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> We looked at users who copied all or part of any answer, or users who took any voting action (upvote, downvote, etc.) on any answer. Huh, I probably should h
by codesections 5y ago
> We looked at users who copied all or part of any answer, or users who took any voting action (upvote, downvote, etc.) on any answer.
Huh, I probably should have realized it, but the idea that Stack Overflow was tracking whether I copy an answer had never occurred to me.
(Mostly joking, I hope: I guess they could monitize that info for Stack Overflow Jobs, by certifying that a candidate has a low rate of copying answers!)
- donarb 5y agoTracking user's interactions with the site (or any site out there) doesn't have to be related to monetization. It could actually be part of SO's mission to make the site better and more useful to its users.
- fabian2k 5y agoThat was actually added for an April's fool joke that pretendend that you only had a limited number of copy/pastes. I assume they simply reused that code for this experiment.
- handrous 5y agoLots of sites track your mouse movements and key log you. Letting Javascript initiate connections was a huge mistake.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoGranted, it was an April Fools joke: https://twitter.com/ptkaster/status/1377427814052335618?lang=en https://twitter.com/ptkaster/status/1377427814052335618?lang... But it made me realize the code to track copy is there.