Thank you for the explanation @acidyo. I'm using steempeak too and agree that there is not much difference between those two posts.
I used travelfeed frontend for that post which triggers travelfeed as the first tag. I understand that the post appears in the community only if the community tag is used as the first tag (correct me if I'm wrong) which wasn't the case for that post. So I found it a great opportunity to cross post it to the OCD community.
I am however not sure if I'll use the function again as I find it strange that the autovotes appear on the cross post as well. It doesn't seem fair to me that people who trust me and set autovotes on my posts should vote for the same post twice. Do you know if this is how it is going to work or is this some kind of a bug that will be fixed in the future?
The autovotes are a big reason we'd prefer cross-posting to be done by others instead of the original author. This will also make it less spammy if it's a "universally normal thing to do", except for sockpuppets, etc.
We're hoping it will be a great tool to empower new and more niche communities.
Oh, I have apparently missed this information :) It makes sense now...
Agreed, if others would cross post instead of the original author it would make more sense and it would be great for the author's exposure too.
Yeah, not saying we're against it but it would be nicer if that's how it happens, especially if the author gets a lot of autovotes it feels wrong to doublepost with cross-posting.
Exactly! I'm getting quite a few and was feeling like a fraud :) At least now I understand how it works and won't cross-post my own posts anymore..