Questions tagged [bounties]
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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Why Manually Award Bounties?
What reason does a Stack Exchange user have for manually awarding a bounty? It seems to me that, since only half of the bounty will be awarded if no bounty is manually awarded, users are, in fact, ...
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Questions with active bounties still aren't eligible to appear in the close vote queue, and pending reviews are still invalidated upon bounty starting
Today, the system was changed to allow users to vote to close or reopen questions with active bounties. However, it looks like a detail was missed when making this change.
For a long time, questions ...
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Possible to vote to close questions with active bounties
Over on RPG, I was able to close vote this question after it had a bounty posted:
As you can see, it currently has two close votes. And I did some testing right here on meta (shout out to Journeyman ...
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I wanted to give a bounty to an answer, but it was deleted by CommunityBot, and the author is temporarily suspended. What should I do?
I wanted to give a bounty to an answer to my question. But the answer was unexpectedly deleted by CommunityBot. Its author is temporarily suspended.
What should I do?
The answer looks excellent and ...
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Is it allowed to give all of one's reputation points away via bounty? [duplicate]
If a person wants to leave, would they be able to give away loads or all of their points through bounties (reward existing answer mainly), or would that be flagged as some sort of offense and shut ...
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How can I get bounty information from the API?
I want to get information about all bounties that were active within last 3-4 days. This should include started, awarded and expired bounties. How do I do this?
Here are my thoughts.
If a bounty is ...
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Why is there no way to upgrade a half-bounty to a full bounty after 7 days? Maybe some way should be implemented?
I don't understand why this gets downvoted for merely disliking the suggestion. The downvote button says: "The question does not show any research effort, it is unclear or not useful." It ...
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How can I assign a bounty and the "accepted answer" checkmark to more than two equally good answers?
I posted a question and added a 100 point bounty.
I got (so far) three equally great answers. Each of the answers approached the problem from a different angle. All three answers are independent. All ...
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Offer a bounty for a new canonical Q/A pair
For personal reasons I am no longer interested in contributing new questions and answers to Stack Overflow; but I think this idea would have much broader applicability than my specific use case.
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Deleted posts showing in the Earned Bounties list
Normally, one can only search their own deleted posts or they need a direct link to the deleted post. However, I've stumbled on a case where in the list of earned bounties on someone else's profile ...
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Are sock puppet bounties retracted?
A user used sock puppets to grant self bounties. The user's self-upvotes were retracted, and so were bounty rep gains, but the bounties remain visible on answers, and continue to inflate their worth.
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Do we receive notifications about new answers posted for a question on which I started bounty? [duplicate]
I started a bounty on a question. After I started the bounty, some answers were posted and I received notifications about these answers.
P.S. I didn't follow the bounty question.
Is receiving ...
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Bounties and Low Quality Posts Queue
While reviewing a question in the low quality posts queue I ran into an issue with the question having a bounty which prevented me from taking action on the post. I had intended to vote to close the ...
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How can I effectively assist a novice programmer with a bounty question?
Asking on Meta Stack Exchange has to do with effectively assisting a user who has posted a bounty on a question.
Preface
I'm currently interacting with a user who seems to have copied a project from ...
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Why don’t we see a preview of the bounty message?
I'm wondering why we don't see a preview of the bounty message.
In one of my questions, if the bounty message was in the main post; the second link; i.e., the following would show only the following,...
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