Questions tagged [bounty]
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 I / How can I move a bountied question to math overflow?
I posted this question a week ago and have since bountied it. I still haven't figured out the answer to the problem. I'm starting to think that it might be a research level question and would be more ...
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Is it okay to ask a question on the interpretation of a result or for an alternate solution?
I posted a problem a while back and recently put a bounty on it:
Locus of centroid, given the slopes of the sides
I tried to be as clear as I could about what I was asking (basically just an intuitive ...
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chatGPT and Delete - Have others noticed this trend?
I had a +200 bounty question set to expire in 2 hours when I got an answer to it. I suspected the answer of being written by ChatGPT based on the format, and material of the answer. The answer did not ...
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When is it appropriate to bounty a "contested question"?
In recent times, I bountied a question when it was reopened prior to a previous closing. Unfortunately, the bounty started on a time with four close votes. The bounty was apparently manually removed ...
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Make bounty messages editable [duplicate]
Would it please be possible to add the ability to edit a bounty message?
I recently posted a bounty, but forgot to include some details by mistake and made some formatting errors, as I was unable to ...
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bad break in bounty banner
The bounty banner looks bad. I’d be surprised if it’s always looked like this and I never noticed, so I suspect something was broken. Here’s a screenshot:
There are two related problems with this. (I ...
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Can't place a second bounty after grace period.
I posted a question on Christmas and placed a bounty on it. I'm planning to re-bounty the question for 100 points today, but the system isn't letting me do that. Also, it is saying "award this ...
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Bounty Message despite Accepted Answer
Why am I getting this message? (Note in this case I'm getting it after accepting an answer.)
In this case, I had this message for long as I had neither accepted nor received any answer. But then, ...
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Etiquette of bounty on PSQs.
This question was asked by an account that has currently been suspended temporarily. I found this question, liked it too much, and put a bounty on it (At that time the account was not suspended I ...
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Question about bounties and serial votes. [closed]
Can I see the question that I put a bounty on (I am not the OP of that question) in the “bountied questions” list? I can’t seem to be able to see it and am freaking out, thinking it’s not getting ...
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How do I start a bounty?
I would like to start a bounty for the question:
How to calculate the integral of a product of a spherical Hankel function with associated Legendre polynomials
Below the questions and existing ...
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Why can't I edit the tags of my post? Why do people not seem to be interested in it?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Trying to prove a proposition about the nth order derivative of a polynomial by induction - is this correct?
I tried to add the proof-...
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Number of bounties offered by a user
Is it possible to see how many bounties offered a specific user and how many of these bounties were awarded?
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List of earned bounties shows the state of question, not the answer.
In the profile page, when you check the list of earned bounties, as usual it shows the titles of the questions (like in 'answers' tab). Nevertheless, it shows the score of the questions, not the ...
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I made the best answer to my own question after posting a bounty on it. Now I'm losing $50$ points when I haven't done anything wrong. A bit unfair?
The question I'm talking about: For any unbounded set of real numbers, is there a subset which almost coincides with a uniformly spread out set of points an infinite amount of times?
I answered it ...
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