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How to handle several instances of unattributed/plagiarized answers

What is the best way to handle instances where there are many seemingly copy-and-pasted answers from other answers that lack proper attribution? There have been several questions posted dealing with ...
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1answer
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How to report sites/users that are plagiarising SO questions on other forums? [duplicate]

I did a web search for my question and found that my exact SO question was plagiarised in a forum post by someone else. My question was unique and this is clearly a plagiarism of my question. But ...
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1answer
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User making tons of tag wiki edits with plagiarized content

A certain user is presently in the process of creating tons of new tags and creating tag wiki excerpts with plagiarized content. For example, this suggested edit review, which is an exact copy of this ...
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2answers
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Giving credit for help [closed]

How should I give credit for someone's help in writing my code when part of the code that I put together was written by someone else? I want to give them credit for their work, but I do not know how ...
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1answer
172 views

What is the policy on tag wiki edits that appear to be copied from elsewhere?

I was just in the Suggested Edits queue and noticed that this user, RomanC, has been suggesting a lot of tag edits. As usual, I put the text through Google to check for plagiarism. Almost every single ...
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2answers
214 views

Can I copy content from third party sources into my SO answer?

In this post @MitchWheat commented with a link to his blog, exposing some useful content to the OP. I thought that this content would make a good answer and no answer with that content seemed to be ...
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1answer
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Should you flag Copy and Pasted answers?

I stumbled across an answer recently to a question that was copied and pasted (with some minor re-wording) directly from an answer of mine from another question. A: Why should I use PNG and not JPG? ...
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4answers
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How can tag wiki plagiarism be found effectively?

Here are some tag wiki edits that directly plagiarize without attribution of any kind (which can be easily found with Google). However, they were accepted, because many reviewers did not realize that ...
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3answers
355 views

What should you do in the event you are accused of plagiarism?

Context: I was answering this question on SO, and have run into a rather sticky situation. The question was a pretty trivial one, but the asker introduced some edge case conditions after I had ...
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4answers
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Moderator declined a plagiarism flag [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should I flag plagiarism for moderator attention? I recently flagged this answer for plagiarism. The answer reads: In an ASP.NET project, adding a file-based ...
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4answers
322 views

Is using Stack Overflow at work cheating? [closed]

I don't currently have a job, but, out of curiosity, do you think that using Stack Overflow is cheating? Is it somehow plagiarizing someone else's code? By asking a question, are you somehow ...
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3answers
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What to do when someone copies your answer verbatim? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Handling answers that build heavily on (or are copied outright from) existing answers Okay, so this guy copied my code verbatim, 6 minutes after I had posted my answer. ...
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1answer
131 views

What to do about a user who is plagiarising answers from other sites to build up rep? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Handling answers that build heavily on (or are copied outright from) existing answers I noticed a user on SO who seems to be copying and pasting answers from other sites ...
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votes
1answer
148 views

What is the SO rep-fraud policy?

What is the official way (if there is any) to deal with people who commit reputation fraud? With that I mean following behavior: Posting of abbreviated version of old answers, to gain reputation. ...
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2answers
355 views

Should I flag plagiarism for moderator attention?

Until now, when I saw content that was simply copied from the web without an attribution, I flagged the respective posts for moderator attention, and moderators always deleted them -- in accordance ...
6
votes
1answer
266 views

Blatant plagiarism of my answer on a bounty question [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Handling answers that build heavily on (or are copied outright from) existing answers A user answering a bounty question has blatantly copied and pasted my answer into ...
6
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2answers
128 views

Should I report (does any one care) when another site rips off Stack Overflow?

I was looking for some way to speed up automapper and I found this question: Need to speed up automapper...It takes 32 seconds to do 113 objects That was not really my issue so I kept looking down ...
13
votes
4answers
590 views

Handling answers that build heavily on (or are copied outright from) existing answers

I provided an answer to the question "LINQ GroupBy continuous time" which was specific to the question asked. Another user engaged positively with my answer, as there was a small conversation thread. ...
7
votes
1answer
243 views

Copyright/plagiarism issues with others' source code within yours

I plan on answering a question with some source code on StackOverflow, but I have formulated my answer using some source code I found elsewhere — it was an answer to another question. I planned on: ...
2
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1answer
335 views

Stack Exchange site copy

I probably found a case of plagiarism of Stack Exchange code (i.e. a site that's probably powered by Stack Exchange scripts). I don't know how its authors found the script(s), and I don't know if it ...
5
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1answer
131 views

How to deal with answers exactly copied from other SO answers

I can't believe there is no question about this, but I didn't find one. What should I do, if there is a question Q2 answered by user B which is literally copied from the answer to a formerly posted ...
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Is it okay to copy-paste answers from other questions?

This one leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, but I defer to others as to whether it is appropriate or not. In this question, I wrote an answer to a question based on my experiences; it was upvoted ...
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3answers
547 views

Is developerquestion.com just a ripoff?

Is developerquestion.com a Stack Exchange ripoff, or is there some valid connection to SE? I.e. does it use the Stack Exchange framework (it really looks very similar)? Interestingly, it mirrors all ...
6
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2answers
335 views

Would it be wrong to copy-paste questions from Quora?

Since Quora just went public, I decided to have a look around and found certain topics like Gmail that contained questions that would be great for the Web Apps SE-site. However, would it be ...
1
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1answer
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What to do about obvious copyright violations or cut/paste answers? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to deal with questions or answers plagiarism from copyrighted sources? What should be done when someone answers a question by simply cutting and pasting text from ...
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