Reddit made me get in the habit of posting this on repeat posts because so many people angrily reply that it has already been posted. As if once it's posted then every single person has seen it.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 14 hours ago

I have always wondered about the people that would complain about years old reposts. Congratulations, you've seen it before. Maybe if you've seen the whole Internet, it's time to do something else.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There's more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon...

But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I'll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

It's the "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE" meme, come to life. And I'd rather let people have their fun. Doesn't cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago

It became a real problem on reddit after a while where bots would just go grab the most popular posts of 6 months ago and post them all again. Before the bots, people would do it to farm karma, and the people would get called out for it, but it was never a huge deal because you were still getting at worst like a 60/40 split of new content to reposts. But after a certain point the ratio shifted dramatically in favor of reposts in a lot of bigger communities. I think that's what really galvanized the hatred toward them.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago

What, they hadn't heard of XKCD? Losers! /s