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Dealing with answers in comments.
I actually wanted to post the same question since this issue has been bothering me for a long time, but I found this post (and lots of duplicates), so let me just add my 2 cents here.
I think we have ...
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Writing answer on behalf of someone else
There is nothing wrong with the second scenario.
If you write a comment which contains an answer, then you forfeit any claim to getting credit or points for that answer. If you wanted credit, you ...
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Accepted
Someone's answer is completely copied and pasted from my answer, and their answer got accepted.
As mentioned in the comments, you must raise a flag in these situations, and the moderator team will handle it.

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