Timeline for Let us vote to close posts with bounties on them [duplicate]
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| Jun 23, 2012 at 23:18 | comment | added | user154510 | Yeah, that's not how it works. Plenty of bad questions get through on all the bigger sites, it's too much to be on top of perfectly. Besides, borderline questions are exactly the ones you want to be closed through community consensus and not by a mod. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 21:33 | comment | added | Kevin | @MatthewRead my point is that you have two full days to catch bad questions before they can be "protected" by bounties. If they make it past that, they can't be that bad, and if they do still need to be deleted just flag for a mod. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 21:26 | comment | added | user154510 | @Kevin Let me know when you've invented a time machine. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 21:22 | comment | added | Kevin | You can't offer a bounty for 48 hours after the question is asked, so just close it in the first 24 hours. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:58 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @Matthew: To be honest, I rather dislike the entire concept of bounties, hence my opposition to anything that would weaken the constraints placed on them. But yes, totally different topic ;-) | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:55 | comment | added | user154510 | @Shog9 I don't think the bounty system works very well to begin with, but that's a different discussion :P. It was minor in terms of how I wrote my post -- again, my proposal is to allow close votes when there is a bounty. I, personally, am not very concerned with what happens to the bounty, and I don't want that to detract from my point about voting. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:48 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Might as well discuss this on Mark's proposal, since this variation has now been suggested there as well. But for the record, I don't think it's "minor" at all - remember, the original justification for even having a system for bounties was to encourage answers to questions where answering would require more than the usual amount of effort. Revoking that after someone's already put the effort in breaks that contract. This isn't a side-effect-free "undo" you're proposing here. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:41 | history | edited | user154510 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:41 | comment | added | user154510 | @Shog9 If that minor sidepoint is the reason you status-declined this, I'll remove it. I just figured that was the natural thing to do with the bounty -- if you were to post a bounty in good faith and it was revoked without the rep being restored, that would tend to hurt your trust in such a system. No? There are tradeoffs here, the details are up to you guys to decide on -- my issue is with bounties disabling close voting, I thought that was clear. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:22 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @Matthew: your specific suggestion (that closing would refund the bounty) does... The whole point of bounties is to sweeten the deal a bit for answerers, get more attention for a neglected question - if you answer a bountied question in good faith and the bounty is revoked, that would tend to hurt your trust in such a system. Of course, if you have reason to believe the question would be closed, that's a bit different - but in the example you gave, there was no visible indication that anything was amiss. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 18:14 | comment | added | user154510 | @Shog9 Fair enough. Still, I don't think that has any bearing on whether a bounty should disable close voting. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:55 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @Matthew: again, in over a month no one has criticized that question publicly on Gaming. I checked - it actually had four close votes at one time, but they expired... Again, without a single comment identifying the problem with the question. Not saying anyone should whine about it, but your frustration with the bounty could've potentially been avoided completely if the question had been fixed - or the author at least made aware - a month ago. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:45 | comment | added | user154510 | @Shog9 Gotcha. I would take that as evidence of the negative effect the bounty is having -- people often leave comments when they take action. Whining about futility is probably best left to chat and Meta where it is now :P, but I'm sure we could muster up some critical comments for the question if that's needed; I've added one. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:42 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @MatthewRead: that was more in response to GnomeSlice's comment about not refunding the whole amount because "he shoulda known better". BTW: still don't see a single comment or even a flag about what's wrong with that question on that question... | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:39 | comment | added | user154510 | @Shog9 In this case I'm not saying he did it to protect the question (though that has been done previously on Gaming). But what does it have to do with punishing the user? Closing a question isn't a punishment. The fact that the question was missed (in the absolute MASS of Diablo 3 questions) doesn't mean it should stay open or that the bounty should keep it open. You didn't provide any reason why a bounty should protect a question like this. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:14 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Yeah, yeah, everyone loves to talk about punishing the guy with the audacity to "protect" his question with a bounty. In this case, the question sat untouched for over a month, got bountied, got two answers in response to the bounty. Closing it now (particularly with a bounty refund) punishes the answerers more than the asker. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:02 | history | edited | Shog9Mod |
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| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:02 | comment | added | user154510 | @JeffMercado Lol, and I've upvoted at some point in the past apparently! Thanks.... | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 17:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 23, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | Jeff Mercado | You didn't search hard enough :P | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | Buns Glazing | +1, I hate this. When a bountied question gets closed, some of the rep could just go back to the user who applied the bounty. But not all of it, because he should know better. | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 16:45 | history | asked | user154510 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |