I came up with this idea here, getting 130 (and counting) upvotes.

(reddit.com self post here: http://redd.it/f35x3)

WHEREAS I am sick of seeing the same damn cat-on-a-roomba post over and over and over again

WHEREAS every Redditor deserves a chance to see the cat-on-a-roomba, regardless if it was posted before they joined, or during a time when they were not watching Reddit

WHEREAS seeing the same content over and over makes me tired of Reddit and degrades my experience

WHEREAS I wish to hide such repeated posts from my view whilst browsing Reddit

WHEREAS it is not obvious whether clicking on a Reddit post titled "Check this out..." will lead me to the !@#$ cat-on-a-roomba again

WHEREAS using the "hide" feature to manually eliminate all the reposts would be more work than actually using Reddit to entertain myself

WHEREAS complaints of reposts and links to the original post are a common sight in the comments section

WHEREAS a newcomer might want to see the discussion on the "original" cat-on-a-roomba

WHEREAS downvotes due to a repost may hide cats-on-roombas that newcomers may find interesting

I PROPOSE a solution to all of the above problems.

1. A new link shall be created and grouped with "share/save/hide/report" under each reddit submission, labeled with something to the effect of "log as repost". The word "log" is chosen over alternatives such as "flag" to avoid a negative connotation, and to suggest the action of adding information.

2. Clicking on the "repost" link associated with Reddit story A will bring up a dialog window. The user is greeted with a large, friendly text input box, inviting them to paste a URL to another Reddit story B. This URL shall be given as evidence that posts A and B refer to the same content. It is important to understand that A and B may actually be linking to different sites, e.g., A is linking to the 38th reblogging of a cat-on-a-roomba, whilst B is linking to the 517th such reblogging. As even the video itself may have been re-compressed or gif-ified, it is hereby asserted that the only foolproof way to find such correspondences is to rely on Redditors with a mild case of OCD.

3. The system shall confirm that the URL points to another Reddit submission. If the link points off-site, the system shall search for Reddit posts that refer to given URL and present them to the user to confirm that this is, in fact, the Reddit post about a cat on a roomba that they were thinking of.

4. Multiple "original" posts may be suggested by multiple users. There are two possible (non-exclusive) ways to ensure accuracy:

• Expose all "original post" proposals to other users, who may review them, and or confirm/disavow them. These proposed "originals" will be viewable next to where users enter their own repost URL. This way, a user may come to log a particular repost they are thinking of, find it there, and instead merely confirm the find with an upvote or some equivalent thereof.

• Repost data from users is gathered silently, and a graph of "similarity" is built and maintained behind the scenes on Reddit's servers. Repeated reports of a repost are used to strengthen the certainty that A and B refer to the same content. Multiple reposts can be found and grouped by following relationships in the similarity graph.

1. A filter option shall be added to the Reddit sidebar titled "Hide reposts". When this option is enabled, all stories will be hidden from the view of the user if and only if he has clicked, voted, or commented on another post which refers to the same content.

2. The blue info box to the left of the comments section shall be amended to contain a list of all "similar" stories, which are determined by the information collected from users in the manner above. In this way, users may follow discussion about the content across multiple Reddit posts.

I HEREBY DECLARE this to be a Fucking Good Idea, and dutifully call upon the proprietors of this fine website to knock their sizable heads together and make this happen.

Signed,

-angrymonkey

there is nothing more sad than clicking the envelope and not having any mail....

edit: There's even a comic about it..

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We've already got regional subreddits, but there's no easy way to group them or find them. Also, new redditors get the US ones e.g. News and Politics. Great but only if you are from the US.

Why not allow Subreddit owners to define where they are from (say by Iso country code with the addition of 'International') and then allow people to see subreddits based in a particular region only.

New redditors could also be assigned a starting list of subreddits based on where they are from (by IP address). e.g. get the 10 top International ones plus the 5 top local ones. Obviously they could then change their list.

I have been thinking for a while that it's pretty annoying when you make a post and then suddenly it has like 4 down votes and nobody says a word and it is never seen. I was thinking that if the first to downvote had to make a comment it would help people wonder why their stuff is getting down voted and help increase quality on reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins

It's the "official" place for suggestions, admins look there. I'm confused as to why this subreddit was created?

Some websites don't allow viewing from a frame to avoid phishing, and as a result, websites such as flickr, twitter, and youtube (all commonly posted on reddit) show up blank when the reddit toolbar is enabled (useful when opening many links, so you can remember the context and immediately click through to the comments).

So, my suggestion is to add a reddit toolbar exceptions list. The toolbar is enabled by default, but links that include base urls added to the exceptions list will show up without the toolbar, removing the pesky frame problem.

This should be a matter of coding in a simple exception for loading the toolbar right? It would involve having to read in the url and check it against a list of sites, but I think improving the toolbar could make for a better experience for people who just signed up. It might even be worth making the toolbar on by default, but I could be getting ahead of myself.

I often read my new messages, then I glance at the top right and think 'oh, i've got new replies' and click on the orangered again, only to find the page is empty.

How about this Reddit:

Reddit already operates based on upvotes and downvotes.

A new subreddit called Polls/Surveys could be made.

OP would ask a question in the title.

OP would post 5 or 6 responses that may cover the entire spectrum of answers under the question. These responses would always be at the top and could only be upvoted with the condition that you can upvote only one answer and they don't count towards Karma cause we all know how important Karma is.

I think this could be very effective and it keeps the surveys local.

This way, replies may make sense.

As I understand it, the voting stats aren't shown for the first hour or so. I still see a lot of good links voted down to zero by just one person.

How about collecting downvotes but not displaying them until 2 or 3 people have downvoted a link? That way a concensus must be reached before a link drops out of sight.

Sometimes redditor2 asks redditor1 a question, but redditor1 hasn't had the chance to answer it yet. Redditor3 (me) then moves on and forgets about the whole situation. It would be nice to mark redditor2's message so that I get new mail for all of its replies.

Do any of these /r/suggestions ever go anywhere? ;)

Maybe right next to the up/down arrows? I use a touch-pad and I regularly click the user-name link instead of the "hide" link because they're so close together.

Is there a theme or greasemonkey script or something that will do this?

Right now, the only links are "perma-link" and "delete". I've posted a comment earlier today, then some time later noticed a spelling error. I had no way of going the comments page directly (a comments link would also be nice under the article title), and that submission was no longer on the front page, so I first had to search it first, then find my comment and edit it.

Despite efforts to hide personal information if you dig far enough into someone's history you can find little tidbits of information about them. Personally I'd like the ability to hide all of my comments that are older than one month or so.