Why does the title of questions also act as a link?

Question

If you click the top of this question, you go to the top of this question, as well as all other questions. Why?

Comments

Wynaut?

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Links are cool. Once or twice a decade, one of them shows up and saves Hyrule from the evil wizards.

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I would upvote that comment if I could.

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There should be upvoting of comments.

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This also acts as a link https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/81855/I-like-frozen-banana-tuna

Answer 1

It's a way to get the correct, "canonical" link for a question. Sometimes links can contain a bunch of extra parameters at the end (after a ? symbol) so that removes them. Maybe it's easier to right click + copy the link from there instead of the URL bar. Also on questions with multiple pages of answers, like the moveset questions, it gives you a link back to the first page.

Comments

Multiple pages makes sense.