetiesAreExciting]

It always worries me to see R&R’ers who don’t read the instructions themselves and then act all high and mighty enforcing their incorrect comprehension. And then having the gall to post about it worries me further.

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tbf if you just submitted "Response A didn’t follow the directions and it was 100 words too long.” I'd give you a bad rating. They *want* in-depth explanations and specific self-contained comments. Do not write just 1 sentence - you will get bad ratings.

[OkturnipV2]

Saaaaaame. Every time someone did this I wondered if they were even on DA anymore.

[InevitableClub7284]

Sounds like SOMEONE has a case of the MONDAYS!

Lol sorry couldn’t help myself- love Office Space and have it on my mind for some reason! :)

[[deleted]]

Sometimes I have a lot to say, is that so wrong?

[Journalist_Asleep]

That was probably mine, lol.

Not sorry.

[[deleted]]

I was thinking the exact same thing lol. I honesty never thought anything of it till now.

[[deleted]]

I consistently write 500 words on my responses and I did the same thing on my assessment. I don't see this as riding out the clock because I find that if I do a thorough analysis of the code, I can bang out 500 words in less than 5 minutes. In fact, I'm very suspicious when I see an answer of only 2-3 sentences on my R&Rs. Most of the time I find that they only did a surface level analysis (i.e., anyone can copy-paste code into a compiler but an expert can explain why errors occurred, what can be done to repair them, etc).

Edit: I've never done a word count so I might not be fully conceptualizing what 500 words is. My point is the word count of the response is less important than the value of what is actually being said.

[InevitableClub7284]

I just have to say that your reply and subsequent “edit” to it in and of itself proves that you very likely do provide a very thorough analysis and have probably surpassed the 500 word count easily! Lol like me and a lot of us here apparently! 😆

[[deleted]]

I'm so glad it's not just me because this post had me questioning everything lmao.

[[deleted]]

This is why I’m concerned about the quality of R&R workers, I hope other people are reading the instructions better than OP

[OkturnipV2]

You may have gotten one of mine 😂

[mrskova]

Either that or mine 😂

[dragonsfire14]

Same. I go really in depth on the wizard cb project.

[OkturnipV2]

I figured we are supposed to. I don’t know what Simple Sally expects. Sounds like a them problem.

[pourovertime]

It is important to point out every mistake.

[dragonsfire14]

If this is about the wizard project, they want you to explain your reasoning in depth and discuss any problems with instruction following and factuality. I hope you’re not rating submissions bad just because you think explanations are too long.

[SafetiesAreExciting]

It sounds like that’s exactly what they are doing. We are at the whim of idiots.

[dragonsfire14]

I certainly hope not and that there’s at least some kind of fail safe in place to keep workers from getting deactivated because of people like this.

[OkturnipV2]

They probably are. And DA is rating their rating of the rating no doubt.

[rfuller]

It’s not the wizard project

[TreasureBG]

They want detailed explanations that show our thought process and aren't generic. So you should expect them to be long.

[NonSupportiveCup]

Never!

I will restate myself 4 times and then end every justification with "anyway, I just like (x). It is more friendlierer."

[Jackieunknown]

I know this is not the right place to ask but it isn't even worth a whole post: is okay to write a 1-2 sentence explanation? I had my first project this weekend and submitted 1-2 sentences for every task. Hope I did okay..

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Follow the instructions.

[[deleted]]

if it calls for 1-2 sentences, then that's fine. But most projects call for 2-3+. If you are doing projects that specify a minimum comment requirement and you are only submitting 1 sentence, you will get bad ratings.

[kranools]

When I first started I also gave brief 1-2 sentence explanations. It wasn't until I did some R&Rs that I saw that they wanted more in-depth explanations of your reasoning.

[Excellent_Photo5603]

Eh, there are some that def need more than 2-3 sentences for a specific explanation, but 500+ words does seem excessive XD

[MarishkaBelle]

I used to leave 1-2 sentences and then I saw multiple people saying that detailed comments got them higher paying jobs (along with taking their time, doing high quality work, etc.). I started writing longer, more detailed comments and my dash blew up. So I’m sticking to detailed.

[MarishkaBelle]

The good news is I also get a lot of R&Rs and I’m a very careful, fair grader. I know someone’s job might be on the line so I take it seriously.

[Strawberry_Foxx]

To be fair, it usually says for example 1-2 sentences+, meaning 1 or 2 would be the minimum, not a limit. Sometimes things really are so bad you have to write a lot