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Many posts turn into copy/pastes of solutions found elsewhere. A direct result of: 1) not allowing answers that are just links to elsewhere, regardless of how appropriate or canonical the resource and 2) a mad dash to answer first to maximize internet points (karma).

Will they start policing their own platform for copyright woes?



1) broken links are kind of a big problem. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/300916/i-estimate-10...

2) plagiarism (regardless of copyright) is strongly discouraged. http://stackoverflow.com/help/referencing




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