I'm with kleinbl00 mostly on this one. The problem isn't really reposts, per se, it's dilution. We all knew it was going to happen with the last wave of redditors, and despite efforts to keep it down, which we did everything we possibly could to keep it the way it was, you can't stop that mentality. Reddit gets 6% of the American public, and they're absolutely the standard, everyday people you see on every site that don't just lack the ability to find the way the system works, the lack the ability to even see that things work differently in different places and just want to put their own shit forward to get seen and have those fleeting moments of recognition like a heroin addict for some bullshit buzz. The concept of "discussion" has been vastly altered by places like reddit and it shows here, where once we had a topic come up, somebody put forward a thought, and a conversation bloomed from there, we now have a topic come up, and everyone puts in their own thought, all top level, no responses, and no conversation of why or what they want to convey outside of 'here is me saying something'.

I sure as fuck don't know how to fix it. Maybe there isn't a way. No matter what you do you can't stop those types of people. This is one of the only places I still come to because I want it to be fixed. Tumblr was a time suck that I was getting nothing from due to diminishing returns. Reddit is a cesspool but it's still a pulse on some of my niche interests, but that pulse is faint. Facebook is facebook. I want Hubski to work because it's the best site I've ever been to in a ton of respects, but there's also not any other option right now.