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depends, a lot of whats on reddit came from elsewhere, sometimes from years before. I dont feel any need to credit reddit for anything like that I grab, if its new and a post unique to the site, I bring it over as an ARCHIVE and link it.

Reddit steals from all over the internet. It's fine to grab content you like and post it here.

I see nothing unethical about it. Reddit is mainly a link aggregator which means most of the content is not actually hosted by them. In these cases Reddit merely posts links to sites that host said content, and they usually credit the original creators if it's not apparent from the post itself. I see nothing wrong with crossposting from Reddit as long as you also include the username of the poster if it's a text post, or using the same source citations as they do.

Edit: others have pointed out using archive.org. I'd recommend that as well.

As far as I can tell - its fine, but if you use a bot to do it, don't spam a bunch at once.

Reddit reports top post 6 times in 30 minutes. It's probably fine to do here.

Steal hard!

There have been a lot of posts/discussions on this topic. Some people have been using bots to pull Reddit content and post it here. There's not complete agreement on it, but my take on the main feelings are:

• It depends a bit on the community. If it's one that's mostly, say, pics without much discussion expected, people have less of a problem with it.
• Some people who moderated Reddit subs moved here and wanted to take their content with them, and most people don't have an issue with that.
• No one has an issue if you see something like a video or a news item on Reddit and post a link to the source here. Hell, lots of Reddit content came from people seeing stuff on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• What people most objected to is copying over gobs of discussion posts that didn't have any of the above attributes. If I went into a community and saw 200 posts with no responses, I'd have no reason to comment on any of them. And doing it a lot just makes /new look like spam.

I've seen a few bots that literally just link to reddit which defeats the whole purpose of moving here???

With that in mind, I wouldn't mind if you had a backlog of reddit content you previously downloaded, because again... the point in moving to this platform was to stop giving reddit money. Like, yeah sure if you don't post to reddit, you're not providing an incentive for others to stay on the site but if enough people go to reddit for content, we're just giving them money anyway via ads.

I'm sure the majority of users won't care regardless.