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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My first instinct was to call this a repost as I remember seeing this like 4 years ago on reddit but this is a different platform altogether.

Though it Is worth the reminder to Treat yo self

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Should you even call something out as a repost when the last time it was posted was 4 years ago?

After all, millions of people have been born and grown up during that time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My thoughts exactly. On reddit I used to reply to repost complaints, which I find annoying, by saying that they were the most reposted thing I saw. But tbh their frequency has seemed to decrease, almost as if they're being auto-removed. If so, I appreciate it. A subject showing up repeatedly just means somebody's still interested in it.