Please, copy-cat Github's easy "Copy to Clipboard!" for code-snippets in questions and answers. Copying code snippets, like long code, is tremendously hard. Format corruptions and inaccurate copying between SO and an editor are highly irritating. I am not encouraging you to stealing, but remixing for the sake of usability.
Arguments for
- easier on devices such as iPhone, PDA and laptops (not everyone has a scrolling mouse)
- would-be-as-unnoticed as the links: "link" or "flag".
1)
Not copying something properly != data corruption.2)
Don't put reasons against as you're clearly biased to the idea, and it shows.