: Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link to itself? It may look like a question for meta.stackoverflow.com, but I'd like to know if this decision has something

@Ravi8258870

I don't really use the {link} to get the permalink of a question (I get it from the URL), and usually by this time I have already posted or commented something and the URL looks now like this:
example.com/123123#annoyingCommentId666

Clicking the title will clean it and make it ready to be copied and shared with no worries of linking to a comment:
example.com/123123

That is really useful for me, I do this more often than you will think

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@Yeniel560

There is no SEO benefit as self-links are ignored by the PageRank algorithm. However, this is often done (on other sites and blog posts too) for a couple of reasons:


It allows you to refresh the page quickly, and in some instances without the warning that you are resubmitting postdata.
Similarly you can re-request the page from scratch, useful if you for example posted a comment with AJAX, navigated to another page, clicked back and the browser showed the old page.
It provides access to the true, canonical URL, without query string parameters and the like. And quick access to right click and copy the link address, eg for sharing.

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