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  • Don't mind the downvotes, you did the right thing posting an answer to your question after you found it elsewhere. You could however make the answer "community wiki" as it's not really your own. Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 8:42
  • @StéphaneChazelas done Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 10:25
  • @StéphaneChazelas really? Are you saying simply copying content from another Stack just for the sake of some ill-defined benefit to searching is the right thing to do? I haven't ever heard of SE network sites having such a policy, and IIRC for beta sites this explicitly discouraged. I don't have access to exact timeline, but it doesn't look to me like OP posted a question, found an answer, and then copied the answer. Rather they had a question, found the answer, and then decided to repost it elsewhere, making a new question. Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 15:29
  • I think I'll flag this for moderator attention and let them decide if this is the sort of posts we want to encourage. Otherwise there are probably millions of posts on other SE sites that could be copied here, and plenty of bots running around to do such copying. Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 15:31
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    Mods don't get to decide policy, as you know, so a comment from a mod would be irrelevant. For what it's worth, I personally see no problem with that but that doesn't mean it's OK with everyone. As far as I'm concerned, bringing in useful content while attributing its source is a net positive, yes. Commented Dec 22, 2024 at 13:46