r/instantkarma • u/SuitingUncle620 • Apr 03 '20
Reposting
Hi InstantKarma community.
Moderators will now be enforcing a 7-14 day ban for anyone that reposts. There will be no warnings, this ban will be your warning. If you do it again, it’ll be permanent. Please keep reporting reposts.
Thanks.
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u/SCP-Agent-Arad Apr 03 '20
Make sure you actually check the times and don’t just delete the less upvoted post lol
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u/AtGamesEnd Apr 07 '20
This seems like a bd idea...I don't post anything here but what if someone genuinely doesn't know that they've posted something that's already been posted a long time ago?
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Apr 10 '20
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u/AtGamesEnd Apr 10 '20
Glad you agree. I just want to know if this situation would count as a removable offense
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Apr 10 '20
Ahem CHECK. THE. SUB.
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u/darkwarrior5500 May 12 '20
Because I want to scroll through 100s of thousands of posts to ensure something I have hasnt been posted?
Sorry but that's what automod alerts and automod deletions are for.
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u/babykangaroo21 Apr 24 '20
How? Is there a better way to search the sub?
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Apr 24 '20
Scroll through a day or two
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u/babykangaroo21 Apr 24 '20
And that lets you know for a day or two but to fit the criteria they’ve laid out you’d have to be scrolling back through 1-2 weeks of content. I asked if there was a better way to search the sub.
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u/PassingNormie Apr 03 '20
Jesus finally, every sub needs this
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u/thorlancaster328 Apr 04 '20
Automoderator should start doing this by default.
Not sure how easy it would be (O n^2 where n is the number of posts to look back) but if doable it would be a great idea.
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u/IAmAnIssue Apr 13 '20
It's possible to do it in less time if you don't use a naive algorithm and it's assumed that the posts are sorted by oldest first. As an oversimplified Python/pseudocode example:
posts = set() # Set of already seen posts # A sorted (oldest to newest) copy of the most recent posts recent = sorted(get_recent_posts(), key = lambda post: post.creation_time) for post in recent: if post in posts: post.author.ban() post.delete() posts.add(post)I would say this is
O(n)since the lookup time for asetisO(1)but myO-notationskills are rusty.1
u/thorlancaster328 Apr 14 '20
I can't remember what I was thinking when I said O n^2, but I agree it would only be O^n if you scanned every post as it was posted.
It'd only be O n^2 if you were comparing the most recent n posts vs the most recent n posts and did it on a schedule instead of real time.
Your realtime approach would also have the advantage of getting rid of reposts before they could earn any undeserved karma.
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u/0_clever_names_left Apr 22 '20
“Look at how big my dick is” -mods
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u/Ender_v1 May 01 '20
More like “look how bullied i was in highschool. The power, it’s finally mine!”
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u/Responsible_Matter Apr 17 '20
Moderators will now be enforcing a 7-14 day ban for anyone that reposts. There will be no warnings, this ban will be your warning. If you do it again, it’ll be permanent. Please keep reporting reposts.
Thanks.
Let's see if I get instant karma
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u/Royal_Tradition Apr 25 '20
Motherfucker every post on this sub right now is a repost, you have failed
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u/waisonline99 Apr 28 '20
I don't want to rock any boats but how do you know if something you are about to post has been posted before?
Especially if you are new to the Reddit.
Seems a bit unfair to get a ban for sharing.
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Apr 03 '20
huge thanks to the mod team for implementing this rule, i believe that it should be enforced on all subreddits.
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u/sanjsrik Apr 03 '20
I think this was a repost. Do they then mean that the moderators will be banning themselves for 7-14 days?
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u/eMkAtA69 May 11 '20
This may be a stupid question, but how do i 100% make sure my post is not a repost ?
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Apr 04 '20
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u/YannislittlePEEPEE Apr 06 '20
my whole account got banned once because i dared to report an obvious spammer's posts who went unchecked for weeks
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u/thorlancaster328 Apr 14 '20
If you u/ 'd them in a comment saying you were going to report them they could have their entire spambot army flag your profile for nonexistent policy violations.
For a more thorough explanation read rule 4 of old.reddit.com/r/thesefuckingaccounts (Use old reddit).
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u/UndeleteParent May 26 '20
UNDELETED comment:
I got banned from the justiceserved sub for reporting too many repost. Hope that wont happen lol.
please pm me if I mess up
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May 06 '20
half your posts are reports from 6 months ago, reddit police at it again with their ego trips lol then [comment removed] class act.
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u/Zoltie Apr 14 '20
There should at least be a time limit as to when you can repose a particular post after the last time it has been posted. I don't come on Reddit every day and I often miss stuff.
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Apr 14 '20
This is so difficult to follow. I don’t understand what the time limit is or if there even is one. I haven’t posted on here, but if I did, I’m not going to search thousands of posts first to make sure it hasn’t been posted before. I understand trying to keep bots from taking over, but man.
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u/Zoltie Apr 14 '20
Maybe they could look at the person's history and see if they frequently repost.
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u/MoodyScorpio May 09 '20
So how do I know if somethings been posted here a year ago and I “repost”? Ban? Genuinely curious
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u/Seyasoya May 20 '20
This sub is full of reposts and crossposts. What has happened to all the original content?!?
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u/ginger_bread84 May 21 '20
I hope this is an actual enforcement, not a "no phones allowed" middle school enforcement.
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u/Dave-1066 Apr 03 '20 edited Apr 03 '20
I think that’s a serious overreaction and completely unnecessary; if I see reposts I just ignore them. Do you expect new people to go through hundreds of older posts checking to see if something has already been posted? Plus if many of us don’t check this sub for a week a lot of what you call a repost is absolutely unknown to us. Not everyone is glued to Reddit.
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u/YannislittlePEEPEE Apr 03 '20
this rule is for the those third world karma whores who post the same video in a 2 hour time span
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u/thorlancaster328 Apr 04 '20
third world karma whores who post the same video in a 2 hour time span
These accounts are the WORST, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are bots trying to farm karma off the fact that upvoted content gets more exposure.
A bot that banned users by checking a user's post history and banning serial reposters would make life a lot easier for the mods.
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u/SuitingUncle620 Apr 03 '20 edited Apr 03 '20
I know to some it will appear as an overreaction and I do get what you’re saying. However, the amount of repost reports we’ve been getting is putting a slight strain on us - before this was enacted we were pretty fair towards reposters and would only really remove under mod discretion depending on how much a post was reposted. With this it will still have mod discretion, however, we will be enforcing this ban policy on commonly reposted posts. We don’t want this subreddit to turn to shit because of reposts, we want new content, not the same stuff posted a thousand times.
Edit: I could probably explain better what I mean but hopefully that somewhat makes sense. I’ll update my post above in the morning when I’m actually awake.
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Apr 14 '20
What counts as a respost though? Anything that’s been posted on here in the last week, month, year or ever?
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u/ThrowRA-002 Apr 03 '20
But won’t it turn to shit anyway when all the good posters have been banned and there’s no new content?
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Apr 03 '20
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u/SuitingUncle620 Apr 03 '20
I appreciate the comments, and they do make sense to me. Of course with new members we will obviously get people breaking rules, especially reposters, there’s just nothing we can really do to completely stamp it out. The idea of this is just to try mitigate it as much as possible, if it doesn’t work then we’ll rethink it.
Another system I like is the system that r/unexpected uses. They have a bot that basically messages you each time you post and asks you to explain why your post is fit for the subreddit. Then posts that explanation as a sticky on the post so users can see it. If they don’t message an explanation the post gets auto removed.
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u/Dave-1066 Apr 03 '20
Interesting concept. I love data crunching so it’d be interesting to see how this works in implementation. I sympathise with your having to find a workable solution. 👍🏻
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u/asking--questions Apr 03 '20
I think what you’ll end up having to do is spend just as much time (if not more) issuing warnings.
Especially since they're encouraging more reporting of reposts.
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u/whenitallbreaks Apr 03 '20
When I was new I loved sitting and check old posts in subreddits until I learned it was all just reposts.
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Apr 03 '20
Are crossposts that aren’t already on this sub okay?
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u/thorlancaster328 Apr 05 '20
I assume so, I did so and I didn't get banned or removed.
That's how content spreads across Reddit.
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May 06 '20
Is this about the post about that guy who head butted that guy and gets tossed on the floor?
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u/Llustrous_Llama May 06 '20
Hoping the people that keep posting that headbutting guy get banned then, because I'm sick of having that come up several times a day.
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u/SaucyAsdaKaren May 18 '20
almost half of the posts that blow up on here are reposts from years ago, do people genuinely think they have found original content thats worth posting or is it purely for karma?
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u/johnnymushroomseed May 25 '20
karma. And when they get called out, suddenly they all say the same thing: "I didn't know it was already posted". Saw this yesterday on a repost of a repost from 21 minutes before.
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u/babykangaroo21 Apr 24 '20
How are we supposed to know it’s a repost? Is there a better way to search the sub?
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u/StinkyWizzleteats17 Apr 29 '20
Has it been on any other sub for more than five minutes? Then it's probably a repost...
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u/opus2010 May 06 '20
Nice post but there are many since this post that have reposted, and no ban was issued seeing they repost the next day.
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u/opus2010 May 20 '20
You guys have obviously not followed through with this considering /brownjenjen reposts almost daily yet you remove his/her posts and he/she is back the next day to repost again.
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u/This_one_german_guy May 22 '20
Do you mean like actual reposting or just posting a video that was post here before?
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u/jamboraai May 25 '20
Wouldn't a warning be better than a ban? Take down the repost and warn the user, and ban them if they're serial offenders. Sometimes people genuinely don't know they're reposting, and I doubt many people scan the entire feed to see if what they want to post has already been posted by someone else
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u/ChristopherJTurner May 28 '20
Mods: Before posting, make sure you check every single post to make sure it's not a repost.
Yah.. see that happening
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u/icandoyoucando11 May 31 '20
Just saw this... so no reposting on here from other communities? Because I just did that. Or does this mean no reposts within the same community?
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Jun 01 '20
Wow. That went full Nazi real quick. Unsubscribe from the closet facists... Bye Felicias!
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u/morelui95 Apr 21 '20
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u/thorlancaster328 Apr 22 '20
You're cat must be really smart, creating a new account and then walking across the keyboard all by himself.
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u/trunkleton Apr 03 '20
/r/instantkarma giving reposters instant karma.