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I have answered things with two answers when the two answers are significantly different and essentially represent two completely different, incompatible approaches.

I've actually done this more than a few times. As have some other users. Here are a few of mine:

I hope those instances represent me well. They were randomly picked.

There is clearly a line when doing things like this is silly. There's no point in suggesting somebody mv file /dev/null when they can just rm file and that's certainly not worth another answer. The same would go for some answers which should probably just be comments "Have you tried x, y, z?"

The problem is you want us to say one thing is right or wrong but I don't think the line is clear enough to set a rule on what people can and can't do with regards to multiple answers. "Keep it sensible and logical" is about the best I can do.

I have answered things with two answers when the two answers are significantly different and essentially represent two completely different, incompatible approaches.

I've actually done this more than a few times. As have some other users. Here are a few of mine:

I hope those instances represent me well. They were randomly picked.

There is clearly a line when doing things like this is silly. There's no point in suggesting somebody mv file /dev/null when they can just rm file and that's certainly not worth another answer. The same would go for some answers which should probably just be comments "Have you tried x, y, z?"

The problem is you want us to say one thing is right or wrong but I don't think the line is clear enough to set a rule on what people can and can't do with regards to multiple answers. "Keep it sensible and logical" is about the best I can do.

I have answered things with two answers when the two answers are significantly different and essentially represent two completely different, incompatible approaches.

I've actually done this more than a few times. As have some other users. Here are a few of mine:

I hope those instances represent me well. They were randomly picked.

There is clearly a line when doing things like this is silly. There's no point in suggesting somebody mv file /dev/null when they can just rm file and that's certainly not worth another answer. The same would go for some answers which should probably just be comments "Have you tried x, y, z?"

The problem is you want us to say one thing is right or wrong but I don't think the line is clear enough to set a rule on what people can and can't do with regards to multiple answers. "Keep it sensible and logical" is about the best I can do.

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I have answered things with two answers when the two answers are significantly different and essentially represent two completely different, incompatible approaches.

I've actually done this more than a few times. As have some other users. Here are a few of mine:

I hope those instances represent me well. They were randomly picked.

There is clearly a line when doing things like this is silly. There's no point in suggesting somebody mv file /dev/null when they can just rm file and that's certainly not worth another answer. The same would go for some answers which should probably just be comments "Have you tried x, y, z?"

The problem is you want us to say one thing is right or wrong but I don't think the line is clear enough to set a rule on what people can and can't do with regards to multiple answers. "Keep it sensible and logical" is about the best I can do.