While the consensus is that it is not okay to add someone else's linked code to a question, there is a post that is off-topic where the OP added an answer with code that would make the question on-topic.
Can the code from the answer be used to update the code in the question, and then the answer deleted?
If this is the case, then can this be done by anyone or should it be the OP's responsibility?
Is it okay to update code of an off-topic question using code from an answer?
The answerer has provided the code under the current user contributions license, so no concern for the user being a copyright troll. And what harm is there to Code Review by fixing the problem for the user?
Can the code from the answer be used to update the code in the question, and then the answer deleted?
Yes I've done so before. My interpersonal skills can be somewhat lacking, so getting a user to edit the question can be challenging. As such I have chose to just edit the question, downvote the answer (with a comment) and then vote to delete the obsolete answer.
Forcing me and others to have to do something we're bad at, when we could otherwise clean up the question, seems like unneeded red tape.
