Timeline for Why "Please only post one answer to a question"?
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| Sep 21, 2011 at 5:48 | comment | added | Bobson | Different answers does happen, especially when the question is not clear. A person could give a good answer for something, but then the problem is found to be different, so a different answer is given. This happens with different users (one user gives an answer to the question and a different user gives an answer to the same question with a different interpretation). I suppose the original answer can be completely replaced with the new one once the problem is better understood, but then the other good answer gets hidden away. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 1:18 | comment | added | barlop | @Daniel Beck maybe if the user had chosen another that'd have helped, so who cares which helped the user. Which solution works well is something worth knowing, or which has issues, but comments show that. +1 I agree with you Jeff.. that generally one, but may be exceptions. | |
| Sep 11, 2011 at 8:43 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | if all the solutions in the answer are related, it's usually OK for the upvote to count on all of them. If they are radically different.. | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 12:37 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | I sometimes have that problem when reading an accepted answer. "now which of the three solutions presented here did actually help that user?" | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 2:18 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |