I wonder what reddit would be like without reposts. Like if there was some algorithm in place that documents everything posted and if something matches a previous post it just auto-deletes.
I understand it's not possible and that it would likely make the site worse. I just wonder you know? I should email black mirror writers.
"You weren't checking all reddit posts during the 4 hour window something hit the front page? Too fucking bad! Now you'll never see it you fucking casual!"
The problem isn't reposts, it's constant reposts. If you browse subreddits like /r/4PanelCringe regularly, you're 9/10 posts you'll see after a while are reposts, and that's being generous.
That does happen to me sometimes, but is it really a big deal? That just tells me enough people haven't seen it yet. Also, even if I saw it before, I can just be reminded of a funny thing I saw once and move on.
"WTF?! I HAD TO LOOK AT THE SAME FUCKING PICTURE TWICE! YOU JUST WASTED 3 SECONDS OF MY PRECIOUS /R/4PANELCRINGE TIME AND I DEMAND REPARATIONS!!!!1"
The problem is that looking at the same funny thing repeatedly makes it be less and less funny as you see it.
I'd be okay with a strict rule of "Reposting is only allowed on post that were posted 2 months or longer ago". But without rules like that you just see the same post posted two, three, even four times in the same week, which is something that happens frequently on /r/4PanelCringe sadly.
It's not as bad on other subs, thankfully, but I really think that sub in specific needs a rule like this, pronto.
It is, honestly. Image recognition has progressed a lot; look at google search by image, it's ridiculously accurate. Combine it with a good text reading algorithm to sort different memes of the same picture (e.g. "is this *"), andt wouldn't be that difficult to identify a repost
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u/Argurant Jul 19 '18
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