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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean yeah that’s true.

But on reddit reposts were everywhere and it was very common for bots to karma farm by doing so, so calling it out had a purpose.

[–] LovableSidekick 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

People who have already seen something know they've seen it. They can just skip it. To somebody else it will be new. The vast majority of items being called reposts on reddit were things I had never seen. Whining about reposts might give someone a false sense of accomplishment, but I found it to be useless noise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One feature I feel like I want to see eventually is a list of links to reposts attached at the top of the post, so if someone reposts the same thing, or topic, or question, then if another person recognizes it and finds a previous link, the link could be added to the list and anyone who wants to see the "extended universe" of comments can browse them. That way discussion's larger context is far more easy to see, and quality answers for example can be more easily found by anyone browsing after the link has been found.

I'm not sure if it would be if genuine utility, but people are already doing the work of finding these links to the past, I feel like we might as well make it official and make it a feature?

I'm curious what the rest of you think.

[–] LovableSidekick 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think this is a great idea. An automatic implementation would be easy if it's a repeat of a that was already posted. Somewhat more difficult if it's the same news but from a different source - dunno if that's even technically a repost but it kind of is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A more loosely defined "related/variation" list of links might get very big, but I don't feel like it absolutely shouldn't be done. I don't know, maybe.

Might be able to add a second set to expand the feature if the repost list is successful and useful.

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The link list could have a max size and oldest items could drop off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't love the idea of that kind of automatic deletion

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't mean deleting the old posts I meant they would no longer appear on the repost history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I don’t love the idea of that kind of automatic deletion of the links from the list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

reposts should still probably be labelled as such and link back to older posts

[–] LovableSidekick 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's not a terrible idea - it would be a link to the existing discussion of the topic, which is informative. I like that better than people just whining RePoSt!!1!