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Going back in browser encourages accidental duplicate posting.
I wrote an answer to a question, followed a link somewhere, then went back in the browser (Alt back-arrow in my case).
Somehow I managed to go back from where the answer was posted. I saw my answer in the edit window, and thought to myself "Oops, looks like I forgot to click SUBMIT", so did that. Then I saw I had actually submitted two answers. Of course I deleted the second one as soon as I realized what happened.
I vaguely remember this happened once or twice in the distant past.
What, if anything, can and should we do about this? I don't know enough about web serving to know what's reasonably possible and practical. This is a minor issue, so doing nothing is an acceptable answer. I tagged it as a feature request in case this is a simple and easy thing to address. I've seen other web sites that simply don't let you go back from certain states, but that's usually for authentication reasons.
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