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My first instinct was to call this a repost as I remember seeing this like 4 years ago on reddit but this is a different platform altogether.

Though it Is worth the reminder to Treat yo self

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Should you even call something out as a repost when the last time it was posted was 4 years ago?

After all, millions of people have been born and grown up during that time

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I mean yeah that’s true.

But on reddit reposts were everywhere and it was very common for bots to karma farm by doing so, so calling it out had a purpose.

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People who have already seen something know they’ve seen it. They can just skip it. To somebody else it will be new. The vast majority of items being called reposts on reddit were things I had never seen. Whining about reposts might give someone a false sense of accomplishment, but I found it to be useless noise.

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My thoughts exactly. On reddit I used to reply to repost complaints, which I find annoying, by saying that they were the most reposted thing I saw. But tbh their frequency has seemed to decrease, almost as if they’re being auto-removed. If so, I appreciate it. A subject showing up repeatedly just means somebody’s still interested in it.

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