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Comments on Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker
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Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker
It can be tempting for askers to put more than one question in a post because it has the illusion of saving time, at least for the poster and maybe also for community members.
You might want to consider splitting any post with at least two different unrelated questions (not a "I mean to ask" second phrasing question), into several posts per the number of actual unrelated questions.
Maybe, the moment a mod recognized two or more questions the post will be locked and the mod will start splitting it (after any question which isn't the first was splitted, the post with the original question would be opened).
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The attribution would be both to the OP and to the mod
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If a post was already answered as is, an exception would be made (it won't be splitted)
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I can't say the same for answer posts, because answers are built pretty much directly upon question posts
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Such practice would promise modularity, reasonable longevity of question and answer posts and with the right editing it is also good for SEO
Mods already edit posts, so why not split them if they are obviously contain two different unrelated questions?
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Some questions are closely related, and therefore are better combined in a single question post. Answering such individual questions separately would be more trouble, would likely require duplicate work, and possibly cross-references to the other related questions or their answers.
It is the questioner's responsibility to think about what they are asking and separate the logical concepts as appropriate. This is just one responsibility of question authors, along with doing some reasonable prior research, writing the question coherently, and in understandable English.
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