I would advocate for each answer being posted separately for two reasons:

1. Combined answers may contain one good and one bad answer. In those cases, both voters and the OP may be conflicted in designating their votes (or acceptances), since upvoting an answer may be an endorsement of the bad answer, and downvoting a good answer is "throwing the baby out with the bath water". This lack of precision may serve to detract from participation.

2. Combined answers may offer two separate good answers. If there are two good answers, the voting by the community can help discern the best of two good options. By combining the answers, this handicaps the Questioner from the benefits of the community input, in an important way.

Unless we are considering a very strict institutionalization of 1 answer per submission, and 1 submission per user, or some modification to the voting process - both of which I would be disinclined to do - we should advocate for 1 answer per submission, and support users to make multiple submissions.

I would advocate for each answer being posted separately for two reasons:

1. Combined answers may contain one good and one bad answer. In those cases, both voters and the OP may be conflicted in designating their votes (or acceptances), since upvoting an answer may be an endorsement of the bad answer, and downvoting a good answer is "throwing the baby out with the bath water". This lack of precision may serve to detract from participation.

2. Combined answers may offer two separate good answers. If there are two good answers, the voting by the community can help discern the best of two good options. By combining the answers, this handicaps the Questioner from the benefits of the community input, in an important way.

Unless we are considering a very strict institutionalization of 1 answer per submission, and 1 submission per user, or some modification to the voting process - both of which I would be disinclined to do - we should advocate for 1 answer per submission, and support users to make multiple submissions where multiple, separate answers are given.

One check on "serial equivalent answers" could be adding a flag for "multiple equivalent answers submitted". A programmed process could combine those answer from a particular user that are flagged. This would be a simple append process, ordering it first by votes received, and then in order of time of post. To manage votes, perhaps we should only keep the highest vote tally, and forfeiture of the vote from the other posts.

I would advocate for each answer being posted separately for two reasons:

1. Combined answers may contain one good and one bad answer. In those cases, both voters and the OP may be conflicted in designating their votes, since upvoting an answer may be an endorsement of the bad answer, and downvoting a good answer is "throwing the baby out with the bath water". This lack of precision may serve to detract from participation.

2. Combined answers may offer two separate good answers. If there are two good answers, the voting by the community can help discern the best of two good options. By combining the answers, this handicaps the Questioner from the benefits of the community input, in an important way.

Unless we are considering a very strict institutionalization of 1 answer per submission, and 1 submission per user, or some modification to the voting process - both of which I would be inclined to do - we should advocate for 1 answer per submission, and support users to make multiple submissions.

I would advocate for each answer being posted separately for two reasons:

1. Combined answers may contain one good and one bad answer. In those cases, both voters and the OP may be conflicted in designating their votes (or acceptances), since upvoting an answer may be an endorsement of the bad answer, and downvoting a good answer is "throwing the baby out with the bath water". This lack of precision may serve to detract from participation.

2. Combined answers may offer two separate good answers. If there are two good answers, the voting by the community can help discern the best of two good options. By combining the answers, this handicaps the Questioner from the benefits of the community input, in an important way.

Unless we are considering a very strict institutionalization of 1 answer per submission, and 1 submission per user, or some modification to the voting process - both of which I would be disinclined to do - we should advocate for 1 answer per submission, and support users to make multiple submissions.