Every day is the same. Someone posts on breaking news and others soon follow on with new posts on the exact same subject.
Most often it's pretty much the same story but just links – at best – to a different source and with a different title. Such duplicates are supposedly against the sub rules – it doesn't need to be the exact same source and/or title to breach the rule.
There's even a way to report such posts (3 dots, Report, Breaks r/Epstein rules, Duplicate post). Yet although I've often reported them myself, they still remain active days later.
Noticeably there's a hard core of a few posters who keep duplicating others' post subjects just about daily and multiple times (mentioning no names – you must know who you are!).
Usually it's deliberate & blatant farming of upvotes & karma points, which unfortunately works for the abusers, only adding to their upvotes.
An acceptable exception is a new post that adds a major new angle to a previous post on the same subject. For example, Melania's speech – a big running story that had latest reactions by key public figures flooding in for days afterwards.
I ask readers to not encourage duplicate posts by upvoting them. Look briefly down the board first for any earlier post on the same subject, and report any offending repeats (fwiw). And call them out for it in the comments.
Let's try to keep the sub uncluttered by repeat posts. They only dilute some valuable content that deserves our best attention.
Low-effort & dross posts make things bad enough already, without clogging up the sub with unnecessary repeats.
Rant over. Thank you for reading and sorry for (ironically!) cluttering the sub on this occasion.
