Timeline for Proper to downvote a user who posts the same answer later on?
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| Oct 21, 2014 at 7:30 | comment | added | Shomz | @J.F.Sebastian It has happened to me 4 or 5 times this year only. So far I've always managed to get it my way (flagged answer removed). One of the last times I had to bluff with a screenshot of their original answer I've supposedly taken before they have stolen mine. :) I did get a downvote in the end, but it was worth it because we ended up with one less stolen answer. | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 7:22 | comment | added | jfs | @Shomz: I'm member for 6 years (since beta) and I've never seen this (plagiat within the edit grace period). It means that it is very rare. @Shog9♦ says "That might happen, but it would require very careful timing and so far it hasn't been observed "in the wild"." -- if you know any instance of it, please, add it in the comments there -- so far there is none. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | Shomz | @Pokechu22 That's what the second paragraph is all about. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 18:11 | comment | added | Pokechu22 | Well, you can see the revisions and note that the post was edited to create a new answer. So long as it wasn't edited within 5 (I think that's the amount) minutes, it will still show the original answer and you can see that it has been plagiarized. | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | Shomz | @worldofjr, it says you are a member for 2 months... Anyway, what I wrote is just an addition to what's already described by others, I agree it doesn't happen as often. | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 21:49 | comment | added | worldofjr | I would suggest this is more of a problem for answers posted hours, days or months later. The number of (non-simple) answers stolen within 5 minutes is vary few and far between. | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 15:42 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | Yep, see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/138017/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/215438/… | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 15:39 | history | answered | Shomz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |