Hey loki, i see you responded to me in a PM. i'd rather the conversation be had in this dying thread.

Hi, I'm not sure if I fully understand your point. The Clarity / Shepards Pie image were found in exactly the same way as every other image I have posted - randomly surfing around the net then if something is particularly interesting I submit to Reddit.

I thought the point is the voting system is that the community decides if something is worthy or not at that specific moment in time. It does mention on Reddit that you shouldn't complain about reposts. Just because you have seen it before. I tend to tell when a link is often reposed / tired as it gets quickly buried after minimal upvotes and a few downvotes.

If I were to use Karma Decay for every image - where would you draw the line? If Clarity had been posted in /hunting 12 months ago with 2 votes would it be acceptable to post? What about 100? 1000?

Looking on Karma Decay the Three Amigos picture was posted before on Reddit in /movies, so it would technically be a xpost. It received 1259 upvotes and near near 300 comments (no complaints about being a repost) Should this link have not been submitted because a lot of people seemed to not have seen the picture and appreciated it.

Your opinions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.

you are absolutely correct. the community uses the voting system to deem what is worthy. and that users shouldn't complain about reposts. but i am not a firm believer in 'if it's new to me/them' as an argument. but i don't make the rules. i can only vote. which i have. and my voting is open, so you'll see im consistent.

what i will say is this. in my very very short time here, new users that have a very lopsided amount of link karma vs. comment karma are a red flag. it's an account being built for something. for advertising usually. your 5 -6 weeks here with 15,500/1,900....that's.....abnormal. im not saying what you're doing is bad or wrong or nefarious. just....out of the ordinary. and out of the ordinary sometimes catches my attention.

so i just thought i'd mention it in a small thread, instead of one of the big threads.

but please. keep on keeping on. i hope i'm wrong.