It is an old thread but it still comes up in search results and I just thought to fill in the blanks for future generations...
The reason for adding the fix to showflat is to prevent duplicate posts. When a victim of this bug views their post flat just after posting it, the post is blank, and they inevitably repost it. Of course the admin can clean up later but who needs more work?
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