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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 ...
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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...
What setting will convince Windows menus to appear to the right, instead of left?
Because the answer was received quickly, I ...
user31438
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Bounty award allocation while suspended
I noticed the How can I remove DRM from my Kindle books? featured-bounty question but I also noticed that the user account only has 1 rep so I looked at the account and saw it was suspended network ...
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Why was my bounty returned?
I have posted this question about a month ago. As nobody said anything, I offered a 50 points bounty yesterday. So I got two answers, none correct.
To my surprise, someone returned my points, ...
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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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Can I award a bounty before 7 days has elapsed?
The help page for bounties says:
The bounty period lasts 7 days. Bounties must have a minimum duration of at least 1 day.
Does this mean I can manually award a bounty after 24 hours have elapsed?
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Clarification about bounty award allocation for a community wiki post
I see this "How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?" and see it states that "One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty".
I look over some of the ...
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How can I start a bounty for this Question?
How may I get Explorer to preview .m3u files as text?
I see no link for this.
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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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Can I award a bounty to somebody who solved my problem but did not answer my question?
I asked a question a week ago, asking what I thought was a bizarre problem (but turns out it's not). Two days and no answer so far, I decided to start a 50 rep bounty in hope of seeking answer, as I ...
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Bounty option not shown
I don't see the bounty option under the question I asked.
No one has answered yet and I thought if I make a bounty and offered 50 points, people might help more.
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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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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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Answering your bounty question
I have an open bounty question (qtcreator can't find qt) and solved the problem.
In those cases you answer your own question but mine has open bounty, what will happen to the bounty? I don't ...
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Remove bounty if I haven't awarded it yet?
I created a bounty on this question:
Sleeping a computer via batch file in Windows 7
But I meant to award it on a different one. Is there any way I can remove it and post it on the question it was ...
user201262
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Why was my flag to stop my bounty rejected?
I placed a +50 bounty on the wrong question:
Why can't I change Normal Style's 'Style type'?.
When I realised I raised a flag requesting the bounty be stopped (and the reputation ...
user269574
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Could this bounty be left open forever?
I opened this bounty, no answers yet and probably no solutions will be given anytime soon, because I really asked a hard, maybe impossible question, I know that and that's why I opened a bounty.
The ...
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How to share posts if no one is interested and not enough rep for bounties?
So I have this question still lying around with only a single comment showing some special keys, but I'm hoping for an answer that very well suits the aspect of the question.
It has been there for ...
user1256756
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How to fairly assign bounty?
I have a question with bounty here Reverse proxy to put header value as parameter to url with two answers. Each answer seems to me to be solution of 1/2 of my question. Is it possible to split bounty ...
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How to start a bounty as a reward for a question that's protected?
I ran into a tricky issue on OS X where a windows was being displayed on a second monitor that was not present. I found a question and an answer at Move an off-screen window back on-screen on Mac OS X....
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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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How are bounties cancelled?
How is a bounty canceled when the person is asking for nonsensical details about a question that has been clearly asked and answered?
Why do some RJ45 plugs have the lock release clip under a rubber ...
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Poster lost reputation when post migrated to SO
I encountered a puzzling chain of events on this post :
User posted a bounty on SU for all his reputation
I answered and was awarded the bounty
The post was migrated to SO. The bounty was deducted ...
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Can someone get a bounty for his own answer?
I know this sounds ridiculous and most of the stack exchange websites does not allow a user to get a bounty on his on answer. I know that user cannot award himself bounty for answer on his own ...
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A user can't add a comment on the answers of him own bounty, because it requires rep
I'm a frequent user on Stack Overflow** site, and very sporadic on Super User site.
I've reached the +50 rep on Super User site, then I did a bounty because I need to solve a problem.
Problem
After ...
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Question concerning the new code of conduct
I have read the new "be nice" code of conduct and would like to see whether
it applies to the behavior I have encountered in
this post.
This post has a bounty attached for 500 rep, which started a ...
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