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Does it bother anyone else that people circumvent the dupe-prevention code on HN by adding a CGI question mark to the end of the URL? This link was submitted q
by w1ntermute 16y ago
Does it bother anyone else that people circumvent the dupe-prevention code on HN by adding a CGI question mark to the end of the URL?
This link was submitted quite a while ago[0] without the question mark, and it clearly didn't gain a lot of traction, so in this case it was a good idea to resubmit it. However, it seems wrong that the dupe-prevention code isn't more sophisticated.
0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000239 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000239