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8:52 AM

i thought the answers should be split

they dealt with two topics

@MikeFoxtrot I have no direct experience with this kind of things, but posting 2 answers on the same questions looks like a cheap way to game the system trying to get extra rep for no work.

The question is one and your answer is made of two parts, I see no reason to post 2 separate answers

MikeFoxtrot

the thing was that if people want to comment it will be rather broad. i don't know what policy says about this either.

Federico

but I would like also someone else to chip in

MikeFoxtrot

See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25209/…

"When you have two distinct answers.

It's better to post two different answers than to put them both into one answer."

but indeed even so it is not clear cut.

rather opinionated topic.

Federico

also there they were dealing with code solutions, where two alternatives might be compared, here you are dealing with two aspects that do not cancel each other out

MikeFoxtrot

8:57 AM

then again, it was two ways to approach the question: one that it is stupid to look at the dataset that way, and another that there are more ways to die in a plane than in a crash.

or limitations of the dataset, really.

Federico

I still do not see the benefit of having 2 separate answers

I wounder if we should make a meta post

MikeFoxtrot

good idea actually

but i'll slap them together for now

Federico

I'll make the meta post

MikeFoxtrot

attached them together in any case

Federico

9:14 AM

meta post up

Stack Exchange

Q: What's our policy towards multiple answers from the same user on the same question?

Prompted by MikeFoxtrot's multiple answers ( 1 & 2 ) on the same question. We had a brief conversation in chat and we agreed that having a site-wide consensus would be appropriate. Is it appropriate for a user to post multiple answers to a question? When yes? When no?