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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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Should we allow adding rep to bounties to extend their duration?
There are a few variables here that I was thinking about:
Spend rep to extend a bounty for a certain amount of time
Allow the rep spent to extend duration to add into the original bounty
Create ...
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Bounty description box design issue [duplicate]
I was starting bounty over my this post and when I started writing description and its get over two lines its box get disturbed (and some text also interpreted wrong)
another example (( in ...
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Why would a user set a bounty and only accept the answer after the bounty is over?
This just happened to me in this question:
How to create a rule for a contact group/distribution list in order to move emails to a certain folder for Outlook 2013?
I gave the user two acceptable ...
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Can we have the ability to cancel bounties we've just started?
I see that not only myself, but other people have accidentally added bounties to the wrong question. Can we add the ability to cancel a bounty within the first few minutes of creating it? (Or perhaps ...
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Space between sentences missing from bounty grace period notice
The grace period notice for bounties is like this (for example):
This question had a bounty worth +50 reputation from gparyani that ended 23 hours ago.You have 10 minutes to award the bounty
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What is preventing two users from offering and earning bogus bounties?
A practice I've seen is the following:
Someone (person A) asks an elaborate question
which doesn't get enough attention
Person A sets a bounty
several answers come but person A is always unsatisfied
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Moving points between different Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
I'm a member of several sites.
Some have questions I enjoy answering. Some have questions for work I need answering as I know little about it. Some have questions I answer because I like helping out.
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Entering bounty message looks strange [duplicate]
I just submitted a bounty on a question and I typed a custom reason. Here is what I saw:
I know that I typed the bounty message correctly, because it displays properly in the actual question. This is ...
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If did not receive a solution after setting bounty [duplicate]
What should I do whenever I do not receive a correct solution for my question even set a bounty?
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Tracking attempts to sleaze bounties
This isn't a feature request, because I don't have a concrete answer, but I noticed a behavior, it seems poor, and if we aren't doing something about it, I feel like we should be doing something about ...
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Do undeleted answers qualify for a bounty?
On the question Query multiple collections with different fields in solr the following sequence of events happened
The question got opened
I saw it and gave an answer
After the lunchbreak I saw a ...
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Why is it a privilege to set bounties?
Why is it a privilege to set bounties? I think that everybody who has a minimum of 51 reputation (because that is the minimal value of bounty), should have the ability to set bounties. It's that ...
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Bounty offered deleted without any notice
I had a bounty of 100pts offered on What are some best practices for large-scale development in Python?, with a detailed description of why and what would be expected.
The bounty however somehow got ...
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Slightly change the bounty system; award bounty to comment if there's no answers
If there's a post that has no answers (and has a bounty offered), but has helpful comments, could the bounty be awarded to the author of the highest voted comment, or allow the OP to award the bounty ...
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Count of bounty question has been toggling
I am participating on pets private beta. Today a user added a 200 reputation bounty on his question. We all know that the question will appear in the featured tab. Since the bounty has been added, the ...
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Why are bounties enabled during a private beta?
I have access to the Pets private beta. Someone has recently added a bounty to their question.
Since this is a private beta with at least a week and a half till it hits public beta, the visibility of ...
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Probability of getting an answer by bounty
I have invested 150 rep into a question but got no answer. Lately, I invested another 250 rep, but no answer yet. Now I'm curious if my questions are too bad (or too specialized), or if the investment ...
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Why would moderators thwart my attempt to award a mistaken bounty to someone else?
So a couple of weeks ago I ran into something that I couldn't figure out, and I considered it a hard question. So I posted a question on stackoverflow like I sometimes do. I had planned on offering a ...
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I accidentally gave the wrong person a bounty, who can I contact to undo? [duplicate]
I was reading a comment that I assumed to be from the person who I intended to give the bounty to and accidentally clicked +50 for the wrong answer. Sorry I was in the middle of doing something else ...
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Is there any way to sort bounty questions?
How to sort recent bounty questions in Stack Exchange sites? I can't see a way to sort questions in the featured-tab. Am I missing something?
Any option to sort bounty questions in ascending and ...
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Recommend me a resource question should be closed. But with some bounty not?
This question asks to recommend a book to introduce functional world to the C# developer.
Such a question without a bounty would be closed because of:
opinion based open end discussion. There is no ...
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What's the etiquette for rewarding an editor by offering a bounty on a question he's answered?
Background
I strongly believe that in many cases a good edit provides more lasting value to SE than a good answer to a mediocre question. A good question will bring good answers that will be more ...
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Increase reputation score to give bounties
I hardly look at questions with bounties anymore, on SO. The questions are too numerous and, more importantly, too low quality. The last few I've looked at were so poor I would have voted to close ...
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Why cannot this question with an open bounty be closed?
I have seen a number of questions like:
"Do this work for me please" or without "please"
If such a question doesn't have a bounty, I can downvote it if I want or flag it for closing. But if it ...
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That comma should not be there
I've just stumbled over this answer and noticed the nice +550 bounty it got. Curious to see how many bounties it won, I hovered. And saw this:
The comma might be small, but I just couldn't miss ...
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Add feedback when awarding a bounty in the mobile theme
I awarded a bounty using the mobile site, which worked great. The only thing was that when I clicked award bounty, there was no feedback to say that the bounty was successfully awarded. I only got the ...
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Should the “bounty ending soon” email contain a link to the question? [duplicate]
I have found questions complaining and status-completed that the text should be different when there are no answers, questions objecting to even getting emails when bounties are expiring, complaints ...
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Can I game the Legendary badge with self-awarded bounties?
I just set a bounty on one of my questions, where I have the only answer so far. If nobody else answers, or if nobody else gives a deserving answer, I will award myself the bounty and get +150 rep ...
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Some reasons given for a bounty make no sense when there's no answers
It strikes me that the most popular reason for awarding a bounty on a question is because the question hasn't received any answers thus far - however, when starting a bounty, whether there are any ...
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Why doesnt bounty come back to the owner when it expires? [duplicate]
I had a bounty on one of my own questions, which I then answered. It was the only answer and it received up votes from other users. It would be nice that if you put a bounty on a question and it ...
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How does one correct the question on which a bounty was placed?
Okay, I love this question: What translation of Augustine's Confessions is the easist to read? and awarded a bounty on it.
Or, at least I was like 99% positive I was on that question.
For some ...
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Allow rep lost to the repcap to be used for bounties
This was prompted by this chat message:
@PearsonArtPhoto We're each losing at least 140 rep today due to rep cap ... we should put in motion idea to be able to spend excess rep on bounties, maybe ...
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Answerer starting bounty on question? [duplicate]
Suppose A answers question Q with a clever answer. Then, to gain more reputation, A starts a bounty for 50 points on Q with the expectation (it's a gamble) that the extra attention will collect at ...
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Bounty notification doesn’t show title
I don’t recall putting a bounty on … \… and what about it, anyways? That’s a fragment. We should consider revising it.
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Why are you starting this bounty? - does it matter for views count?
I have started bounty offering 200 points of my hardly earned reputation ;-)
Cocos2D CCRenderTexture alpha / opacity blending problems
All I want is the question to be answered but the question is ...
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Cannot add bounty [duplicate]
I have this question opened for 2 weeks and a half and I want to add bounty to it. I have read the process to add bounty but I cannot, as the add bounty button does not appear in the webpage. I tried ...
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Flag declined on clearly off-topic question protected from closure by a bounty. Have guidelines here changed?
I recently ran across what to me is clearly an off-topic question on SO:
Is there a Template Engine like Velocity or Freemarker for Delphi?
This question is clearly asking that someone recommend or ...
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How can I award a bounty to a particular answer? [duplicate]
I have a question which is already asked on Stack Overflow, and I found one of the answers to be useful to me. How can I award a bounty to a particular answer?
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“Bounty awarded by Community” [duplicate]
I just found a good question via Google. There is this answer which links to a self-made project by the user. It has awarded a bounty worth 50 rep by the Community ♦ user.
But how can this ...
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“Bounty expired” email falsely states question is mine [duplicate]
I took out a bounty on another user's question: Why is the following command inconsistent in my repository?
After the bounty period expired, I received a reminder email containing the following ...
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How to edit (or request an edit to) a typo in a bounty message? [duplicate]
I just started a bounty for this question but made a typo ("seem" instead if "seen").
How can I edit it?
If I can't, would it be an acceptable use of a flag to ask for it to be corrected?
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I have 250 rep but why is there no 250 option in the bounty drop down?
The following screenshot tells you my question much better.
Is it a bug or a by-design feature?
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What if I offer bounty but got no answers per week [duplicate]
I want to ask, what happens with reputation in case if someone offers some reputation as a bounty for a question, but during bounty time there is zero answers (or given answers are deleted by ...
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What happens when bounty user and OP are different? [duplicate]
I am talking about this question
Catch error if iframe src fails to load . Error :-"Refused to display 'http://www.google.co.in/' in a frame.."
In this question OP is user "SDG - ...
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How does bounty awarded by community to an answer with 1 upvote?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11763216/1341006 this answer has one upvote and has 25 bounty awarded by community. What I know is that, community awards bounty only if the answer has 2 or more vote ups, ...
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Over time will bounty values rise higher and higher meaning the cost of entry to be too great?
Over the short time I have been apart of Stack Overflow I have been aiming towards getting enough points to add bounties to questions I haven't gotten answers for yet.
What I have noticed during ...
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Email states that my bounty has ended, when it clearly has not
Something is wrong with when these emails are getting sent, I think. Perhaps a time zone, or DST bug?
I got an email at 3:02 stating that the bounty had ended (and got a notification in my SE ...
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Manually give rep to users, to thank them [duplicate]
I recently made this post to which I got this very detailed answer.
I'm very appreciative of the fact that the user took so much time to write up such a comprehensive answer and would like to give ...
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Multiple Accounts - opening bounty on question
I've searched through most of the multiple-accounts tag and as far as I can understand, the policy is that its okay to have multiple accounts provided they don't interact or sockpuppet.
Now I have ...
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Bounty comment gobbling text [duplicate]
The Problem
Writing a bounty comment will, after a text exceeds a certain length and passes down to the next line, reformat the frame and the first characters of the next lines thereafter will be ...
