You’re overthinking it. I have had a similar experience. The worst were the “stop light” questions. Does it mean the pole, the light, the tiny corner overlapping another square? I used to try to include everything as it was technically true. Very frustrating – until I finally started to not care. Click on the most obvious pictures. Click click click. Done. Get it wrong? Click click click on the next one. Way faster with a much better success rate doing so. It usually only takes a couple of tries now.
Maybe a cultural thing? For me, "you're over thinking it" is a familiar/friendly way of expressing an idea, similar to how you would approach a friend. It was not intended to be dismissive.
you are right. it is a cultural thing. that being said, the advice is sound. the internet is a mishmash of cultures :)
if i would bring my culture to the internet, everyone would think i'm troll or horrible person. just because ppl from my culture are a bit direct and cynical :D if you'd like people to respect and take into account your culture it's good to do vice versa.
That would only work if everyone who got the same image gave the same wrong answer. Otherwise, the system just keeps sending the same image to more random people until it's satisfied with the consensus. Also, it keeps sending YOU more random images if you obviously don't comply with previously observed consensus.
