In both of these cases, asker has misinterpreted (or just not read) the documentation and is not accumulating the text offered by the
It would make sense for just one perfect and informative answer to be grown and used in both of these cases.
We have the mechanism for "Duplicate Question" comments and this does seem to short-cut the problem of multiple answers to the same question but here the same answer applies to multiple questions, the questions are not the same, only the answer is the same.
It occurred to me that the concept of a Stock Answer could be used here. An answer could be posted by an observant member that merely contains something like
[@StockAnswer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8631299/823393) and it is rendered as an exact copy of the original answer.
Points scoring is open to discussion. Perhaps shared in some way between the original poster and the referrer.
I am aiming for something that can be chosen as an answer to the posted question while not duplicating (or rehashing in a less useful form) the same answer again and again.
Forgive me if this has already been suggested and rejected, I could not find the same idea elsewhere.