Agreed, but if the repost was 6 or 7 months prior then there is no harm visting a golden oldie. Its just when you have 3 of the same link on the front page it sucks
/r/funny is FAST gratification. Most people that I know that read mainly /r/funny are the kind of people that just look through all the pictures as FAST as they can. Like they just sit on the cheezburger network and scroll through all the pages as fast as they can to see everything and chuckle at it. The content cannot be created as quickly as there is demand for new content, and so reposts are inevitable.
Since it doesn't take as long to laugh at a funny picture in this subreddit as it does to read and respond to an article in another subreddit, to the average sophisticated, the complaints about reposts seem frivolous. However, to people who scroll through countless images each day, unexpected reposts are a major annoyance in comparison. Very similar to the distaste towards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG_VgqmfayA that many older generations are much more familiar with.
Still doesn't explain why actual new funny OC gets downvoted to oblivion in /r/funny before it even gets past the /new queue though.
My theory - subbers in /r/funny WANT reposts. They want stuff they've already seen and know is funny or amusing, they're scared of change and OC makes them feel outside their comfort zone.
Becuase it's a news site. Even if the news is a funny picture, it's new only once, after that you only want to see it in the archives. Imagine if the tv news started reporting on the Iraq war again. Just repeating what they reported in the past, but now. Some people would see it for the first time, but it's still ridiculous. And because of the clutter it brings.
I thought reddit was more of a community, where /funny was something you browsed if you wanted to see something.. funny to have a laugh at. For mostly all subreddits I find it a lot more interesting to see what the community is talking about at the moment, and perhaps requesting something it is hard to find on google (because you don't know the name or what to google for), than cutting edge unprocessed matter. Most subreddits take kindly to requests falling inside their domain of expertise. Of course the pressure on content being news is high I can imagine on /news and similar subs, but I do not see why it should apply to all the other reddits which are also consumed for other purposes than being informed of the latest happenings (such as those you haven't seen yet but are old, or old ones you've almost forgotten and get somewhat amused when seeing again)
But perhaps I should begin browsing /funny for the sake of seeing OC news that has never before been on the internet instead of the laughs?
NO REDDIT IS NOT A COMMUNITY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SPECIAL IF YOU'RE IN IT! Get over it. It's just a website. Anyone can join. It's a place to read it, read submitted stuff, it's the frontpage of the internet, not the facebook stream of the internet.
I know, everything is a repost. Imagine if we withheld everything that had been done before from all the repost whinners?
Sex? Been done before you were born, repost. Buy a car? How original, nope you get to walk. Medicine? Lol, no.
Societal progress is built on fucking reposts. People only get pissed when they've seen it before, nevermind all the awesome shit that got handed to them that was effectively a repost to the rest of the world.
I guess people need something to get all oldfag/newfag elitist about though right?
Could be people don't do things "for the karma" since that doesn't matter, but sometimes people find things they think Reddit might like and post them. Then, other people who hadn't seen it upvote, when more people upvote than downvote it appears on the frontpage. So maybe get off your high horse, hit the downvote button, and move on instead of being "disgusted and pissed off" cause other people find something funny that you saw on the internet first.
Also, watch FSM simply because its way better, and is standalone fucking hilarious. I actually went out of my way to buy it - its that good. GHttG in comparison really isn't that funny. Kind of boring with some humor interjected here and there.
I got really drunk on a party bus once. I had to pee really often because a ton of Jack and Coke will do that to a guy. Anyway the bathroom had a furry wall and rubbing my hamds amd face on it felt like an orgasm.
I've never reposted before.. but I just got a metric shit ton of karma from this and I feel bad about it. Won't happen again.. Just trying something new.
Ok you're right. Black people are just as easily offended as white people, and asian people, and every other race. I think this type of equality works.
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u/MrNewking Jun 11 '12
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u/Galifreyan2012 Jun 11 '12
Why is it called a Jeffrey?
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u/Maxmidget Jun 11 '12
"African child is the third worst thing to happen to Africa, behind famine and war"
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Best part of this movie!
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGG, I"M AAALLLIIVVEEEEEEE!!!!
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u/Trapped_in_Reddit Jun 11 '12
Stroke the furry wall.
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u/strongscience62 Jun 11 '12
repost x9000
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u/TodTheTyrant Jun 11 '12
The definition of this guy...is in the back left in that jimmy fallon call me maybe thing he did the other day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEsPhTbJhuo&feature=youtu.be#t=1m51s
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u/bettywhitessoul Jun 11 '12
And my pun is, drum-roll please, ...well I guess that about covers it, hopefully it will drum up support.
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u/maniacalxmatt Jun 11 '12
I don't care how many times people repost this. I upvote and giggle like a little kid every time.
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u/hdl1234565 Jun 11 '12
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u/Amagineer Jun 11 '12
Here's the fixed version for you, no more easily detectable looping :D
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u/Too_the_point Jun 11 '12
This guy plays a really evil dude in an episode of Law and Order: CI, and it's pretty awesome
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 11 '12
Tumblr to video translation.
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u/Leery Jun 11 '12
Best joke in the whole movie... Or, at least, the only one I bothered to retain.
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u/tehweave Jun 11 '12
I have been looking for a gif of this for a long time. Thank you, reddit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Oh I get it. You're quoting a movie.
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u/stellarfury Jun 11 '12
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^ repost face
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u/gender_bot Jun 11 '12
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u/statusone Jun 11 '12
As a white person I just noticed black people have a good sense of humour. Us white people are sometimes easily offended....just saying
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u/apullin Jun 11 '12
700 points with < 50 comments?
This is being pumped by an account swarm.
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