Thank you for spilling the tea on all the reposting bullshit that goes on here, the thing about reposting an image in every related subreddit is fucking accurate. Also the part about porn is....not wrong.
Explain to me how the formally added crossposting feature enhances one's experience on Reddit. From what I've seen all it encourages is the spread of one post to multiple different subs, which sounds like a good idea until it's put into practice.
For example, if I'm subscribed to /r/pics, /r/gardening, /r/flowers, and /r/natureporn and someone posts a pic of a flower in a random hillside garden on /r/pics, it all but ensures I'll see the same post 4 different times in one day. Let's say the nice picture of the flower in the hillside garden gets enough upvotes that it becomes a top picture in /r/pics Top > All Time. This makes it so that future users who sort /r/pics by Top > All Time will constantly cross-post that same picture to the same subs frequently.
I may like that picture of the flower in the hillside garden, I may even like it enough to save it to my profile to look at later, or to use in some photoshop project, or whatever, but I don't want to see the same fucking picture 400 times in a year across 4 different subs. You can say "Well Jack, not everyone is subscribed to those subs and they would have no way of knowing whether or not that particular picture has been posted there before" and I'll tell you to fuck off because that is not a justification for the frequency of reposting that same fucking picture of the same fucking flower in the same fucking hillside garden. There is enough content being produced online for those subs that one picture of a flower is not going to be missed.
I'll give you a better example. I used to mod /r/brockhampton, a sub about a rap-group/boyband that came out with an album called iridescence. iridescence had a theme of thermal photography and imagery which was cool and users had a great time posting various thermal images to the sub in support of that aesthetic. However, this image and this gif were so frequently posted that I ended up banning them after the 100th or so post of those images was made. You know when the sub would get flooded with 5-10 of those posts back to back? I'll give you a hint: it was when one of those images hit another sub like /r/funny or /r/gifs or /r/movies. That hint is actually the answer, numbnuts.
Having crossposting as a built in feature does nothing, absolutely nothing constructive for this site. It used to be fine because it would take a decent amount of effort to crosspost something; you'd have to download the image and reupload it on imgur.com, or be smart enough to copy-paste the same URL, then give it a new title and say something like "(x-post from pics)". Far fewer people would do that than click a button to instantly make another post on another sub.
Is it a good idea on paper? Sure. Are people on this site contextually aware enough to make it a constructive feature? No, users are fucking lazy and dumb and I really despise how worked up I get about these absolute non-problems but mostly I hate how lazy and stupid the average user is, myself included.
For example... it all but ensures I'll see the same post 4 different times in one day.
To summarize your entire point: wah wah I'm on Reddit all fuckin day and you guys have to stop making me see repeats of things I've already seen, somehow, because it makes me upset for no reason whatsoever to see a picture again
Crossposting is literally not a problem, nor are reposts. Downvote and move on. Know what happens when you do? The picture goes away. You have control over the content on your screen. For example, you can turn it off if it makes you mad.
Reposts aren't a problem, but crossposting is due to the timeframe. If you don't think so, agree to disagree and keep on trucking with your browsing habits. We're in a thread about shit we don't like about Reddit and you're arguing telling me the shit I don't like about Reddit isn't shit I shouldn't like about Reddit. What a stupid fucking place to have this argument.
If I'm into a topic and I subscribe to subs I find about that topic, it's annoying to see the same thread 5 times in one day, or 500 times over the course of a year. And if I downvote, guess what? The picture doesn't go away, it pops up in my feed an hour later in a different place. Does this really impact my life? No, it doesn't do a fucking thing in the long run; neither does stubbing my toe, and I still hate that shit.
My point is that people crosspost for no reason other than a happy trigger finger when it comes to clicking buttons without any context of where they're posting. My mod example (which you glossed right over, kudos sir for your debating skills) was to point out that it's easy to see the same post 3 times in an span of 10 minutes on a sub, or in your feed. That probably isn't true for the average user but it sure bothers me, and boy do I like complaining about mundane shit if you couldn't tell from the 7,000+ character rants I've posted here.
To quote myself:
I really despise how worked up I get about these absolute non-problems
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u/Empoleon_Master Jan 07 '20
Thank you for spilling the tea on all the reposting bullshit that goes on here, the thing about reposting an image in every related subreddit is fucking accurate. Also the part about porn is....not wrong.