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So if some post gets a lot of traction or gets to the second chance pool after the other has been posted, there are two live posts. This is fine after a few days, but for a few hours it's a tiny problem.
Probably dang/tomhow change the details from time to time without warning, but this is guess model matches the behavior I saw.