Recently, there's been a tendency to post an entire batch of questions in quick succession.
e.g. '(word) with' vs. '(word) at' (cf. “Employment with” vs. “employment at” and its siblings).
This is not just similar to the "Possible Duplicate" syndrome; it could be worse in some cases.
Should we answer each of these individually at all?
Could we have a mechanism to merge them into a single generic question?
Should we advise posters to avoid the practice?
Should we answer each of these individually at all?
If you think a question is a duplicate, vote to close it. Related questions are not closed as duplicates, though.
Could we have a mechanism to merge them into a single generic question?
Questions that could be possibly merged are the ones that are exactly duplicates. For related/similar questions, we could create a canonical question used to answer similar/related questions, where the answer is used as comprehensive answer for any related question, when creating such question is possible, or worth doing it. Merging a question asking about saying working for/working at with a question about working at/working in would not make much sense.
Should we advise posters to avoid the practice?
What we can do is pointing the OP to the duplicate question, when a duplicate question exists; in the other cases, we can point to any related question. Apart that, I don't think we can say to the askers not to ask a question because is related to another question already asked.
