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The bounty optional message box is misleading
When setting a bounty, I have the option to set an extended explanation of what I require. The input box allows me to input newlines and blank lines, which leads me to think that the full ...
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What if there are no good answers to a question with a bounty? [duplicate]
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My bounty is about to end and I’m not sure I like the answers. What do I do?
Does one have to accept one of the given answers?
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Should a bounty prevent a question from being closed
This question should be closed as not constructive or too localized. Yet it cant be voted closed, since it has an active bounty.
Shouldnt close votes take priority?
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Why did I have to place a 100 reputation bounty instead of 50?
I have recently wanted to post a bounty for 50 points however 50 points was not an option that appeared when I clicked "start a bounty". This forced me to post the bounty of 100 points.
I have read ...
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Windows 8 contest - bounty tile awarded early
I've just started a bounty on a windows-8 question and despite not having awarded the bounty, I got notified that I qualified for the award a bounty tile in the contest.
Should the wording be changed ...
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Can one offer a bounty for more rep than one has?
I noticed this question has a bounty on it for 100 rep, where the OP (at the time I'm writing this) has 67 rep. What is the relationship between a bounty you can offer and the rep you have earned?
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Over 13,000 questions with no answers!
We have over 13,000 questions with no answers, this feels somewhat like a concern to me.
Some other ideas than just answering include:
Give bounties to the highest voted questions, helping them get ...
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Bounty system : case of bounty awarded but no acceptance
I have lately encountered several cases where a poster has awarded the bounty, but has not marked that answer as accepted (or any other answer).
This is the symmetric case to the grace period ...
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Bounties for Meta topics
On MSO, bounties are used extensively to raise awareness about specific issues.
Child Meta sites don't have bounty support.
The reason is stated in this related MSO topic: Child Metas don't have ...
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What is a grace period for a bounty?
And why is it not described here?
Also, just out of curiosity, when did this come into effect?
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Why can't I award the bounty to my own answer
I answered my own question, why can’t I award the bounty to my answer or do something to prevent it from being half-awarded to the top-voted answer?
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Proposal: Sponsoring some Community FAQs and Canonical Answers
The other day in chat, Daniel Beck and Surfasb helped come up with the idea of sponsoring questions with bounties to create or improve some Community FAQs and canonical answer posts.
If you're not ...
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Reasons for Bounty
I just started a bounty on a question of mine, when I was asked for the reason why. Unfortunately none of the answers I could select were totally applicable. If I had the choice, I would have liked ...
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can I promise a bounty, but only put it in place once there is an acceptable answer?
I have a question that will require extensive work, and is unlikely to be solvable within the bounty period. I'd like to offer the maximum possible bounty for it, but I absolutely want that bounty ...
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Will awarding bounties remove privileges?
If I award a bounty, and my rep therefore goes lower, do I lose the privileges I've earned? For example, if I was just at 1001 Rep, and put up a bounty for 50 Rep and awarded it, do I lose my ...
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Can I award a bounty on an already-accepted answer?
A few days ago, I asked a question and quickly received an answer...
How to convince menus to appear to the right?
Because the answer was received quickly, I never got the chance to offer a bounty - ...
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Bounties of more than 200 points
If the daily limit for earned points is 200, what happens when your answer is selected as the correct one and the bounty on that question is for more than 200 points?
See this question as an example. ...
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Waiting period to start a bounty?
I posted a question early this morning. So far it has very few views and no answers or comments. It's a complicated topic and I want to add a bounty to attract more attention and hopefully get an ...
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Why was bounty not awarded?
I'd like to understand better the bounty system. Apparently the bounty on question Gateway / Switch hybrid wasn't awarded by the questioner. But also not by the system itself when the period expired.
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Why can't I add a bounty to this question?
I've asked this question a few days ago, and while Jeff's answer is pretty cool, it doesn't really answer my question. So I'd like to add a bounty to maximize the chances of getting a good answer. I ...
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What happens to bounty if there are no answers to the question once the bounty expires?
I have some bounty assigned to a question on a different SE site. This question has been open for 11 days now, and the bounty expires in 3 days. Currently there are no answers, so what would happen to ...
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Change to the bounty system
I think the bounty system is flawed slightly. Currently if you don't assign the bounty to a user before the time expires half will go to the user with the most up votes. Even if you do award the ...
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What happens to bounties when a question is moved to another Stack Exchange site?
Just wondering what happens to the reputation.
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My bounty is about to end and I'm not sure I like the answers. What do I do?
Hello guys,
I've put a relatively large bounty (350) on a question I asked, and now the bounty's about to end. (Just to put you all in context, I was looking for a non-crappy way to use a physical ...
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Questions with expired bounty
In case of questions where the bounty amount expires, I believe the bounty is supposed to be given to the highest voted answer after the bounty was announced, with atleast 2 upvotes.
However, how ...
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Does bounty apply to a CW question?
On this question the OP opened a bounty, however the question is Community Wiki. Should bounty's still apply to these questions?
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To clarify I am trying to determine if the bounty will actually ...
