Timeline for It's time to remove the bounty delay
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 8:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 14:03 | comment | added | BenPen | I think it's more of a question of the front page not being useful for very busy places like SO. @JonEricson brings up a very good point about tag pages, and I think there may be good reason for that. The topic area covered by SO is so broad that it takes a titan of a software engineer to know the majority of topics covered to even a level of competence. Maybe if you offered users the ability to exclude a list of common tags used recently, it might be a way to tame the fire hose some by excluding areas outside a members interests/expertise. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 20:47 | comment | added | Shog9 | Code change is trivial; your second paragraph is the take-away here: we shouldn't need bounties on the vast majority of questions. There are massive downsides to the bounty system, and while they're occasionally warranted, a system where questions need to be bountied quickly is a system that is fundamentally broken in ways bounties cannot fix. Jeff declined a similar request 6 years ago and I another 4 years ago for more or less the same reason. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 20:27 | comment | added | Jon Ericson Staff | @hichris123: Let's suppose this is a five minute change. (I don't know, of course. Nobody has made the attempt.) How much longer will it take to test? How do we know the change will achieve its goal? For that matter, what is the goal here? In other words, if the setting had been easy to change, I'd probably consider an experiment. But given I can't do that without taking developer time from other projects, I'm not disposed to try. Them's the breaks, I'm afraid. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 19:41 | history | answered | Jon EricsonStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |