[HN Gopher] How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow ___________________________________________________________________ How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow Author : JadoJodo Score : 22 points Date : 2021-12-30 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (stackoverflow.blog) (TXT) w3m dump (stackoverflow.blog) | JadoJodo wrote: | I initially thought this would utilize some sort of | GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/etc-wide scan to compare code in public | repos against that of those provided in answers on StackOverflow. | I would still be curious to see that, but this is obviously more | direct. | yesenadam wrote: | What am I missing? The picture "Copy Events by Post Score"[0] | plots, for posts with various point scores, how many times they | were copied. But for 0 - 100 on the x-axis, this is a virtually | clean, solid curve, as if all posts with 45 points, say, were | copied exactly 13 times, all posts with 46 points, 14 times etc. | I don't get why the data points are all on a single curve. | | [0] | https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hkdnDDP4Vx0XOMt_VWX09qKURy... | redman25 wrote: | This makes me curious, how are stackoverflow questions licensed? | Is there any harm in copy/pasting? | gs17 wrote: | It depends on when it was posted: | ttps://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing | | >Content contributed before 2011-04-08 (UTC) is distributed | under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.5. | | >Content contributed from 2011-04-08 up to but not including | 2018-05-02 (UTC) is distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA | 3.0. | | >Content contributed on or after 2018-05-02 (UTC) is | distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0. | hobs wrote: | And if you want an easy way to download it | https://archive.org/details/stackexchange | account-5 wrote: | >... we set up a system to react every time someone typed | Command+C ... | | So only people using Mac's then. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-30 23:00 UTC)