Permanent platform ban after Aether onboarding 🥀
1.5 years of high quality work, promoted to reviewer (and senior reviewer) on both of my active language projects, Oracle status for half my time on Outlier.
After 3 months of tumbleweeds, I decided to give Aether a try, even though I've heard nothing but bad things about it. Lo and behold, after editing the transcript meticulously with not a whit of cheating, I was met with an empty dashboard and a lost community access.
Support chatbot has claimed - 2 minutes after my ban - that there has ben a thorough two level review by a human, which is simply impossible, considering I got banned right as I pressed "Submit".
The most annoying thing is the fact that I lost my Oracle status due to inactivity exactly a week before getting banned, so now support is back to sending canned answers with no regard to me.
I have asked a QM from my previous project to contact admins on my behalf, which she very kindly did. Still, I am not feeling very hopeful.
Let this be a lesson for everyone to NOT dip your toes into Aether if you have any other projects on the horizon. And that we are but worker ants to these platforms, and they can discard us at any time with 0 regard for our track record of good, honest work.