While ♫ living it up in the CVQ,♪ * I came across a dupe question being closed as a dupe of a question which already had an answer. I thought "Hey that's silly. I should just follow the link and propose the grandparent as the original instead of some arbitrary middle question."
So I got to the grandparent, copied the URL, and went back to the CVQ to present the better dupe. I got an error:
questions cannot be duplicates of themselves
Reading the two questions again, it dawned on me:
Should this be some sort of safeguards in place for this? As entertaining as it was, it's hardly useful. But the worst part was anyone could have gone along with it, since it's not plainly obvious what's about to happen. Furthermore, the user who voted to close clearly meant to go the other way, but accidentally did it this way instead. (We've since discussed it and his vote is now retracted)
At first I thought this was a geniusly diabolical audit. It's not.
Original question:
What do numbers starting with 0 mean in python?
Its flagged duplicate:
Why does this print the wrong number in python?
Observe that the title of the original question, and the title of the link in the question closed as dupe are identical. Circular dupiness!
* That really should be the title of the Stack Overflow theme song
