Timeline for Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions
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| Apr 10, 2021 at 8:47 | comment | added | Sybille Peters | I absolutely agree with "hence many "hot", popular, and highly-voted questions are de facto not too great" | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 5:50 | comment | added | eggyal | One solution to gaming the system might be to “charge” for question “bounties” (either fixed amount or % of award); another, possibly complimentary, idea might be to restrict such “bounties” to questions that meet certain criteria eg score of at least +10 and with at least three answers. | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | 2. Gaming the rep system can easily be done using plain answer bounties (and many have done so in the past). The only way they get caught are either by system filters or by users who happen to notice them. | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 15:51 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | 1. Jump-starting a new user often happens because of a single question/answer even if they don't get a bounty. For example, atleast 25% of the highest up-voted questions on any site are usually by new users. So I don't see how this will encourage it any further. Maybe there could be a restriction that you must have a certain amount of rep before being eligible to receive a question bounty. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 10:01 | history | edited | Ziv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2012 at 9:37 | history | answered | Ziv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |