I tend to look through the entries before I start voting, and seeing the same thing multiple times is likely to mean I downvote them all (if the picture already exists out there, all that the people in the collection of “copies” really did is find it)

Unless it’s a damned good picture… then I might upvote it anyway.

But yeah, once they start hitting -5 the leftover ones won’t have the stigma. I was surprised that monocle pic made such a comeback, but that could be why. I remember seeing about 4 of that same picture just after voting started and thinking “**** that, I’m voting up something more original,” even though it did fit the description better than other pictures.