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gojomo on Oct 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitte...

I suspect it's just to prevent gratuitous exclamation points in submission titles. ("Best ever new app!" "You won't believe this!" etc.)

thwarted on Oct 17, 2010 [–]

Heh, that sounds like something that should be a per-user option.

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