Comment by weinzierl

I never understood how attribution worked on Stackoverflow anyway.

    1. I post something to SO and the terms say it is CC-BY-SA. 
    2. Someone uses my post and properly links back to SO.
       SO's terms require this. 

Shouldn't the attribution primarily mention me, the author of the post? How can a link back to SO be required as attribution for my content? It's not that I assigned my copyright to SO, I just posted my CC-BY-SA content on their site. SO is just the middleman.

I'm OK with attributing SO and I don't doubt the terms are legally clean. I just goes against my understanding of CC-BY-SA. as well as the new SO MIT attribution construction.