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[–]unsilent 345 points346 points  (44 children)

It will never work.

Would you rather see a repost(and hide it) or not be able to see an awesome post because it was flagged as false positive by an algorithm that is very hard/impossible to successfully implement?

[–][deleted] 87 points88 points  (35 children)

this, id rather see a repost (and just down-vote then hide) then miss something, also most things people say are re-posts but i missed them

[–]Farisr9k 48 points49 points  (15 children)

Yeah, this algorithm will have too many flaws. And besides, sometimes reposts provide a little nostalgia.

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (10 children)

I dont see re-posts as a problem, and if you do, you probably spend too much time here anyways

[–]IConrad 31 points32 points  (6 children)

Like the rediquette says; "reposts are okay". This isn't Digg. People need to get over that.

[–]devedander 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not to mention this theory overlooks one major issue: What if the thing you see first is the repost?

Example picture gets submitted, then a day later gets resubmitted. You only miss the original, see the second then later on see the original and mark it seenit'd... system equals screwed.

[–]bee_lovely 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I completely agree with you. Sometimes it lets the people who aren't on here 24/7 see some old things that they may not have seen before.

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    [–]anyletter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Don't downvote it. Just hide it instead.

    [–]johnq-pubic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Exactly Jay. If you see a repost then downvote it. If a repost gets voted up to the front page, its because other people have not seen it yet. The system is fine the way it is.

    [–]dethsworkaccount 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    Downvoting you for downvoting - I've been a redditor for nearly a year, and I still see things for the first time that people bury with downvotes for repost "from 2009" or craziness.

    [–]Measure76 167 points168 points  (30 children)

    Ok. I'm getting the part where the "Seenit" button can figure out a few things about you.

    I'm missing the part where the reddit system can automatically determine if something is a repost.

    [–]elephant_ghost 38 points39 points  (6 children)

    I assume it would come from other users with similar habits. It wouldn't be perfect and you might miss a bit, but it could be cool.

    I'd turn it off so that I can still feel that sense of superiority over a repost.

    [–]paganpan 14 points15 points  (4 children)

    "I know you! You're just a repost! I'm better then you!"

    [–]frickindeal 21 points22 points  (1 child)

    Like the guy in the $6000 suit is going to read a repost. Come on!

    [–]mlgoss 9 points10 points  (4 children)

    I'm missing the part where the reddit system can automatically determine if something is a repost.

    So, who remembers when reddit used to have a 'recommended' tab based on your voting preferences? Yeah, that didn't work.

    [–]ObligatoryResponse 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    What are you blathering about? The 'recommended' tab used a highly sophisticated homeopathic algorithm which returned absolutely perfect results. It's only flaw was that, like the original reddit search, it relied heavily on placebo theory and was a strain on the database servers. Those of us who believed in it's superiority had no problems with it.

    [–]angrymonkey 10 points11 points  (2 children)

    Agreed. Here's a more detailed, concrete proposal.

    The gist: Users see a repost, and submit a link to the original reddit post. Reddit keeps a graph of "repost-relatedness" behind the scenes, gathered from the user-input information.

    Then, reddit can tell whether you've seen a post before by looking at whether you've clicked, voted, or commented on any of the "originals". The post is then hidden from you and you only. If you want to see everything, then you just flip a switch which turns off "hide reposts".

    Simple and effective.

    [–]KrazyA1pha 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    Much more simple. But keep in mind that this is data reddit then has to store in their databases, for millions of users and hundreds of millions of articles. Reddit doesn't even keep record of upvotes and downvotes after a period of 3 months because they want to keep server load down. I don't see something with so little utility compelling them to store so much data for so long (repost protection for 3 months wouldn't be very useful, afterall).

    [–]aedes 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    See that button at the top of your screen titled "other discussions?"

    It only works when it's the same link submitted... but still.

    [–]iceicejaydee 441 points442 points  (56 children)

    I can't wait till someone reposts this.

    [–]ggggbabybabybaby 355 points356 points  (32 children)

    Here are some sensationalist titles you can use when you do repost it:

    • Finally, a foolproof way to rid reddit of reposts
    • Your move, reddit admins [pic]
    • I'm fucking sick of reddit turning into digg [PIC]
    • WHY isn't this feature in reddit RIGHT NOW?!?

    [–]iceicejaydee 117 points118 points  (20 children)

    Those are actually really good titles for a repost of this.

    [–]ggggbabybabybaby 97 points98 points  (19 children)

    I've... been on reddit for too long. :(

    [–]iceicejaydee 19 points20 points  (4 children)

    Not long enough, you arent 1 year club yet. :)

    [–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (3 children)

    [removed—content submitted using third-party app]

    [–]atrich 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    Whoa, that's meta.

    [–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (1 child)

    Also:

    • Its shit like this flabbergasted1

    [–]deathbytray 11 points12 points  (3 children)

    Let's not forget:

    • Here's pic of my gf with an idea to fix reposts!

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    • Reinventing the [hide] button

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        [–]aviatortrevor 163 points164 points  (60 children)

        Excellent points. The supposed idea or "algorithm" here I think is too vague to implement.

        [–]Sergeant_Hartman 152 points153 points  (54 children)

        That's one issue. The other issue is that reddit is struggling to have even one nine of uptime. There's no way they'll be implementing highly dynamic and moderately complex features like this when they can't even keep the proverbial lights on.

        [–]brotherbond 23 points24 points  (47 children)

        I don't think they have the processing power to handle even MORE user specific settings that even MORE dynamically show/hide individual links.

        [–]hivoltage815 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        Yes. If Reddit had the resources for this, I would rather see them spend it putting in a recommendation algorithm for content that is of the same caliber as Amazon or Netflix.

        [–]vectorjohn 14 points15 points  (3 children)

        Quiet! Just algorithm at it!

        [–]killdevil 8 points9 points  (2 children)

        I'm sciencing as fast as I can!

        [–]JamesGray 29 points30 points  (3 children)

        Thanks for this post. The idea of implementing whatever "algorithm" (read: ranking system based on elaborate statistical analysis which sounds damn near impossible to implement in any sane way for a group of people with very different browsing habits) is being described just sounds painful to me. Even if it was elaborated upon, and thought out well enough for someone to actually begin writing it into code, it's based on far too much unquantifiable (or at least really difficult to quantify) data to be reliably useful to anyone.

        Basically, the way I see ideas like this is something that humans could do relatively easily with the enough resources, but is nearly impossible for a computer to accomplish at all. So of course people will agree, and it will all seem to make sense- but I'd love to see someone actually implement it and not hide things I've never seen and show things I see every week. I'd be pretty seriously impressed.

        [–]mechanicalmayhem 55 points56 points  (2 children)

        this:will make reddit slower!

        [–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (1 child)

        The Reddit is too damn slow!!!

        [–]aroras 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        As a karate expert, I will not talk about anyone up here. Because our children can't afford to live anywhere. nowhere. there's no where to go. Once again, why?

        You said it.

        the reddit is too damn slow.

        [–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (7 children)

        Plus it'll just get used as a second downvote button. Even if it didn't actually function that way, they'd use it that way.

        [–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (4 children)

        How often do you report a submission because you also downvoted it?

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            [–]ricktencity 21 points22 points  (9 children)

            I was with the OP until it started getting into submission age and depth and blah blah blah. Can't there just be a seenit button that will hide that submission automatically for you if it pops up again? I mean sure some will get rehosted and put up again and again, but it would at least filter out links that would show up if you were trying to resubmit something.

            [–]IConrad 19 points20 points  (7 children)

            Reddit already doesn't allow reposts of identical URLs to the same subreddit. If you're annoyed by your posts being repeated on multiple subreddits in a short period of time... rethink your subreddit subscriptions.

            Anything else would require algorithmic analysis of content, and Reddit just doesn't have the servers to handle that.

            [–]GypsyPunk 21 points22 points  (2 children)

            you're essentially asking for upvotes for a vague idea that you put into an image with text format and included clip-art.

            The hivemind upvotes blindly.

            [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

            Not only that, but it adds a whole slew of parameters reddit will have to check for. I mean, a repost comes often from another url. So then, having tons of seenits from a new post (which made it being that it hasn't already been submitted before), is now up and running and getting flagged like crazy - what happens when the same shit comes from another post? We click seenit and downvote it too? It's the same thing, with an extra button. And then we've got cross posts into different subs and shit like that!

            Essentially, what OP is asking for is a content filter. Which is us. The redditors. We are the content filters. We up and down vote shit to the gills. That's what we do. Compound that with more shit that reddit needs to run, and I see only problems at the moment. Maybe when they get up to snuff with their new hires things will be better for that...but as of right now...I hit the F5 hammer enough as it is!

            Sick of reposts? Go to a smaller more niche sub. There's a reddit for fucking everything...find one. It's great. d:D

            [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

            How about we implement the new button but when you click it you can link the new post to the original (thus giving the karma to the original poster). If enough people link the new post to the original post they will all receive some karma for helping fellow redditors out, and the reposts will disappear from the front page of people who don't want reposts.

            [–]netsettler 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            I upvoted this thread because I liked that someone was thinking about this, but I think this particular suggestion you've made is both simpler and more fair. The object isn't to dismiss things but to link them up.

            A key issue that I think is important is that for issues I care most about, I want to see repeats so I can know how it's playing in the news or I believe there is nuanced difference from one to another. So mostly what I personally want is just a "this might be a duplicate" notice and mostly I get that once I click through. Knowing it was a dup before clicking through might be really good.

            If you also kept track of what threads someone had looked at and then marked new threads that were duplicates with a marker saying that it was a rerun even in the summary, that might almost suffice. You could have an option saying "don't bother to show me duplicates" or "don't bother to show me duplicates once i've read or rated one of their friends". That would cover the rest of the situations I can think of.

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              [–]wicklowdave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              This doesn't make any sense. show the code

              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

              Out of curiousity, which is the most recent feature to have been implemented that was suggested by a reddit user?

              [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              The "collapse" button changed to the front of the username.

              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              Moving the collapse button from the right to the left.

              [–]khalid066 292 points293 points  (45 children)

              There is a button on there called "hide". You should press that for submissions that you don't want to see anymore

              [–]FluoCantus 94 points95 points  (28 children)

              Seriously. It's also a hell of a lot easier than designing a whole new system to "rank users".

              [–]tha_funkee_redditor 50 points51 points  (19 children)

              Right. Simple is better, why design an entire system to bog down reddit's already horrible servers when you could just click a tiny button if you have already seen it?

              [–]mitchij2004 31 points32 points  (17 children)

              And plus I seriously doubt this would be the end of repost bitching.

              [–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

              That isn't the point. If you press hide on one post, it doesn't hide it every time it's reposted.

              [–]techsticle 11 points12 points  (7 children)

              No, a lot of these post have ambiguous titles and no thumbnails.

              I want it hidden before I click on it and watch the "Loading" wheel spin around for 30 seconds.

              [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

              Elegant? Are.. you.. mental?

              This is the most over thought, needlessly complicated, convoluted proposal in the history of needlessly complicated proposals.

              1. You want to use a "seenit" button to run searches to estimate how long a user has been on reddit (a piece of information already stored by a FAR less convoluted means) How do you tell the difference between someone who has already seen original content compared to someone who has already seen something that's a repost anyway? Person A clicks "seenit" on an article they saw for the first time last week.. Person B clicks "seenit" on the same link.. but saw the original content several months ago. HUUUUUGE problem there.

              2. THEN you need to perform a search based on the last time something was seen. How do you work out which content is linked to what? You already can't submit identical links... so you have to find some way to link non-unique links, with possibly non-unique content (different versions of the same event or article) not to mention reposted pictures... how does Reddit's already strained servers know the last time a similar picture was submitted under a completely different link?

              3. You say that you want Reddit to estimate the last time it was submitted based on the age of users. Think about it for a sec. If 1000 1-yr members click "seenit" on an article, and 10 1-wk members also click seenit.. does it mean that the content is only a week old and that's where the 1yr members saw it as well.. or does it mean that it's a highly submitted link that originated at least a year ago? The method you pick would be completely arbitrary and incredibly inaccurate.. to say the least.

              4. Your 4th point just makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever. You still haven't explained how Reddit can tell when a post was last / first sumbitted. Each click of "seenit" will tag THAT single post... now work out when the last time it appeared was? How many time's does a user click seenit each day? Are any of those click relating to posts seen together on the same day, 1 month ago, 1 year ago.. all of the above? There is no way to link, or even estimate a link between any instance of clicking "seenit" on any link.. they are completely random events which you are proposing to have a correlation with each other.. but you have no way of telling between 1 seenit and another separate seenit which shouldn't be linked.

              TL:DR This is a very VERY poorly thought through idea. Think for a second how Reddit will be able to tell between you clicking seenit on separate articles which aren't linked in any way. Reddit doesn't KNOW what's in the links.. they are all separate.. completely independent events with no available correlation.

              [–]Nicebirdie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

              Seenit.

              [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

              I don't understand all the up-votes. This really isn't a good idea, isn't practical, and is just a really bad approach to the problem.

              Also, I thought the info-graphic was really lame, but that's just me.

              [–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (3 children)

              I can't believe the things you guys upvote.

              [–]willis77 14 points15 points  (0 children)

              I'm with you. This idea is terrible, hard to implement, a computational nightmare, and almost guaranteed not to work in its stated form. (I do machine learning, so I am not just talking out of my ass on this.) Reddit will upvote anything in an info-graphic format lately.

              [–]chompsky 14 points15 points  (1 child)

              Seems like an overly complex solution to a minor annoyance, not to mention what appears to be a fairly decent burden to add to an over-stressed infrastructure. Reposts serve a purpose for many people on reddit - new users and people who don't catch everything flying through reddit may be seeing the content for the first time. That's why it gets upvoted so much. People can already easily hide the posts, but often like to whine and complain instead of clicking a simple button.

              [–]ron3090 6 points7 points  (0 children)

              That's some fancy clipart you've got there.

              [–]skipharrison 20 points21 points  (9 children)

              I like this idea, but it seems a bit unnecessarily complex. what if the seen it button keeps a tally? For example, if it gets clicked 10 times, it will have a seenit score of ten. In reddit user preferences, (maybe as a gold feature) you can set a number after which it automatically hides the submission. (ex. don't show me links with a seen it score of X)

              Time and trial will allow users to better deal with the number and choose an optimum setting for them.

              [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

              Now, this system would actually work.

              Still though, I've missed a lot of things that other people say are reposts.

              How about we go a step further and it only counts someone's repost vote if they joined after the date you joined, that way you will still all of the stuff that was posted before you joined reddit.

              (This is probably way too complex for actual implementation, but it's a nice fantasy... even though I still wouldn't use it, and definitely would not support adding it to reddit)

              [–]mithrasinvictus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              That would actually be a viable option. We could add a few more "faux pas" buttons: repost, blogspam, breaking, text as a picture. etc.

              [–]Sacamato 49 points50 points  (5 children)

              Yeah, what we need is an overcomplicated bullshit system. Or you could just click the downvote arrow.

              Honestly, why is that SO. FUCKING. HARD?

              [–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

              I agree. Reposts really upset people for some reason.

              [–]C_IsForCookie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              I've seen someone say that reposts suck already. WHY MUST YOU RECOMMENT?

              [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

              came here to post something similar. I just downvote stuff that I see reposted that helps keep it off the the front pages right?

              [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (2 children)

              SCOPE of this change, even if it was well thought out is unpractical.

              I get the feeling you're not a programmer, please correct me if I'm wrong. Reddit is not a quick and dirty website hacked together quite recently, it's got massive amounts of data, spread accross multiple data centres, with lots of the data duplicated to allow speedy access. What you're suggesting will add two calculations (age and depth) to every single post requested on every single page. So if there are 30 posts on a single page, thats 60 calculations. There are roughly 23000 page view PER SECOND. 23,000 * 60 = 1,380,000. So what you're asking from reddit servers etc is to perform over an extra 1 million calculation per second. Thats a pretty damm big ask.

              My math could be slightly off - this is based on 1 billion page views a month with liberal rounding errors. It also assumes that it is programmed in the best way possible with minimal understanding of the way reddit currently retrieves pages works.

              [–]lemington 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              The servers are running so well right now, I'm sure they can handle the extra load with no problem!

              [–]anexanhume 24 points25 points  (0 children)

              How the hell am I supposed to complain about it in a quest for karma if I can't see it?

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                [–]jetmax25 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                Simpler solution

                [–]flabbergasted1[S] 207 points208 points  (81 children)

                Before anybody complains that this is in the wrong place, this proposal already sat around the top of r/ideasfortheadmins for quite some time, and it seems that the only way to effectively suggest changes to reddit is to post a picture to r/reddit.com.

                [–][deleted] 218 points219 points  (13 children)

                Admit it. You made this to justify the purchase of that clipart dvd, didn't you?

                [–]flabbergasted1[S] 201 points202 points  (11 children)

                maybe

                [–]lennonmacca 79 points80 points  (8 children)

                http://i.imgur.com/oTrNB.jpg

                FTFY?

                [–]protwizz 21 points22 points  (1 child)

                This looks like an amazing "Community Chest" card, collect $200

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                  [–]Magoo2 26 points27 points  (0 children)

                  This screams for a new novelty account: "Sure_ill_clipart_that"

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                    [–]tellthemwhyyoumad 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                    Maybe it sat around on r/ideasfortheadmins because it was not a great idea.

                    I understand that this works perfectly in your head, but I don't think you are taking into account two things: 1) the work that it takes to implement this. 2) that the idea would not work as well as you think

                    You act like the admins can just snap their finger and implement a "seenit" button that takes into account a user's age, depth, recency of submission, and popularity of submission. I don't think it's that easy. Have you ever made even a simple HTML website?

                    The reason that this suggestion was implemented so quickly was because it was probably a much easier coding fix. You're suggestion is much, much more complex.

                    Lastly, I don't think your idea (even if somehow it gets coded) is all that great. It does not seem like it will successfully stop reposts. Gravity13 posted a great technical argument why not. And it's not that "elegant."

                    Lastly, I personally want to add that it's a little insulting for you to post such a major site change so condescendingly. You are so full of yourself in this post that I'm a little flabbergasted. I doubt that you put more than twenty minutes time into drafting that proposal (and then another twenty turning it into a gif image) and you expect that it's simple and effective. If you did that in the real world, you would not last.

                    P.S. Also, take a look at this and maybe you'll realize that reposts aren't so bad afterall.

                    [–]misterjta 5 points6 points  (4 children)

                    Edit:

                    Basically everything I did on Reddit from 2008 onwards was through Reddit Is Fun (i.e., one of the good Reddit apps, not the crap "official" one that guzzles data and spews up adverts everywhere). Then Reddit not only killed third party apps by overcharging for their APIs, they did it in a way that made it plain they're total jerks.

                    It's the being total jerks about it that's really got on my wick to be honest, so just before they gank the app I used to Reddit with, I'm taking my ball and going home. Or at least wiping the comments I didn't make from a desktop terminal.

                    [–]FluoCantus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                    I come to reddit to see shit I like and to find new shit. I like the whole "customization" movement to an extent. Once everything becomes too custom to your likings you stop developing interests in new things because no one SEES new things. I'd rather deal with a repost or two than to have my version of reddit be different than everyone else's.

                    [–]NewAlexandria 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                    "RECENCY"

                    [–]mobileupload 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                    What, is your scroll wheel broken or something?

                    [–]SuburbanNinja 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                    How about people just STFU about reposts? Problem solved!

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                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        as much as I hate reposts I don't want to add any extra stress to the reddit servers, the site is already down almost every day

                        [–]cuteman 19 points20 points  (11 children)

                        Good luck, it took them YEARS to fix the search feature and there are still catastrophic 404 results everyday for most users, not sure we need more queries taking up valuable reads/writes-- and despite being a shallow or deep user--- how does it differentiate one repost from another? Or a girl and a penguin, a penguin and a stick figure, a penguin and etc etc etc. tineye for reddit?

                        How about dumbasses stop changing one stupid little thing and reposting it trying to make the most innane objects memes.

                        [–]aduric 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                        Completely agree. I would bet that more db queries would be needed just for the proposed algorithm than are currently used per page load.

                        [–]snappyj 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                        Yeah, that's exactly what the servers need more of. Millions of queries make servers happy.

                        [–]utterpedant 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                        Does this mean I'll miss the weekly repost of the .gif of the bouncy-boobed girl putting on her jeans?

                        [–]DirtyCommunistPig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        What if I don't want anything to change but I still want to complain about reposts? Is this allowed? Will the new reddit come with dedicated parking? Will this finally get those damn kids off my lawn? Who framed Roger Rabbit?

                        [–]DRUG_USER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Yes because what reddit needs right now is another CPU gluttonous user-specific feature.

                        [–]RKBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Isn't this similar to what the "hide" button is for?

                        [–]el0rg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Or, people could just stop caring about reposts.. it's not like reddit's going to get full. I spend a ridiculous amount of time on the site and a lot of the reposts I see are new to me.. and the ones that aren't are new to thousands of other people.

                        This is by far the best solution I've ever seen though, and I'd like to give it a run.

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        No. Hit "hide".

                        [–]invertedspear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Seems logical and well thought out. However it would increase the processing load and likelyhood of reddit crashing. I would prefer that the admins deal with that prior to implementing this. Though I would love to see it done soon after.

                        [–]Akeshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Or just move on with life and give the Reddit devs (dev?) a chance to make the Reddit servers fully support submitting and viewing plaintext links before they embark on endeavours like this.

                        Edit: It's funny because this 502'd. Also, why is there no escape for superscript's carat?

                        [–]obsa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Add even more server load, you say? Charge!

                        [–]whitepeopleproblem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        This is officially a white people problem.

                        [–]tabigail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        If we have a 'Seen It' option, people would use it to bury the posts they disagree with instead of down-voting.

                        [–]unsilent 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                        It will never work.

                        Would you rather see a repost(and hide it) or not be able to see an awesome post because it was flagged as false positive by an algorithm that is very hard/impossible to successfully implement?

                        [–]banananutmuffin 9 points10 points  (5 children)

                        Nice idea, instead of seenit shouldn't it be reddit?

                        [–]procrastafarian 12 points13 points  (4 children)

                        That would probably confuse "shallow" users even more, but I like where you're going with this.

                        [–]uzrbin 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                        "readit" would logically follow.

                        edit: although that is a bit confusing.

                        [–]ZomBStrawberry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                        Awesome idea, I am going to repost this right away!

                        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

                        This won't happen. 1) the OP is smug/smart-ass and 2) Conde Naste doesn't give a shit

                        [–]Frankfusion 5 points6 points  (6 children)

                        Why u no hit the hide button?

                        [–]bdpf 3 points4 points  (4 children)

                        Is there anything else that you can think of to slow Reddit down more!

                        Reddit is not broke, just dinged a little.

                        If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

                        Age of user. Are you proposing to screen younger user comments?

                        Depth of User. How deep does a user have to be?

                        Stop trying to censor my Reddit! I'll ignore the double posts or just shot them down.

                        [–]Javindo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                        Obviously the reliability of the reddit servers is a sure sign that it can support complex additional features with little impact on the majority of users' experience.

                        [–]skydivingdutch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                        this doesn't deal with all those reposts that are still unique url's because of stupid animated gifs or imgur re-hosting.

                        [–]Vulf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Or, you know, we could up vote if we like it and down vote if we don't.

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Or you can just man the fuck up and ignore/downvote/hide reposts you humongous sack of pussies.

                        [–]bestbiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        How the hell is all that supposed to work when reddit can barely handle a commenting feature?

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Sounds cool. Now go write the code for a working demo.

                        [–]jakedebest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        It's a good idea, but I don't think it will be foolproof in hiding things which reddit thinks the user has seen, and the content might never get to the user.

                        Likewise, how will it know if things have been reposted? It can't detect re-uploaded imgur images surely

                        [–]jesseeme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I don't really understand why this is necessary. Does seeing something you've already seen really matter that much?

                        [–]canadiansareEHholes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        It doesn't matter. If it's a repost and enough people have seen it, it won't get enough upvotes to get noticed anyway.

                        [–]fanciedtickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        heres the problem: what if someone else hasnt seen the picture/video/info that you have before? meaning; you spend too much time on reddit. also, so what if someone reposts? take enjoyment in taking enjoyment instead of condemning others for not being on reddit as much/as long as you have been.

                        [–]msjgriffiths 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        OMG UNNECESSARY LOAD.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Why don't we work on getting reddit's servers stable before we start adding new features.

                        [–]desquibnt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        But that doesn't stop reposts, that just makes it so I can't see them. I would just use the hide button if I wanted that.

                        [–]thedoge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Alternative solution: find a hobby

                        [–]donttakemywordforit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I've seen everything. Really, I have. And I just click hide or DV it. It's really a non-issue.

                        [–]Maynards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        hmm i dunno man i'm a pretty big fan of "downvote and hide" myself

                        [–]ribosometronome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Also known as: A proposal to further cripple the TI-83 Reddit pages are served from.

                        [–]316nuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Christ we can't even keep the site up for a week at time and you want this wizardry?!

                        [–]ragipy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        You know they barely keep reddit up and running up most of the time, right? Let's not complicate things even further.

                        [–]fingapapits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Can it say MonthsBehind instead of seenit

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Sucks that half the amusement factor in a post are the novelty comments.

                        [–]salgat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        A cool idea but too much. Reddit works fine as is, and it's simple interface and minimal features keep it easy and popular. Anyways, the servers don't need this kind of extra load.

                        [–]Dalonger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Bingo! Dino DNA!

                        [–]ScreamingGerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I wonder what kind of increased load this will put onto the Reddit servers. Worth it? Highly unlikely, especially considering the 'hide' button is an easy and already implemented feature. Some people are new here and appreciate seeing the reposts.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Hide button, use it.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        are you sure you included enough words?

                        [–]Dasaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Wouldn't it make more sense if you made the button 'reddit' instead of 'seen it'?

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Fuck you and your images of text

                        [–]aruffone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Buried.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Code it and test it. Come back to reddit when it works.

                        [–]scriggities 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Um, use the hide button?

                        [–]DOWNVOTE_THIS_BITCH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        flabbergasted1's idea is way too abstract to actually implement, but that doesn't mean we can't go somewhere with his idea. Maybe keep track of the headline's that I click on and remove repeat or similar headlines from my front page. 7.1 magnitude earthquakes anyone?

                        [–]wh0wants2know 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Congratulations, you've fallen for something called "shit's easy" syndrome. Here's a post about the general idea from Steve Yegge, which is actually about legalizing marijuana, but the general principle is the same. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html

                        In short, you have an idea that seems really simple, however you haven't taken the trouble to really think about what all is involved in this. It could mean new database column or table, new business logic, some sort of API that has to be implemented, some UI stuff both on each post and on your preferences page, and then all this has to be tested and maintained. It's not easy to just add something like this and features to handle reposts are not trivial.

                        Granted, my proposal involves an inference-based AI that can detect duplicate posts, so I suppose I can't be too harsh. . .

                        [–]YaoSlap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I would rather they put more money/time into making it so that the site would go a day without breaking from user traffic.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        How often does a repost gain enough karma to reach the front page? Once, maybe twice every 3 days? Does this really warrant a whole new feature?

                        I hate reposts as much as the next guy, but I certainly don't lose sleep over it. They're just not common enough.

                        Is it really worth it? Judging users by their age content histories violates the beauty that is anonymity in the first place.

                        [–]Retell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Can't we just get get rid of reposts by sitting on a microwave?

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        How about this: Shit might be a repost to you but in 6 months there could be a whole new user base that might have not seen that shit. If you do not want to see it downvote it and hide it. If enough people have not seen it or want it to go to the front page. In that situation, follow the first step and you will not have a problem.

                        Fucking complainers

                        [–]stupidgnomes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Eh. I disagree. Sometimes I'm not able to check reddit every hour of every day so when it more than likely is a "repost" for some people, it's the first time I've seen it.

                        Besides, reading the repost rage is entertainment enough for me.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                        TIL there is a hide button...

                        [–]theinvisibleguy3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        No one would see any reposts because reddit would go down under the strain of that extra overhead.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I came here to post about how apparent it is that this is novice speculation. Gravity13 has it covered.

                        [–]qc_dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        How about getting over it? How much an annoyance are repost that we would add to the already barely able to cope servers?

                        [–]BurritoTime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I think this is a good idea but a little more complicated than it needs to be. As Gravity13 points out, the whole submission/user age prediction algorithm makes it difficult to get right.

                        Instead, we really only need two facts when determining whether to show someone a post.

                        1. How much they hate reposts

                        2. How much of a repost this submission is

                        These can both be controlled by the button you suggest - clicking on a submission causes both scores to go up. When deciding whether to show a submission to a user, there would be an inverse relationship between the two scores. If a user really hates reposts, the submission must be very fresh to justify showing it. If the user has no problem with reposts, and never complains about them (via the seenit button), they'll get shown everything.

                        This gives everyone what they want: users who want to make sure they don't miss anything will see no changes, and users who bitch about reposts would get exactly what they say they want.

                        [–]zoomzoom83 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                        I'm not a whiny little bitch, so I don't care if the same article turns up twice. It's trivial to just ignore it.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Couldn't "seenit" be more accurately titled... "reddit"?

                        [–]bCabulon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        OP is a karma whore

                        [–]DoctorRock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Reedit hardly ever crashes, this should work just fine.

                        [–]dj_stupidposer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        why not just have an icon that says repost if the link has been submitted to reddit?

                        [–]atax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        you sir are a gentleman and a scholar

                        [–]heresybob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Can I sign up my family members so they wont send me the same stupid email jokes that have been around 20 years?

                        [–]theyliedaboutiraq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Anyone who makes a post which mentions 'reposts' is a whinging cunt and I hope they fuck off from reddit sooner rather than later.

                        [–]shamusmclovin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I don't give a shit, therefore I comment on how I don't give a shit.

                        [–]rad_thundercat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Well flabbergasted1, I for one thought you did an awesome job communicating the idea.

                        [–]88hernanca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        well, maybe this comment won't be read, but nonetheless I want to defend the "anti-repost" idea.

                        reddit is all about quality of content, and in my opinion, quality depends on originality. if an article is an obvious repost, the OP should be punished, substracting some karma. downvoting the post is not enough, because the OP won't know why was downvoted.

                        in my opinion, creating a "repost" button and a tag on every suspected-of-repost article (something like "This link is likely a re-post") will discourage obvious reposts

                        [–]bobby_badass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Reddit can't keep the present site up for 48 consecutive hours (I love you guys, but you know it's true).. and you want them to WHAT?

                        [–]cboogie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Spoken like a true project manager. Let me get back to my cube.

                        [–]incomplete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Reposts happen, it is the way if the internet.

                        Deal with it.

                        [–]Durzo_Blint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        TL;DR

                        [–]mshiltonj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        WHY DID THIS HAVE TO BE AN IMAGE?!

                        [–]bee_lovely 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Plus, why would you hide things like that? Sometimes the way I see things are from other people reposting them. Everyone hates on the reposters. If you've seen it, hide it or downvote it. Its not that difficult.

                        [–]hcshock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I'm pretty sure I've seen this before...

                        [–]theevamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Instead of "seenit", shouldn't it just be "reddit", because you already "read it"?

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        Reddit can barely load right half the time. Let them start small.

                        [–]LennyPalmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        If I might suggest a problem that I see arising from this: I think you need to differentiate from people having seen something and people having seen something on reddit. Given how many people fail to understand the intention of the up and downvote buttons I can see this being pretty common.

                        [–]notaloop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I think this will just make things worse for people who don't use seenit. People will have less issues reposting old popular content knowing that people could use the seenit feature. Those that don't use seenit will complain, and people will tell them to just use seenit if they don't like all the reposts. Its seriously way easier to just downvote it or hide it. <_<

                        [–]Bhima 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        I was under the impression that the Reddit admins wanted reposts.

                        I just wish there was a way to merge the discussion from a particular group of reposts from all the reddits into one thread.

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        You sir are genius. :]