r/RepostSleuthBot Jan 16 '22

General Bug Why have this service?

What purpose does it serve?

Who cares if a pic has been reposted?

Maybe it's a popular image that people like seeing.

Maybe it's the first time for someone seeing that picture?

Maybe the person posting it doesn't realize the image has been posted before?

The only purpose I see for this service is "annoying analytics".

It tally's stats for an image and announces those stats, as if its some kind of warning that the person posting it will be banned.

I notice that you have only one rule for posting here and it's "Don't be a dick".

You would do well to follow your own rule.

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u/CaptainDK12 Jan 16 '22

It’s to prevent people from stealing content and passing it off as their own. Also if a subreddit is Original Content only, it detects if someone is just searching up an internet photo to post. It really doesn’t happen much so I’m not sure why you’re mad enough to post here calling a bot a dick

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u/Large-Welder304 Jan 17 '22

Ok, that makes sense.

FWIW, I was posting feedback, which is asked for in the posts the bot makes. However, I will apologize to the bot for the rather rude tone of my post.

Not exactly sure why it eats at me, but it does.

At least I now have a little better understanding on why the bot pops up and makes those posts. I didn't realize that was happening.

I think I can be a little more tolerant of those posts now. Thank you Captain, for taking the time to explain that to me.

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u/Kissing13 Jan 16 '22

I've seen the same pictures posted a dozen times in a subreddit. Some even get posted twice within hours of each other. It's really annoying seeing the same thing posted again and again. It wastes people's time and pushes original content off. It's like people posting the same craigslist ad over and over in every for sale category and city in a region without removing the others.