@TanMath Nothing's wrong with the question. It's just that the answer I linked to was plagiarized from Wikipedia. It has since been deleted. No worries.

@AtlLED and that is exactly why I left academia. As long as my company is funded, I can get (pretty much) whatever I need.

@Chris - why on earth protect biology.stackexchange.com/questions/39321/…

@MattDMo How did you know?

@AliceD To prevent the troll (which had multiple socket puppy accounts) from posting further answers. If the question itself should stand or not is something what the community needs to decide.

@Chris that makes sense :)

@Chris Up until just now I associated protected questions with worthy ones. This is an interesting use of protecting questions.

@AliceD Thanks. I though so, too :-)

It prevents answers from users with reputation below 50. And this naturally occurs more in questions, which have a high number of views.

@Chris Isn't it below 10?

They raised the bar for the late answer queue to 50

@Chris - I have a pressing question

How on earth do you put a link in a comment?

@Chris - i have been trying pretty much anything :)

@TanMath I don't see much use of putting a bounty on it. I'm rep harvesting to get to the 20k :) 200 rep in two consecutive days!

Yeehaaarrr for the trivial questions :D

I'm actually pretty pleased that my top answer is on an interesting Neuroscience question :)

@MattDMo How did you know? The other answer with the book image seemed more like plagiarism to me.

@MattDMo - I find the plagiarism issue quite interesting. A lot of copy-pasted material appears here on Bio, that even with a citation may be considered problematic in terms of plagiarism and copyright issues

@AliceD Adding links is quite easy. You put the text you want to asign the link to in square bracket [] and add the link directly behind it in round brackets (). So this would look like this: Google

[Google] (http: / / www . google . com)

@AliceD Possible, that I mixed this. I definitely excludes people with only one reputation.

@Chris AWESOMEEE !!!!

@Chris - I looked at the comments under that vague answer on the oxygen question, but ho&y smokes, what a guy 0.o

So you can check IP addresses? is an IP always the same? I thought they were often pretty dynamic?

@AliceD Yes, I can check the IP that the user is using (or has used at its last visit). And there where multiple users assigned to this IP.

@Chris U sneaky mod U

Often IPs are dynmic, but not in this case :-) This guys obviously has a static ip, which allows blocking it and getting rid of the guy.

@AliceD I had to rarely check this so far.

:-)

@Chris Modding comes with a burden, Chris

;-)

It's manageble :-)

@Chris Good! I am flagging away, but mostly "not-an-answer". Maybe not the most challenging flags, but perhaps often ambiguous for a mod to decide if it is really "not-an'answer"

Most cases that come up with "naa" are relatively clear.

Question: tag:virus and tag:virology — Different in theory but in practice, is there a reason not to have them be synonyms?

If only...

@AliceD Someone else had already commented, so I went to the wiki page to verify, then posted a much more strongly-worded comment and flagged the answer for mod review. You have more than 10k rep, so you should be able to see the deleted answer and comments.

I agree that plagiarism is an under-reported issue here. I really get upset when I see a long (or even shorter) answer that solely consists of cited quotes and one or two connecting sentences. I don't know how we should deal with those. Personally, I would never do that, because A) I don't want to plagiarize, and B) I have a strong urge to explain things in my own words and synthesize ideas instead of just parroting someone else's work...

@AliceD If you click the "help" link next to the comment box, it tells you all about the formatting you can use there...

@MattDMo Thanks for that! I will check it out.

@MattDMo I just totally agree with that. The wikipedia copy-pasted answers, or worse, the answers where an article abstract is pasted as an answer are troublesome

@MattDMo That's awesome. I might start doing that too. However, I have to admit that I too use figures taken from copyrighted papers. I posted a meta question on that and it is 'allowed' as I understand it.