Timeline for Posting multiple solutions in a single answer
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| Jun 29, 2012 at 18:39 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @Kortuk you are letting a belief in the merits of voting trump the way engineering is actually practiced. Providing a variety of solutions to a problem is an important thing to be able to do; prematurely dividing and having them selected between by 3rd parties who do not have full knowledge of the problem is inefficient. At any rate, your opinion is not holding sway here - it's common for posters to provide multiple solutions together, multiple answers from the same person tend to happen only when they are extremely distinct or provided at different points int the evolution of the question. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 17:08 | comment | added | Kortuk Mod | @ChrisStratton, I heavily disagree with that. I rarely see someone post more then 2 answers in a single post. If someone honestly has 5 good workable ideas I would like them to share them and allow the community to do its job and sort for the users which options are good ones. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 17:06 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @Kortuk - that's not a workable approach, as it would often see people posting 5 answers to a given question. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | Kortuk Mod | @ChrisStratton, In my opinion it allows a user to vote specifically for the technical content of the answer and improves clarity of the site, as jeff said is a pretty good rule for this. | |
| Nov 21, 2011 at 5:53 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Something the split-it-and-vote argument seems to miss is that when the sub-answers present a variety of tradeoffs (as almost everything in engineering does), selection between them should be driven by those technical tradeoffs in the context of the specific application requirement. Voting is better for evaluating things like the clarity and accuracy of answers than in selecting between design tradeoffs - especially as the latter often requires more information about the application than has been posted. | |
| Sep 5, 2011 at 16:00 | history | answered | Russell McMahonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |