Timeline for How to / should I flag exact copy answers
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| Aug 4, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | Anubioz | Like those points mean anything ;) I never saw more than 20-25 questions in review queue and it seems very unlikely to me that you can gain even 100 points with that technique, since I (as any author) would be a bit curious why anyone would copy my answer. The only reasonable explanation is that the double answer was made by a single man from two accounts (f.e. first time he posted he thought there was an error, so he registered second time and posted it again) | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | To gain point :| As the 'review' queue only show one answer, not all. So it can be easy for someone to be tricked to upvote an answer that way. (review queue there if you want to see; serverfault.com/review/late-answers) | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | Anubioz | Why would anyone do that? I'm really lost here... | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | To quote the question: "Then I see an answer in the late answers queue, I check if the answer already exists. If the answer has been directly copied word for word from another answer on the same question ...." | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | Anubioz | Two identical answers by different users on the same question? No I think that's not the case here. We're talking about an earlier answer to a different question that was found via google and copied. I think that if this unmodified answer is correct, then new question should be merged with an earlier one - maybe by adding section to the original question, which includes alternative variants of this question, which were added later by other users... | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 12:51 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | I think the question there is about two answer on the same question (not two same answer on two different question). (thus a merge is impossible there) :) | |
| Aug 3, 2016 at 21:42 | history | answered | Anubioz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |