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> Repetition is the enemy of curiosity I haven't found a source for that, but I don't believe it to be true and I'm curious why you do. I haven't seen the pre

• dang 6y ago
  But if you had seen the previous comments, that is, if you'd experienced repetition instead of new information, then they'd have been less curious and less useful. Curiosity wants to find new things, learn new things—it basically wants diffs. My source? Self-observation and observation of this community. Is it really a controversial point? Even when we mark stories as dupes there are often users who say it was new to them and they appreciated the post. That makes perfect sense. No one sees everything, and if you haven't encountered the earlier elements of a repetitive sequence, then for you there is no repetition. I'm always reminded of a second-hand clothing store in my home town called "New 2 You". But at a site-wide level it's not hard to understand that this is a stochastic process and we have to manage it globally. The alternative would be not to moderate repetition at all, and the community would definitely not prefer that.