I came across this user's profile while I was going through the close-votes queue and most if not all answers seem to be copied from other Stack Overflow answers or from external sources.
This is a small list of what I found. I suspect there are more as I haven't gone through all of his answers:
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is an exact copy of this answer
- This is copied from this blog
- This is copied from W3Schools (WTF? Really?)
- This is copied from this blog
- ...
Wow. This list continues.
This question (thanks to Martin for finding that one) could be considered as a duplicate, but it does not fully address my question. Here's why:
- Editing - There are over 140 answers -- I don't think it's easy (or appropriate) to edit all of them to add attribution
- Flagging - Flagging is not an option because of the number of answers
- Educating the OP - People already tried and failed. I don't think that's going to work either.
I'm pretty sure I can find more of such answers. I've flagged a few of them (maybe three or four) but I don't think that's going to stop him from continuing this behavior.
Should I flag all similar answers? Or let moderators handle this issue?