Timeline for Waiting period to start a bounty?
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| Sep 14, 2011 at 8:14 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Questions with bounty cannot be closed. We need a period of time to filter off-topic questions before users can protect it like that. Also, @Mike if you're in that much of a hurry, chances are your question is very specialized (read: too localized) to begin with and has little value to others. | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 0:02 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | I doubt there's enough of a usage case scenario for that, but you can always make a feature request for it here on [meta.su] or on Meta Stack Exchange. | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 0:00 | comment | added | Mike Rowave | For cases where it's important to get an answer more quickly, it would be good to have the option to offer a bounty immediately or within a few hours after posting a question. And it would make sense to have the rapid-offer bounty also expire fast like in 2 or 3 days, so people won't use it unless they really want a fast answer (and to increase the incentive to answer quickly). | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 21:16 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | The idea is that you should give it enough time to see if you'll get any good answers. If you haven't gone 2 days yet you haven't given it enough time to see if there'll be any responses. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 21:15 | comment | added | Mike Rowave | What was the reason behind the mandatory 48-hour wait? I can understand not wanting to have complaints from new users losing nearly all their rep points because they don't understand the bounty system, but that seems too restrictive for more experienced users who should understand the system better and would have more points to spare. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | Mike Rowave | OK, I see it now. It was embedded in the hidden text on the FAQ page so I didn't notice it before. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 21:01 | history | answered | nhinkleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |