My Outlier Aether experience: account restored after an error, then removed again two days later without any explanation

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share my experience and see if anyone has gone through something similar.

I joined the Aether project and put a lot of effort into every task. I usually spent 30 to 60 minutes reviewing each conversation because I genuinely wanted to produce high-quality work.

A while ago, my account was suddenly restricted. After contacting Outlier Support, they confirmed that the restriction had been applied by mistake and restored my access to the project.

I thought everything was resolved, so I continued working as usual.

However, only two days after my account was restored, I received another email saying I was no longer eligible for the Aether project.

What confuses me is that:

• My quality score was above 3.7.
• The majority of my reviews were Exceptional, with several Good and Acceptable ratings.
• I only had a few Unacceptable reviews, and in some of those cases I strongly believed the QA feedback was incorrect or lacked sufficient explanation.
• Whenever I asked for clarification or wanted to dispute a review, I was told that Aether currently does not support review disputes.

I completely understand that projects have evolving requirements and contributors can be removed for different reasons.

What I'm struggling with is the lack of transparency. I still don't know whether the decision was related to:

• quality,
• project capacity,
• eligibility,
• or something else entirely.

Has anyone experienced something similar, especially after having their account restored due to a confirmed support error?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences.

Thanks!