Timeline for Is it correct to answer copying from comments by other users?
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| May 29, 2022 at 6:31 | comment | added | user16437736 | What if the answer IS the comment? I mean, the OP just copies the comment to his/hers answer, without adding anything? | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | Servy | @Yakk No, that's just not the case. If you notice a case of plagiarism it's entirely fine to just flag the post and let a mod resolve the issue. You are in no way obligated to try to fix the problem on your own. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 18:47 | comment | added | Yakk - Adam Nevraumont | A flag would be inappropriate before you had asked for the citation in a comment. (This does not mean it is appropriate after, it just means it is definitely not appropriate before). Do not bother mods with something you can at least attempt to handle yourself. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | Servy | @MatthewRead You should still be flagging the post in such a case, so that if there is a history of plagiarism it will become apparent to the mods. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Matthew Read | You can also just edit in attribution in the case where it's absolutely clear, no need for flags. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | Frank | You are getting all up in arms over hypothetical plagiarism (in your comments on others' answers). Can you provide a better example than the OP (a nontrivial question, for starters) where someone promoted another's comment to an answer and would be (in your opinion) guilty of plagiarism if they left out attribution to the comment? I support your position in principle, but it's really hard to make a nontrivial contribution via a comment and I see attribution as a matter of courtesy, not justice, much less law. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | Shawn Mehan | This answer gets the main points across very well as to why this should be allowed to happen. I wish to supplement with one additional point. I feel that there is also a useful editorial function for SO of having workable solutions found in comments recast as answers for easier voting and and easier discovery by other SO users (this is in support of @Servy's second and third points). | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:05 | comment | added | Spencer Wieczorek | One of the main reasons I see comments that can answer a question is mainly due to asking the user to try something simple that might solve their problem (sometimes due to not being able to run the users code). But not being sure if that's going to really solve the problem. Such as "Did you make sure to include xyz library?" or "It looks like you forgot to do xyz first, that could cause an issue". | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:00 | vote | accept | Miki | ||
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:56 | comment | added | Servy | @user000001 Well if the use really did copy content from a comment they need to cite it, even if they add onto it. The content that is quote does need to be cited, and not citing it is plagiarism. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | user000001 | A flag would be definitely inappropriate. In this case the answer also has an explanation how it works, the comment doesn't. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:49 | history | answered | Servy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |