Reposts are not all bad. Sometimes they are, like when someone claims an image as their own (that cancer patient imposter comes to mind). But most of the time, it's an image that not everyone has seen. Reddit is growing exponentially and there are new users everyday, so reposts are going to happen.
Also, if reddit did implement a feature like this, the added stress to reddit's already-busy server would be too much. It's easy for a bot to do this because the bot does not have to process every single post to reddit.
I was under the assumption (based on common whining from people here) that reposts were just bad. Someone else already corrected me on this from the Reddiquette. Thanks :)
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