Timeline for Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Oct 22, 2017 at 13:35 | comment | added | E.P. | If a nice question is a bit old and has mostly settled with reasonable and upvoted answers, there is an uphill climb in visibility that acts as a strong disincentive to write new answers even if you think you can write something better than the existing answers. (One example: I think this is better than the two previous answers, but it's unlikely to ever match them in score.) Adding one week of free advertisement to the question could substantially upset that balance and I'd argue that that's often enough encouragement for new answers to come in. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Nov 26, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | -1 Totally agree with both @Ziv and @ TravisJ | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Aug 11, 2012 at 21:15 | comment | added | Travis J | "They don't provide any factual information that would help others in the future" - I find this to be inaccurate, as many times in excellent questions the information in the question is 95% correct and the answer has the other 5%. The correct 95% of the content for the situation provided by the person posing the question in my opinion is of great value and will help others in the future. | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 1:42 | vote | accept | eggyal | ||
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| Jul 2, 2012 at 1:41 | history | bounty ended | eggyal | ||
| Jun 26, 2012 at 9:56 | comment | added | Ziv | It doesn't encourage behavior directly, but it allows a reward for examplary behavior. It provides acknowledgement and attention to exemplary questions, which is currently possible only via question upvotes - a system which is far from thorough. We always want to encourage writing great questions, but "great" is a quality which is impossible to formalize. Votes give us popular opinion; bounties could give us an additional avenue less dependant on preexisting popularity. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 8:02 | comment | added | eggyal | +1 Most convincing answer yet. I will hang on to the bounty for a bit longer to see if any other arguments are unearthed, but otherwise it's yours! :) | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 7:12 | history | answered | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |