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13 questions linked to/from Please do not auto select answers on bounty questions
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Why am I forced to give away half the bounty on a question even if the answers are incorrect? [duplicate]
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 ...
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What happens if there are no answers to a bounty question?
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?
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Should SO introduce a Re-Bounty feature
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. ...
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Badge for Closing Question
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: ...
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To have CTRL-B to make text bold in comments
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, ...
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Is a bounty still auto-awarded if you downvote the answer?
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 ...
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Why accept answer without providing bounty? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Make the downsides of offering a bounty MUCH more explicit
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 ...
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There should always be a way to intervene and stop a bounty from being auto-awarded [duplicate]
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. ...
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Change behaviour when a bounty expires: add grace period, and bump expiration for active questions [duplicate]
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 ...
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Allow unaccepting an answer to a bounty question
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 ...
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Is there a delay after bounty expires before the top-voted answer is automatically selected?
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, ...
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To have an explicit auto-selection for bounties
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 ...