A bounty is a way to get additional attention for a question by offering some of your own reputation for great answers.
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How can I undo my bounty?
I, by mistake, put a bounty on the following question:
How to use the both JavaScript validation and asp.net validation for a control
It now says
This question has an open bounty worth +150 ...
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Reduce Character Limit for Bounty Custom Text
I am suggesting dramatically lowering the custom text characters allowed in any bounty from 3000 to the length of a comment (600).
The reasons for this is as follows:
There are no no paragraph ...
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Existing answers repel answerers from bounties
I believe I see couple of patterns regarding questions with bounties:
a) In the case if a question has multiple answers, people tend to skip this question
I believe the thinking is following "Taking ...
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Unable to start a bounty using Opera Mini
I am unable to start a bounty using Opera Mini, despite the fact that pretty much all other JS/AJAX functions work.
When I choose to start one, the mini-wizard appears, as it should, but I cannot ...
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Slow user profile page load after having earned several bounties
I am noticing that the list of earned bounties loads noticeably slower when the user has more than 10ish bounties! The same slowness is noticed by activating the earned link on the list of bounties in ...
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Can I post a question to draw attention and place/award bounties for a community wiki post?
I'd like to create some bounties for this community wiki post, and award them the user(s) that contributes the most useful content.
But because it's a community wiki for a proposed Meta-FAQ section, ...
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Posting anonymously - but with a catch
I have read through most if not all topics concerning posting anonymously on Meta, but I haven't find any satisfactory topic.
Some people argue that it is necessary to be able to post anonymously. I ...
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500rep-500rep=?
Suppose that one has 500 reputation, and then devotes 500 reputation for a bounty.
Question: How much reputation remains? 0 or 1?
Remark: If this were a exercise in primary school, then anyone ...
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Is it good etiquette to use bounty to 'raise awareness'/'advertise'?
I'm the author of a new open-source tool which disrupts the previous best answer to several StackOverflow questions (specifically, the author of The BFG, a faster & simpler alternative to the ...
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Is it OK to start bounty for already answered and kinda popular questions (I posted)?
I found some similar questions, but nothing answers my situation.
For example, I think about these questions, I posted some time ago:
Is it safe to parse a /proc/ file?
Defining a variable in the ...
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Allow immediate bounties that cost 2x as much as they reward
Context note: this is coming off of questions Why can't I just offer a bounty for a question right off the bat? (where an earlier version of it was offered as an answer but seemed unlikely to be ...
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Awarding reps for excellent Questions / non-bounty Answers
Sometimes it happens that I asked a question (without a bounty) and got the answer for it explained in an excellent way. Some people not only just answer the question , but also :
i. Share hell lot ...
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Is it OK to put multiple bounties on the same question, if you don't really understand the existing answers?
I'm wondering if it's bad form, to put multiple bounties on a question on StackOverflow proper, because you did not get an answer that makes it click with you? i.e there are existing answers, but they ...
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Mandatory delay in offering a bounty [duplicate]
What is the rationale for not allowing to post a bounty on my own question right away? If my question is urgent enough for me to offer a bounty, why do I have to waste two days waiting?
EDIT:
I'm ...
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Textarea overflows dialog when offering bounty on a question [duplicate]
I just tried to add a bounty to a question and observed the following:
Basically, as I started typing, the textarea expanded and pushed everything leftward in the dialog, with some of it being ...
