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Yes, I agree. At the time this was the only English link I found. The BBC is much better, and it's a European issue. I cannot edit the link or title.


You can email the mods and ask them to do so. Footer contact link and mention “FP #x” somewhere in the subject.


What’s "FP" for?


False Positive of course. Why type of a full word with no ambiguity when you can confuse everyone with some obscure abbreviation ?


Functional Programming


Floating point?


Furry Platform


front page?


Maybe, but it seems odd that someone would refer to a submission by a numeric ranking that changes constantly.


If you wish to refer to the submission uniquely in the subject, as of a few years ago anyways they requested appending ` (1235676423)` to the end of it with the ?id=1235676423 of the comment/post/whatever that you're writing about. I tend to do so more in emails sent from a keyboard than from a mobile phone for UI reasons.


Hey I’ve seen people use email addresses as unique, immutable identifiers so who knows what crazy thing people will do.


Okay, I guess. Half of that is a far more understandable mistake, and the other half makes things easier for everyone.


Fix Pls




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