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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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We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts o …
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We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others.
Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make suggestions to authors about improving posts, but the authors are not obligated to follow them.
In the end, all you really get to do is judge a post as it is. If you think it is badly written, downvote it. If you do that, though, please leave a comment explaining what you didn't like. Silent downvotes do the site a disservice, and leave the post author without any guidance as to what to fix or what you objected to. It also allows the author to ping you if they think they've addressed the issue. That gives you an opportunity to retract the downvote if you think the issue was adequately addressed.
We also don't want authors to rely on the system to clean up their messes. As we've seen Elsewhere, when you fix a mess for someone and then proceed as normal, they'll be back doing the same thing again, no matter how many comments you leave explaining what they shouldn't do. Correcting anything beyond obvious spelling errors and minor grammar has been proven not to work in the long run.
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