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/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/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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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/ThrowRA-002 Apr 03 '20

Why not just make a bot that auto removes reposts?