https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7h99ld/tips_on_how_to_check_for_reposts/
created by montemole on 03/12/2017 at 11:49 UTC
1 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)
My most recent submission[1] was removed from r/gifs for being a repost. It also seems to be the case for this r/nonononoyes post[2] but there's no tag on it saying so. I always check karmadecay.com before submitting a post and I didn't get any results so I submitted it. What I assume happened is that the original post was slightly different, so karmadecay didn't catch it. Wondering if there are any other methods for checking for reposts in the future.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/7h5t3k/seizing_the_prank/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/nonononoyes/comments/7h6w2a/ring_stuck_on_finger/
Comment by [deleted] at 03/12/2017 at 13:15 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by Algernon_Asimov at 03/12/2017 at 19:36 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wondering if there are any other methods for checking for reposts in the future.
Probably not.
The only way to check for reposts is to see if a particular URL has been submitted before, or if a particular title has been posted before. gifs are easily copied and rehosted on different sites, which gives them a new URL. And people can give them different titles when they post them on Reddit. Seeing as the URL and the title of a gif can both be changed quite easily, there's no way of checking if the gif you're submitting today was submitted yesterday from a different site or with a different title.