# Allow Accepting more than one answer

There was no recent (in the past one month) thread asking for this feature that I could vote for or add my comments to, so I started a new one.

The problem is that sometimes a question requires many steps to solve it, and there are many answers, say one which gives all the necessary steps and the solution but you do not understand some steps in the answer, and another answer after reading which you completely understand the first answer, but this second answer does not contain all the steps and the solutions. Sometimes, answers have hints to solve a question, and often you get a better idea to solve the question after reading all the answers.

It is not fair, in my opinion, to mark one specific answer here. Ideally, I should be able to mark 3-4 answers, if they all helped me substantially and are quality answers and there is no single answer which alone would help me to solve the problem.

• Upvote what is helpful. If there isn't a single definitive answer to the question, don't accept any. – user147263 Nov 21 '14 at 14:14
• Yes, I upvoted them currently. I still feel allowing to mark 3 responses would simplify a lot of things. – Swapnil Rustagi Nov 21 '14 at 14:16
• @Swapnil Award them bounty then! – Aditya Hase Nov 22 '14 at 11:51
• I would lose commenting privilege if I give a bounty. Not an option. But can we please consider what's wrong with being allowed to accept more than 1 answer? – Swapnil Rustagi Nov 22 '14 at 16:49
• So MANY downvotes!!! Can any of the downvoters explain why they downvoted this? What's wrong with this idea. – Swapnil Rustagi Nov 23 '14 at 4:00
• On posts tagged [feature-request], voting indicates agreement or disagreement with the proposed change rather than just the quality or usefulness of the post itself. Source – user147263 Nov 23 '14 at 4:08

• You can reduce the number of questions you ask by using Google search with parameter site:math.stackexchange.com. For example: n^5-n is divisible by 30 brings up more than one question identical to yours. – user147263 Nov 23 '14 at 4:19