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Unintended consequence #1: duplicated questions.

http://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/4021/numero-de-vezes-q... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21550842/amazon-cloudsear...

Corollary: answer "arbitrage" (translating existing answers for duplicated questions).

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Completely intended, by my read. It wouldn't make any sense if you couldn't ask a question that was already asked in a language you don't know.

FTA: "we expect almost every question asked on the Portuguese site to also be asked (and answered) on the English site."

It was the same user asking the same question, and the English version may or may not be machine translated.

It feels spammy, specially since the English version isn't up to par. I'm not sure this is what they had in mind with that quote.

Ah, I missed the identical users. That is an interesting situation, especially if a user might be fluent in both languages (which may or may not be the case in this situation).

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