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To remain consistent with the
Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?
for questions which have answers but none was accepted,
Have you considered starting a bounty for this question?
should be displayed for 0-answers questions as well.
As I mentioned here
Assuming that you have already done the following:
- Re-evaluated the question to see if it could be made clearer.
- Re-evaluated the question to see if it could be made shorter.
Engaged with any responses or comments and edited to incorporate feedback.N/A this time.- Continued working on the problem on your own and updated the question with new information.
- Considered a bounty.
Bounties are not meant to replace steps 1-4. In fact, if you haven't go through those earlier steps, then adding a bounty will likely not help at all. Adding a bounty on unanswerable questions will generate bad answers.
I think a better message would be.
Have you considered any of the suggestions in the Style Guidelines for Questions?
