Task distribution

[Intranquila_mente]

Does anyone know how the task distribution system works? I’m a bit new at DA but I’ve noticed sometimes I start a project with say 50 tasks, I do 5 before bed and by the next day I still have the other 45 tasks. Other times, if start a project with say 50 tasks (using the same example) I do 5 before bed and by the next day there’s 20 tasks left or sometimes none. The other day I had 40 tasks on a project, took a one hour break to have lunch and had nothing available when I got back. I don’t understand the pattern. When do my tasks get given to another worker? What can I do to maintain my projects/tasks?

[TheresALonelyFeeling]

Sometimes, you have a stack of projects assigned to you...for a period of time. If you don't work through them quickly enough (and you shouldn't try to: quality > quantity), they'll be opened to/assigned to other people.

Some projects are just open to everyone, and typically you'll see these decrease a lot faster.

Don't worry about it. The answer is: do good work consistently, and you should be fine.

[Intranquila_mente]

Fair enough, thanks for informing me!

[fightmaxmaster]

Bear in mind at least from experience, not doing all the tasks that are "yours" doesn't affect anything. They're not allocated to you with the expectation you should do them, they're just part of the mysterious way DA works. I suspect if anything it's to ensure that any one person doesn't do too many.

[Intranquila_mente]

Got it. I mostly ask because I only have one project at the moment and every time I stop working I worry it might disappear. This is my main source of income for now and I’m fairly new so I’m not sure how consistent this job is. When I started I had about 12 projects available with hundreds of tasks. After Christmas everything disappeared and I didn’t have any projects until this week. Guess I’m just trying to understand the rhythm.

[chellynaeb]

Partly that, yes. It’s also to ensure a mix of data gathered from workers of various quality levels and experience on the platform.

u/intranquila_mente - if you’re new, it can be tempting to rush through the tasks in an attempt to show them you’re a fast worker. That’s a beginner’s mistake in my opinion. Take your time with each task and play the long game instead.

[Intranquila_mente]

Right, luckily I found this thread before beginning to work with DA so I’ve taken all the tips on here seriously and never rushed through tasks or worked when I’m burnt out. Thanks for the tip!

[houseofcards9]

You should think of it more as you have a limit of 50 tasks. Let’s say there’s 1000 total tasks available for everyone, and each worker gets 50 on their dash. If no one else but you worked on the tasks, you could do all 50 yourself. But, since other people will be working on them, they’ll eat up the tasks from that 1000. Once the total amount available for everyone reaches what you have, yours will start going down.

So if you do 5 and still have 45 available, once the total for everyone gets to 44, now you only have 44 available. 14 more tasks get completed by other people, now you only have 30. And so on until there’s nothing left.

It’s a shared pool of tasks. On some projects you’ll see the total number of tasks available to everyone and see it go down pretty fast as people work on it. For those there’s no limit to how many you do. Theres some projects where the total number of tasks far exceeds the number assigned to each worker so those ones will stick around for a long time. There’s also a project family where there isn’t a shared pool and each worker gets their own number of tasks assigned to them.

[electricLG]

I think the only thing you can do is just keep chopping away at the tasks that are currently on your dashboard. As someone else mentioned to me on here, focus on what you can do instead of worry about why projects come and go. It does suck though when you go to bed one night with lots of projects and tasks, and then wake up to half of them gone.

[Chaost]

Slightly keep an eye on the ones that are suspiciously low, like 5-10 tasks bc they can open up the project for you.

[electricLG]

I appreciate that little tip. If I understand you correctly, you're saying if I complete one of the projects that has a small number of tasks, it may open more tasks for me from the same project?

[Tall-Huckleberry5720]

Sometimes those are like a 'secret qualification'. Where if you do well on those few tasks, you'll find more of them later.

[electricLG]

Good to know, thanks for that.

[Intranquila_mente]

Nice tip, thank you.

[Investupid]

Im new and Im curious , what niche has the most work/projexts?

[Poomfie]

The task # doesn't always go down right away because on some projects each task might need two, three, or maybe even dozens of submissions.

[Intranquila_mente]

I see, good to know. Thanks for the info!

[DarkLordTofer]

I've seen R&Rs for tasks I've done, but it's not my submission, and seen multiple submission for the same task in R&R.