It may sound stupid to say this, but when I first clicked through, I did not read the top horizontal bar, and thought the question was whether the item was the word above the picture; as a result, I did not even realize that the question was whether it was a snack, and I answered the question wrong a number of times. I think I learned a valuable lesson in UX design from this, thank you!
Thanks for sharing, UX lesson for me too. I've made it more obvious now. (:
I don't know why this is so entertaining. Puppy! You're a snack!
Anything with a quick fire succession of images and an easily made choice seems to be mildly addictive in a large subset of people. Facemash and Hot or Not being two old examples, but there was one by a HN regular that went viral just a few weeks ago too.. One has to wonder how far you can go with the concept.
There is something surprisingly amusing about declaring things like 'koala' as a snack. It must be an evolutionary thing - the amused feeling is just a suppressed urge to kill and eat anything that moves.
Haha, the animals are getting a higher percentage of "yes" votes than the inanimate objects. (: With the monkey, someone said, "he looked so cute and innocent that i had to accept him as a snack!". Haha this is surprisingly entertaining.
Hmm... 67% of users agree that "Swedish Opera Singer" is indeed a good snack.
Hm that is almost twice as much as those who would want to eat a todler.
I was amused for a good few minutes. I think if your really wondering if something is a snack or not, you might want to put actual snacks items instead of full blown dinner options. I think you will be getting answers to more of the question of Is it edible? which a CD is not.
I stopped at this one. Is this a snack: dinner? - No, it's dinner. :)
Yay! Well, the joke is supposed to be that the alien doesn't know what's appropriate to eat and what is not. Re: nickff's comment, I think that top bar actually gets lost. I put a tiny alien head next to the question to make it clearer. (:
Ah! I get it now, I guess I was being a bit thick.
Maybe your next project should be photos of flying saucers and the question "Is this a threat?".
Dude, yes. HN style - with Color and a web bubble to boot!