If it's exactly what I want, then I'd be ok. It's just that, that never happened to me. The closest I came was, I was checking a regex and realized I missed some cases, so I copy pasted the regex string from SO. I can't imagine a scenario where a >1 line code in SO can be exactly what my codebase requires. Regardless, my methodology isn't going to SO to find code, I go to SO to read the answers, understand then write code. I never thought when people talk about "copy paste from SO" they literally mean like copy someone's code and paste it to your text editor.