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Hi so, maybe it's just me but a few times I noticed a situation where an user will half answer my question, and another user will do another half. So both answers would be correct and should deserve credit, especially if one is taken from the other. I think this is important when it comes to points, too.

I've also had this happen when answering "how to get ___" questions, where one answerer would provide one way and I'd provide another way, both are technically correct and could be considered best answers.

My idea for this to prevent abuse would have to have a staff review the answers before allowing there to be more than one BA, up to any of their deemed standards if this becomes a thing. I'm thinking maybe a checkbox or a button similar to the "flag" one that says "request second BA" and a small description of why for the staff to review, and then having the two answers combined into one answer, giving credit and Best Answer points to both users (or splitting between).

EDIT: Sorry if there's typos or if this is incoherient-- it's nearly 1 am and I worked all day and I feel like a zombie. Tell me and I'll fix asap

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Splitting a BA is the same as just upvoting, is it not?
Technically, but my idea for this is more regarding two answering being good but only one can be at the top, even if they are two halves of a whole. If this is implemented, then they can both be shown as one answer
I don't think that the first point is a very valid reason to have this. An answer should not half answer a question and leave the other half for somebody else to answer. If an answer doesn't fully answer a question, it should be a comment.
I personally agree ht, but i've also seen it happened a few too many times just because someone forgot or missed something. An example i can think of for this is "where can you find (pokemon) in every game?" And let's say someone answers it, but forgets the spinoffs or something etc, but otherwise the answer is totally fine with sources and all. There's no point to completely reanswer it with the information with the first person and the spinoffs when you could just be like "for spinoffs, it's these locations and these encounter rates etc" and have the two answers combined to be selected as the BA.

I dont think it's fair to steal someone elses research because they forgot one thing just to post an additional thing or two it, when they could just be combined with the proper credit. Maybe im thinking of this too deep, idk, but i think it'd be nice
I think this would be best for long/hard to answer questions and ofc can be used under very specific instances, but i thinking having that option for the sake of long answers/hard questions would be okay, just so no one just copies and pastes the two answers of other users to create an answer together with both of them, despite that user not doing any research at all. That wouldn't be fair, imo
> There's no point to completely reanswer it
This is actually what I'd encourage as a solution to this problem (alongside editing the answer as PM suggests below). I understand the moral argument, but the truth is you don't 'own' information and it is fair for other people to post it too. If you're answering with a list of things that is incomplete, then it's also your problem for not being thorough.
As HT said above, half answers are not good answers. The goal of the platform is to find a singular best answer that covers all the info or gives the best advice -- having two BAs is a distortion of that. People shouldn't be posting answers just to add onto the previous one; they should include *all* the Pokemon games in their answer, to use your example.

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If there are two possible best answers, then you can just not select a BA for either of them. Let the upvotes decide.

And if there are "half answers" then the best solution would be to edit one of them to be a full answer. I guess that may be seen as unfair on one of the users, but again you can simply not pick a BA.

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I assume that means a "no"?