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Your two answers were probably equally useful and very much alike, I don't see why they should be completely separate. … If both answers work, only one can be accepted. And finally: You're essentially gaming the system. By posting two answers that could also stand as one, you're getting double the reputation. …

Users who have a lot of reputation should lead the community by example – and part of this involves posting great answers where possible. … Leave a comment if possible and see if that results in better answers. There's not much else I can think of. …

With an increasing negative score, answers are faded out to show that they are not well received and thus of less importance than others—or just plain wrong. …

But more generally, if there are two duplicate answers, one lower quality than the other, simply downvote the other answer. … Low quality answers in the strict sense of being unsalvageable through edits are of course flaggable. …

TL;DR: Target your question to the worldwide audience too. 90% of our traffic is coming from search engines (reference). You can't know who these visitors are. Why I think you should have left the …

But: Don't forget that SE is also about the better answers getting more upvotes. … If I go through answers and there are two, one having answered the problem immediately but in a short manner, and one having clarified the steps even further, I'd probably give both of them votes. …

It allows for better search, helps giving more weight to the answers (even in a Google search) and categorizes questions using the tag system we already have. … Actually, it would even make more sense to be able to additionally tag answers. But that's another story … …

We generally review late answers or answers by new users, and anything suspicious gets removed quite efficiently. If you're a regular user, your answer won't land in a review queue. …

In the long run, people will see these edits and know how to post better answers. I don't think that downvoting and/or deleting those answers always makes sense. …

In general, links to other Super User questions/answers aren't real answers—at least if they don't go beyond what's stated there and simply say, "Look here, here's your answer". … Normally we don't delete accepted answers, but in this case the person who answered also voted to close the question as a duplicate, so I'd say: flag away in such cases. …

Jim and Yolgie's answers were deleted, and the formerly accepted answer was converted to a comment on Tim's answer. I think in such a complicated case going to Meta was the best choice. …

here's a very important point: If you're experienced enough in a topic to be able to sufficiently answer a question, you should actually be one of the first to have the privilege to downvote any wrong answers … The Sportsmanship badge is given to those who upvote competing answers. …

In that case, what we'll often do when we see these answers is 1) deleting the answer and 2) closing the question as a duplicate. … In the specific case you gave us in your post here, if we'll find that the current question is more general than the older one and answers to it would be equally applicable, we can reverse the typical …

I'd also like to point out that we shouldn't just hunt down old link-only answers to delete them. That's the easy way out. …