###Can we work a bountapalooza into this? Or something centered on offering bounties?

The holiday season is about giving, above all. On Worldbuilding, we've held something called a bountapalooza for the past three Winter Bashes (2016, 2017, 2018). Essentially, we have a featured meta post that encourages, and keeps track of, bounties being set during Winter Bash. Usually, we try to get people to set bounties on questions asked by other people, as well as posts that haven't gotten much attention, but that's a side note.

So . . . can we do something network-wide during Winter Bash that would encourage the same thing - being generous enough to sacrifice some of those hard-earned imaginary Internet points for the sake of knowledge and helping others? It could be a hat; it could be a leaderboard; it could be something entirely different. Just a way to encourage a very Stack Exchange-y way of giving back to others.

. . . Looks like I actually suggested this two years ago. My memory is clearly fading. But I think this incarnation of the idea is broader; as with animuson, I'd like to see some non-hat ideas. I think we could encourage bounties in more ways than just a hat, like . . .

• A network-wide leaderboard for who's set the most bounties (or maybe given up the most rep) on other users' questions.
• A partial (full?) refund for whoever spent the most.
• Network-wide advertisements for bounties, a la the HNQ (thanks, Monica!).
• Longer bounty periods.
• Just fun, unofficial per-site bountapaloozas, which I guess we can implement on our own.

Can we work a bountapalooza into this? Or something centered on offering bounties?

The holiday season is about giving, above all. On Worldbuilding, we've held something called a bountapalooza for the past three Winter Bashes (2016, 2017, 2018). Essentially, we have a featured meta post that encourages, and keeps track of, bounties being set during Winter Bash. Usually, we try to get people to set bounties on questions asked by other people, as well as posts that haven't gotten much attention, but that's a side note.

So . . . can we do something network-wide during Winter Bash that would encourage the same thing - being generous enough to sacrifice some of those hard-earned imaginary Internet points for the sake of knowledge and helping others? It could be a hat; it could be a leaderboard; it could be something entirely different. Just a way to encourage a very Stack Exchange-y way of giving back to others.

. . . Looks like I actually suggested this two years ago. My memory is clearly fading. But I think this incarnation of the idea is broader; as with animuson, I'd like to see some non-hat ideas. I think we could encourage bounties in more ways than just a hat, like . . .

• A network-wide leaderboard for who's set the most bounties (or maybe given up the most rep) on other users' questions.
• A partial (full?) refund for whoever spent the most.
• Network-wide advertisements for bounties, a la the HNQ (thanks, Monica!).
• Longer bounty periods.
• Just fun, unofficial per-site bountapaloozas, which I guess we can implement on our own.

###Can we work a bountapalooza into this? Or something centered on offering bounties?

The holiday season is about giving, above all. On Worldbuilding, we've held something called a bountapalooza for the past three Winter Bashes (2016, 2017, 2018). Essentially, we have a featured meta post that encourages, and keeps track of, bounties being set during Winter Bash. Usually, we try to get people to set bounties on questions asked by other people, as well as posts that haven't gotten much attention, but that's a side note.

So . . . can we do something network-wide during Winter Bash that would encourage the same thing - being generous enough to sacrifice some of those hard-earned imaginary Internet points for the sake of knowledge and helping others? It could be a hat; it could be a leaderboard; it could be something entirely different. Just a way to encourage a very Stack Exchange-y way of giving back to others.

###Can we work a bountapalooza into this? Or something centered on offering bounties?

The holiday season is about giving, above all. On Worldbuilding, we've held something called a bountapalooza for the past three Winter Bashes (2016, 2017, 2018). Essentially, we have a featured meta post that encourages, and keeps track of, bounties being set during Winter Bash. Usually, we try to get people to set bounties on questions asked by other people, as well as posts that haven't gotten much attention, but that's a side note.

So . . . can we do something network-wide during Winter Bash that would encourage the same thing - being generous enough to sacrifice some of those hard-earned imaginary Internet points for the sake of knowledge and helping others? It could be a hat; it could be a leaderboard; it could be something entirely different. Just a way to encourage a very Stack Exchange-y way of giving back to others.

. . . Looks like I actually suggested this two years ago. My memory is clearly fading. But I think this incarnation of the idea is broader; as with animuson, I'd like to see some non-hat ideas. I think we could encourage bounties in more ways than just a hat, like . . .

• A network-wide leaderboard for who's set the most bounties (or maybe given up the most rep) on other users' questions.
• A partial (full?) refund for whoever spent the most.
• Network-wide advertisements for bounties, a la the HNQ (thanks, Monica!).
• Longer bounty periods.
• Just fun, unofficial per-site bountapaloozas, which I guess we can implement on our own.