The highest voted answer on the original proposal[1] authoritatively asserts that absolutely everyone wants attribution. It uses the example of O'Reilly ripping off answers for a book without providing attribution. Like you I get my fix from simply helping people out and I would be overjoyed if someone ripped off an answer of mine and put it in a book (sans attribution). However, like that highest voted answer, don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone is the same.
The obvious solution is to allow people to choose the license for their answers. That is still a bad solution because it violates this principle:
> I don't want to make it harder to use code in my code.
For that reason I don't mind having people providing an attribution code comment when they use my answers because a blanket rule-set is easier to follow than dozens of different rule-sets; especially for something as completely inconsequential as a code snippet.
The highest voted answer on the original proposal[1] authoritatively asserts that absolutely everyone wants attribution. It uses the example of O'Reilly ripping off answers for a book without providing attribution. Like you I get my fix from simply helping people out and I would be overjoyed if someone ripped off an answer of mine and put it in a book (sans attribution). However, like that highest voted answer, don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone is the same.
The obvious solution is to allow people to choose the license for their answers. That is still a bad solution because it violates this principle:
> I don't want to make it harder to use code in my code.
For that reason I don't mind having people providing an attribution code comment when they use my answers because a blanket rule-set is easier to follow than dozens of different rule-sets; especially for something as completely inconsequential as a code snippet.
[1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271113/168017