Just FYI... If you'd like to track forum sliding, track which accounts repost. We've been seeing the same crap posted 4 and 5 times in a row. Different accounts are typically used to make it appear innocuous. The amount of this type of activity has increased dramatically recently, and the rate is much higher than when we had a higher active user count at our last URL.
When you see some pic posted 4 or 5 times in a row, keep in mind that it's to make you keep your attention on that material instead of something else that may be going on.
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You usually only see reposts if you sort by /new I don't think it's a big deal
I agree that if it were only on new, that wouldn't concern me as much. The ones I've noticed have been on hot, with replacement reposts coming in soon after they age their way off the first page. Plus, I found it interesting that the increase in this trend has been pretty recent.
I won't gripe about it without proposing solutions, so here are some ideas.
Introduce post tags settable by users, and let users pick which tags they want to filter out. The filtering would take some minimum number of users to have tagged it with a keyword to make misclassification more difficult. Additionally, obvious misclassification can be tracked and handled. (if you so choose)
Image hash checking. When an image is posted, hash it. Compare hash against currently existing hashes, if it exists, warm the user before posting. If you like, they can still post it, it will just automatically be tagged repost.
If you'd like help coding the solution, I can help with that too. I tried to just kinda list out pseudocode here so developers can take it and run with it.
I'm willing to give most of them the benefit of the doubt since many users don't sort by New and might not have seen that the new meme they just discovered has already been shared.
Of more concern are the low-quality text-only posts that have been proliferating as of late despite many deportations by multiple 'Pedes. Those strike me as a much more egregious violation of the Forum Sliding rule.