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I have to admit that I upvoted the post because I had never seen this before, and the previous discussion is nearly 1.5 years old.

That said....how did this get resubmitted? They both have the exact same URL

---- # edit: I see...one URL is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/

The other has a slug in it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-languag...

I thought HN had some kind of redirect-autofollow that sniffed this kind of thing out? Or at least that's why I assumed hitting "submit" can result in a long delay, even before you're told that the title is > 80 (I wish there were a javascript validator for title length, while I'm pondering things...)




Nope, even just appending a slash to a URL will get you past the dupe filter. Even beyond that, though, the filter only looks at recently accessed posts, so something with that long a gap between reposts almost certainly wouldn't get flagged.




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