I find it very weird too. I copy and paste a lot from documentation, or GitHub issues, but generally SO questions are very idiosyncratic. Maybe it's the langua

I find it very weird too. I copy and paste a lot from documentation, or GitHub issues, but generally SO questions are very idiosyncratic. Maybe it's the language you work with? If I copy and paste React code from SO it'll 100% break my app due to incompatible abstractions, so it doesn't make any sense to do it. However if I need a complex generic Typescript utility type, copying things verbatim is usually fine.