A while back I came across this question.How to connect an old motherboard with a 12 pins power connector?
All of the then posted answers were entirely incorrect. I posted several comments and my own answer that even contained links to the correct replacement parts.
Before my answer could garner enough up votes to overtake the first incorrect answer from Appleoddity, Appleoddity edited their answer basically stealing my answer. (Including my in comment recommendation to not hack it and replace it with the correct part.)
Here are their revisionshttps://superuser.com/posts/1249428/revisions
Appleoddities answer went from an actually wrong answer to a correct answer, but only after I did the actual research to provide the correct answer. The only attribution given is the very last (buried) comment attached to the answer.
Now in all honesty Appleoddities final answer is much more wordy and looks great with a nice embedded picture and everything.
I'm not a whiner, so my primary concerns are about fairness and about how this affects willingness of anyone to participate in this site.
While life isn't fair, this seems a bad precedent. The problem is that at this time I am much less inclined to participate if my answers can be simply plagiarized.
Basically I'm looking at someone else getting 34 upvotes (compared to my 4 upvotes) for an answer that I did the actual work for.
I'm wondering if there is a policy for this and/or how handle this or should I just let it go and assume that this is acceptable behavior on this site.
