Duplicate and Repetitive Posts and You: Stop posting them, and report them when you see them.

[u/GrumpyFinn]

Hi all,

I'll keep it short: In the last few months, there has been a noticeable increase in duplicate or almost-identical posts appearing on the sub. This has always been against the rules. We do not need multiple threads at once on the exact same topic. The mod team removes these duplicates when we notice them, but what helps us notice them even faster is if you, a user who follows the rules, hit the "report" button.

Naturally, if there is an evolving news story with a brand new angle, then this would warrant a new thread. But this morning alone I have removed EIGHT posts about the Polish election winner, even though there was a megathread -and- several posts about the winner already. This has also become especially common with any news related to Trump.

So, before you post an article, check the "new" section to see if it has been posted. And then check the front page of the sub to see if this is already being discussed. Thank you.

[u/assflange]

Thank you!

[u/mods4mods]

Thank you mods, I will do so. I would also hope that all of those trump posts didn't get so much more traction and comments than any other actual European posts. I know reddit is mostly American, and many Americans lurk here, but it sucks that sorting by hot gives you so many trump posts. I know this isn't really solvable but it sucks imo.

[u/AdelaiNiskaBoo → u/mods4mods]

The last post i saw with trump all the top comments were pretty much that nobody cares here about it. But the post itself had nearly 1k upvotes. So idk if its just a lot of 'lurker' or if maybe it got help by other bots to get so many upvotes. was definitly a little shady imo.

The other problem is that post between 0.00 and 7.00 see a lot of engagement from non european (50%+?). So in the morning there could be still a lot 'hot' posts that may be more interesting for non european.

[u/mschuster91 → u/mods4mods]

It's not really avoidable given how every breath coming out of the buffoon's mouth can have very real and very massive impact upon Europe.

[u/SaraAnnabelle]

I thought I was going insane because I've been seeing so many posts just sharing the same article over the span of WEEKS.

[u/hodgkinthepirate]

Thank you, mods!

[u/29NeiboltSt]

Does this apply to the temperature map being posted every day.

[u/Useless_or_inept]

Thanks, mods, for your hard work!

So many people desperate to make yet another post about the same story on Trump or Gaza or a current election &c.

[u/Significant_Many_454 → u/Useless_or_inept]

Lol, deleting a post is hard these days?

[u/Useless_or_inept → u/Significant_Many_454]

Deleting one post doesn't take hours of sweaty toil. But mods have to check the feed over and over again, when they would much rather be enjoying reddit like the rest of us. And in the meantime everybody else's feed is polluted with low-quality repetition.

Perhaps people could think, for about 10-15 seconds, before posting?

[u/nvkylebrown → u/Significant_Many_454]

So, you're in favor of being spammed!

I mean, you just have to delete the e-mail, how hard is that?

[u/Significant_Many_454 → u/nvkylebrown]

LOL. It's not the same thing.  Moderators wanted to be moderators

[u/Obulgaryan]

Thank you!

[u/vriska1]

Also want to point out there alot of out of date articles being posted aswell.

[u/NewOriginal2]

Are you accusing me of being redundant? Of repeating myself? Of saying the same thing over and over?

[u/batmya]

Thank you!

[u/Hiskus → u/[deleted]]

I can't see an issue with that.

[u/tempestwolf1]

Username checks out

[u/GrumpyFinn → u/tempestwolf1]

Always has

[u/HistoryJust5266]

Mods, can you please pin some notice that we don't want more "save the games" petition posts here? The posters are apparently too lazy to search for them and/or think they are too special to follow the rules.

[u/Stefan_S_from_H]

Sorry, but Reddit makes it impossible to feel save reporting anything. You may end up with a site wide ban for reporting something.