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Is gaining rep based on SE content ok?

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Is it a problem if specific users harvest highly-voted questions on SE, then self answer, to farm a huge amount of rep? And if so, what can we do to prevent it?

I haven't seen it happen, but asking this question on a coding site seems like a pretty straightforward way to guarantee yourself a lot of rep with minimal work.

Even if this hasn't happened yet, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen in the future.

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ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago

To be honest... as long as everything is properly attributed, and as long as the content is good... I don't see a problem with this

becky82‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

Reminds me of Livestream plagiarism of question titles from Math.SE onto Quora. If I set up a script to livestream copy/paste questions from Stack Exchange onto Codidact (with proper attribution), what would you do? [PS. I'm not going to, but someone might.]

joel‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@ArtOfCode, I think the problem would be that it would devalue the rep/trust levels (assuming they can both be gamed). If they can be devalued that way, I'd suggest there's no point in having them