Why some reposts aren't removed: Helping us with reporting reposts and recent popular cross-posts

Hi everyone,You're sick of reposts. We get it, we are too. We get more reports for reposts than any other rule violation. We investigate every single report, and reposts/crossposts take the most time. However, all too often we just get a report without any sources. Some posts get tens of reports claiming it's a repost or recent popular crosspost, but when we investigate the post we can't find an earlier occurrence.What it comes down to is, much like Wikipedia: [citationneeded]We can't remove these posts if we can't find the original. We want to clear out the posts that you've already seen. We just need your help. When you report these posts, please use the "other" reason and provide us with the source of the original post. If you don't have it or can't find it, that's fine. We'll still check it and see if we can track it down. But if you can provide this info, it will go a long way toward getting those offending posts off the front page.As a reminder of what we're looking for your help with...REPOSTS are posts that have been on /r/gifs before. These are not allowed on /r/gifs. If the original post has gotten a very small amount of points, we may allow it again, but that is not guaranteed.CROSSPOSTS are posts that haven't been on /r/gifs but have been around reddit. Crossposts are allowed under certain circumstances, and are even encouraged by reddiquette. We allow crossposts as long as they are posted to /r/gifs before receiving more than 1500 points in another subreddit within the past 14 days. After those 14 days are up, crossposts are fine!Thanks and happy giffing,The /r/gifs mod team via /r/gifs https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/6m15s1/why_some_reposts_arent_removed_helping_us_with/?utm_source=ifttt