another user copied my answer and tell OP that she has already updated answer

Question

Today I just give the answer to this question

How to add css only for checkout page of rwd theme in Magento 1.9.0

and same time other user

https://magento.stackexchange.com/users/52030/rita-jose

Also, gives her answer in a different way

But when she show my answer accepted instead of her

she update her answer and tell to OP that she has already updated her answer and force OP to accept her answer

here is her update history

https://magento.stackexchange.com/posts/196995/revisions

Is this kind of behavior allowed?

Here is here chat screenshot with that user

Answer 1

@Murtaza,

we cannot prove that she is copied your code logically but as per human behavior as,it is truly indicated that she was copied code.

Because of she's code has mistake a <<checkout_onepage_index> translate="label"> ,So should not run.

But it is bad that Abhilash Narayan has accepted without worked. As this an user call so , we did not stop him to accept the answer.

In case, i guess ,we can only **do down vote to rite rose answer**.

Also upvote correct answer.

As suggestion,Murtuza Zabuawala donot mind this type work from other user. You will see lot time.

Please carry on your good answer to mse

Answer 2

Let's look at this from 2 different aspects.

1. The legal one: Yep it's legal. A user can edit his/her answer whenever he/she wants as long as the terms and conditions are followed. If there are clear signs of plagiarism then there is a problem, but in this case your answer was a short one and It's not really obvious that the other user copied your content. There are significant differences between the 2 answers. Also one user can accept any answer without the need to explain the choice.
2. The moral one: Is this moral? Not really, but there no destructive actions can be taken against the accepted answer just for that. All you can do is leave a comment under the other answer saying that this is not moral. Just make sure you keep it clean.

Answer 3

I am sorry that you feel bad for such an immoral action. But we cannot do anything in this situation against the answerer.

As a community member, you should not feel bad now because you have 8k points in the site which itself shows your positive inputs to the community. But Rita is a starter and we should appreciate her efforts to answer the question.

Here the "immoral" behavior came from the OP in my opinion. He resolved his issue from your answer and hence accepted it. Then he just gives credits to Rita's answer. There may be multiple reasons for that. It may be due to:

• Rita may be his friend.
• He felt that Rita's answer is more descriptive than yours and thought that answer is better than yours (in later stage).
• etc etc.

As you can see, reasons are plenty. Suppose the second one is OP's reason to accept her answer, does it become immoral? It's a question that we need to ask ourself.

The point here is, you are doing well here and you should always try to be a good community member. Good community member always improves the content of this site and always have a positive approach to any action. A good community member also encourages other community members for their contribution.

If they did anything wrong or immoral, then you should guide them and tell them through a comment that it is not what we expect from a community behavior.

We are not here to teach others morality, but help each other and improve the content of this site.

So emotions aside... a positive and a helping mentality beside. :)

Answer 4

Give answer and expect nothing that my mote on MSE. I recommend same to you. If someone copy your answer let them copy. Gaining some extra FAKE POINT does not make them good developer. In the end it is OP choice which answer they accept. Don't take thing seriously on MSE. I think the single comment was enough for this kind of behavior or directly contact with MOD.