Yes and no. When we talk about duplicates, we talk about it in the context of this subreddit, which is r/privacy. Your post was a duplicate of someone else's post to the same subreddit. We advise all contributors to check if someone else has posted something about the same subject before posting it themselves.
Your screenshot shows five posts of the same link to five different subreddits.
Yes. Except crossposts circumvent those checks by our AutoModerator, and the original post is a crosspost. We haven't yet figured out how to close this loophole, so that's why we're having this conversation right now :)
Removed: Duplicate
Nice.
Didn't you post the same thing 5 times?
https://imgur.com/a/PCtR4rt
Yes and no. When we talk about duplicates, we talk about it in the context of this subreddit, which is r/privacy. Your post was a duplicate of someone else's post to the same subreddit. We advise all contributors to check if someone else has posted something about the same subject before posting it themselves.
Your screenshot shows five posts of the same link to five different subreddits.
I see. But doesn't the system automagically tell me that my link had been shared to the same subreddit before? (it didn't). Thanks.
Yes. Except crossposts circumvent those checks by our AutoModerator, and the original post is a crosspost. We haven't yet figured out how to close this loophole, so that's why we're having this conversation right now :)