Steemit has encouraged the sharing of old work. When it's posted on Steemit previously it becomes a different question. I personally experimented with this by reposting a photo/blog, Uptown No More, one that I felt was very good, but was first posted on the crazy day of July 3rd before the first Steemit payout was made.
Not long after editing of posts past-payout was disabled, imgsafe.org decided to straight up delete a lot of the images I had hosted there. One image, important for the blog post, went 404 and I didn't like having that in my blog history incomplete. It received less than $1 in votes and I thought it was much better than the pictures and blogs that made much more. When I reposted, I explicitly said it was a repost and gave the reasons why. If there is no plan to reintroduce edits to old posts, I think I will repost the other blogs with missing images that I like the best, using ipfs.pics as an image host, so that hopefully they will keep their images for a long time.
I can understand your point and in this case, it's almost necessary to repost! But what about writers?
For example, i have some nce stuff that got 3 upvotes. Some of my first articles. I'd like to give them a bit of a spotlight if possible.
Thanks for commenting!
It will be an option on Steemit at some point to cap or entirely disable post rewards (it's already in the Steem code). Reposting then will be less of an issue, if the feature is used.