I've tried to do some hits this morning, but I've had no luck. They seem to be having severe technical difficulties. Has anyone noticed the same images coming around since earlier this week? I wonder if perhaps they're just throwing the same hits up over and over just to get the quirks worked out before they start processing real hits. Another reason I say this is because a lot of the businesses and areas of town I've seen so far are not really good candidates for people really looking them up in a search engine.
I also finally caught a reflection of the the image capture vehicle. I'm sure I skipped a lot of them before but it took me a while once I finally started looking for them. Now I see them all the time. Here's the first one I saw. I know it makes no logical sense, but it struck me as odd at first because I've always pictured the vehicle going from left to right just like the picture series do in a hit.
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Ya...I've had a lot of expired HIT's from downtime but no big
BTW I have been seeing tons of the same HIT's....I gladly do them again....but I don't know if this is a glitch or perhaps a form of confirmation or maybe just amazon keeping us busy so they have a ready force for when they need stuff done?
I think Cracell has it right--I don't think there's a human (or a pre-designed human answer key) at A9 approving all the hits; I suspect they're using (or at least experimenting with) a consensus system. An image gets shown twice--if both agree, both HITs get accepted. If they don't, it comes around again, and again, and again, until a certain number agree (at which point all non-agreeing hits are rejected).
It would explain why HITs aren't just approved during business hours, but ARE more likely to be approved when the system is getting a lot of use.
Max Leibman
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