Can we get a feature that doesn't let people post the same picture / meme that's already been posted? The reposts are getting out of hand...

That would be nice. The number of repost is amazing.

You can report them as reposts :p

@ScribeOfGoD That's fair. It's just annoying to see

@mountEverest Can't really do anything else on a practical level. URL bans wouldn't work (just upload it again). Programmatically comparing them would not only be very expensive, plus would have a pretty high false positive rate.

In the end, the unit defense against eternal September is the community.

@psudo Another fair point. Sounds like it could be a cool machine learning problem, although I really have no idea about machine learning

@mountEverest checksum would be a quick way to check for duplicates. it wouldn't be perfect by any means since if anything is changed the hash would be different but it would cut down on repost

@psudo image comparison isn't that resource hungry, you could use sector depth recursion/keypoint decision trees for the analysis, run the previous posts locally and handle future posts in (more or less) realtime.

@Mitch377 true!

@StefanH thanks :)

@Mitch377 I've been noticing this too. No!

@wolt What if instead of not allowing you to post it shows you the post that you're copying?

@dfox, some interesting ideas in these comments on how the user end might look should you decide to implement some sort of "potential repost notification" feature.

Could do similar things using fuzzy search of commonly reposted jokes when the text of the rant is less than a certain threshold of words (and therefore more likely to be a repost of binary 10 types of people jokes and udp jokes that nobody got so many times that we all got them now)

But ultimately I think the silver lining is that the community has grown so much that now, that short of full fledged rants, a lot more of the content is duplicate because people have common interests and multiple people share what they find funny/interesting/entertaining. Until we get to some sort of follow/ignore feature that prioritizes posts everyone will be seeing everything.