It's a cheap hack to get around the de-duping system for submitted links. This article was submitted 53 days ago, with a good discussion about it: http://news.y

It's a cheap hack to get around the de-duping system for submitted links. This article was submitted 53 days ago, with a good discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467612 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467612