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[–]James-Lahey 6 points7 points

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And? It degrades the quality of the sub.

[–]LP99 -1 points0 points

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No it doesn't, you're just being elitist. Removing content that has been posted before restricts people's ability to enjoy what they came there looking for. When you restrict the ability to post good content on the basis that it's been seen before, you will eventually dwindle to the bottom of barrel content, thus, "degrading the quality of the sub".

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points

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Imagine you and your friends have a beer tasting club. You guys all understand the policy of the club, and you bring great, interesting beers to the meetings. Occasionally you bring the same beer because someone missed out, or someone else brings a beer again because they didn't know it was brought before. That is all cool, it doesn't happen too often, and promotes everyone in the club trying every beer.

Now imagine your beer club is on the news and gets insanely popular insanely fast. You are left with a huge group who has no interest in doing their own work to find local breweries or import interesting beers. Instead they are going to bring up all the good beers you already knew about 11 times over, and then, as popularity increases, you are left with people drinking miller lite out of a can.

Maybe not the best analogy, but I tried.

[–]James-Lahey 4 points5 points

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Nothing's stopping anyone from going back through the submissions.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/comments/14z916/congratulations_rwheredidthesodago_you_are_the/c7hyah4
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