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mproud on Feb 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Day We Fight Back – February 11th 2014

How do duplicate threads sneak through the system?

ScottWhigham on Feb 11, 2014 [–]

The other URL ends in a slash (yeah, that's actually all it takes to "beat" the system).

harsh1618 on Feb 11, 2014 | [–]

No, this URL points to the /international page to which non-US(?) users are automatically redirected. The other one is the root URL.

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