Anyone have suggestions to get thru more than 30 minutes of the Sentiment hits?

I forgot what this method is called but it's what I use when I'm doing uber boring work.

Set a timer and work for 10 minutes, then take a really short (3 minutes or less) break. Pee, get a drink, smoke a cigarette. Repeat for 1 hour, then take a longer break. Seems to cut down on the monotony, and usually during my longer break I search for something better.

 

I've been doing something similar to this. After the monotony started setting in for me, I started doing them ten at time before a short break. Thinking of it as $2.10 per 10 as opposed to .21 for 1 helps me get through them for some reason.

 

Yeah. I find when on extremely boring tasks, in between them, I stop and look for something better for a minute or two. Seems to help a little bit in keeping me on the task rather than a few hours straight on it and wondering what I missed.

 

Music! Music! Music! and make sure it's LOUD!!!!!!! That way you can stay awake! lol

 

I like this idea! I try to do them until I get a captcha but sometimes that takes for-ev-er. 10 is doable, plus it's a nice round number for my mild OCD.

 

Which ones are you doing? I'd like to see what they are about.

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. I am still a noob so I don't meet the min requirements.

 

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HAHAHAHAHA! You should see my bookshelves and DVD collections, they are so alphabetical my children are not even allowed in the same room with them. I'm dying laughing right now, thank you! Lmfao

 

I'm having the opposite problem right now. I've hit a run of articles that are actually interesting, so I'm reading 'em. Just as I learned to do them in 90 to 120 seconds. Bring back those damned boring Apple hits CS!!! FML

 

ha! I'm new here and it's funny to see that other mturkers do similar things to "get through" (esp bootybitch). (just new to forum btw. I've been on Mturk awhile... past 5k anyway)


Yes, I do the 10 minute timer, or waiting for the next captcha (cracked me up to see I'm not the only one).


With the sentiment hits, I've been doing 3 (or 5) at a time and timing myself. Then I write it down. Not just going for speed, bc accuracy is important, but I like to see stats on how long things take.
Spices things up for me, but probably wouldn't for most people.

 

schlep -ha it's cool. I genuinely read a good percentage of them. I admit I've bookmarked one or two to go back to later

 

I've been finding myself reading a lot of them lately, and it's slowed me down. I work for one of the companys that they're asking about in some of them, so I always end up wasting 5 minutes reading those ones haha

 

I go through sets of 50 at a time. Hopefully they stick around next week.

 

I hope so. They've got to run out eventually, but there's been 2 or 3 times that they've gotten down to 1,000 left and I thought they were almost done... then they shot right back up to 10,000 hits.

 

Yea, I noticed that too. If they stick around next week, I'll definitely have a great turking week.

 

Here is one method I've been using today:

I constantly have one of these HITs open, but I don't do the whole thing then submit. I might do one of the 3 judgments, then in another tab I work a few other hits, go back to the sentiment and do the 2nd judgment, then do a few other hits, then go back and finish and submit... then open up another one, and do the same.

These HITs have a 15 minute timer so you can leave it open and gradually work on them as you do some other HITs. This keeps me from getting too bored, and it feels like you're not even putting in that much effort on them. Not sure if this makes sense the way I'm describing it, but it works for me.

 

No advice, but you have my sympathy. I find these gawd-awfully boring to the point of intolerance,too.

 

Yes they're boring, but that's why they pay 21 cents.

 

Yeah, I guess so.