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I found a pretty cool question which justified a bounty. I didn't receive a correct answer and the bounty is about to expire. Instead of extending the bounty I MUST pick an answer or half a bounty ...

If you ask a question, and get no answers, so you then add a bounty, and still get no answers, what happens? Do you lose your points to the ether? Does the bounty get canceled?

I recently created a bounty for a question on Stack Overflow The bounty deadline came and went without a suitable answer (IMO). Because I wasn't happy with any of the answers I didn't accept any. ...

I think we should have a badge ( or a set of badges) for the users who close a sufficient number of questions. Closing question is a form of community service and therefore deserves rewards. Note: ...

I would like to have similar editing possibilities with keyboard shortcuts in comments as in writing questions. I find myself typing Ctrl-B at the moment too often in the comment section. Please, ...

I asked a question. I put up a bounty after a period with no answers, and there was only one answer. Nobody else answered, and one person voted this answer up (only one, no downvotes). I voted that ...

From the help center: You can accept an answer without awarding a bounty to it. You can award a bounty on an answer without accepting it. The question is why? Isn’t the bounty system used ...

Apparently there is a whole host of reasons why you don't actually ever want to offer a bounty: You get -50 reputation even if you don't get a proper answer. You can't accept an answer after the ...

Auto-selecting answer for rewards is really annoying This question had no good answers so I set a bounty on it. It received one new answer that was completely irrelevant, and that was auto-selected. ...

Possible Duplicate: A grace period of one day to award the bounty after expiration (without remaining featured, of course) When the bounty period expires, half the bounty points are automatically ...

Currently as it stands, once you open a bounty for a question, and once you've accepted an answer for that, you can never ever unaccept it anymore. And if a better answer appears or if you realize ...

I provided an answer to this bounty question, which became the top-voted answer with 13 upvotes and 2 downvotes. My answer was posted after the bounty was posted. The OP never accepted an answer, ...

This post is based on this thread. I am not for nor against of auto-accepting bounties. Both sides have their advantages and weaknesses. I see that the main weakness in the bounty system is its ...