That's true, but it's also fine, as Reddit has many users who haven't seen something before and also has many new users who of course haven't seen said something before. So honestly, who cares about the resubmission filter? WE are the filter for all things. It's not even needed.

How do you know those thousand people downvoted out of repost spite? Maybe they just didn't like it, or didn't think it was funny, or maybe they disagree, or maybe they're just sick of seeing these kinds of posts as there is a lot of them, or or or....

And it's not just this one. It's all of them. Check the front page. 6000 upvote, 4000 downvote. 8000 upvote, 6000 downvote. 5000 upvote, 3000 downvote. Those are the current top three on the Front Page.

Actually, going by your logic of thinking, I'd say it's (currently) 2,688 people who haven't seen it before and 2,010 who have. So there's actually more people who haven't seen it than have. Although that logic is flawed as I sort of mentioned above. There are many reasons why people upvote and downvote. But it's still more people who liked it, than disliked it. And that's what it's all about. So I don't think you know or understand how Reddit actually works. Reddit relies on one thing, users. What those users do is pretty diverse. We thrive on up to date content? Since when? People call out repost in almost every single damn submission and a lot, if not most, of our submissions are old (lots of new too though).