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23 questions linked to/from I just awarded myself a bounty
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Explicit "do not award bounty" button
Shouldn't there be a way to prevent automatic awarding of a bounty? For example, if someone provides an answer that sounds good but is totally wrong, it may happen that it gets a score of +2, but ...
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Create a tag homepage/FAQ
Create or allow for a community-wiki editable home page per tag. One where we could place essentially the tag-specific FAQ and other tag-specific links.
Imported from uservoice
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Do not implicitly award bounty to an answer that has been downvoted by the investor
Sometimes you start a bounty and, since the problem is difficult and people try to reach the bounty, there is higher probability than usual that you get very low quality answers. Sometimes these ...
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Can I award a bounty to myself if I provide the best answer? [duplicate]
I finally found the solution to a problem that was killing me. Before I found it, I asked an SO question about it, and had even started a bounty on the question. Can I now post a self-answer and, if ...
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Add bounty events to revision history
Could timestamps of bounty activity be added to a question's revision history? Or something that would show the bounty events for a question anyway? Obviously the revision entries would need to be ...
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Can I not give a bounty to myself?
I placed a bounty on an old question that I've previously posted an answer to. I'm able to award the bounty to any of the other answers (which were also posted before the bounty was added), but not to ...
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Shouldn't the OP be required to decide on the bounty or face some consequences?
I provided an answer to this question that had an open bounty for 100 points at the time. I responded a couple days before the bounty was set to expire. I put in a fair amount of work into ...
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How to deal with own question which should be deleted with an open bounty?
I have a question on stack overflow:
Oracle DB, Glassfish, Hibernate and character encoding
After setting a bounty and further testing I discovered that I was indeed getting the right data from the ...
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I want to set a default winner for a bounty
I don't want that default to be visible to anybody but me. I just want to set who gets the bounty when it expires if I don't change my mind. Currently the system picks a winner if you don't pick one ...
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What about the people who legitimately deserve to claim their own bounties?
The bounty system incentivizes people to provide good answers to difficult questions. But if the person offering a bounty later provides the best answer, SO does not allow him to claim the bounty—in ...
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Am I using bounties wrong, or misunderstanding them? [duplicate]
My understanding of the bounty system is that it is intended to help attract attention to questions that need more than they're getting, and to reward people who provide answers which are otherwise ...
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A bounty being offered by another person on a question
I have searched around, but cannot find the answer to this particular question.
If another person sets a bounty on a question. If the OP answers the question, can the bounty be awarded to the OP's ...
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Why do I lose the bounty awarded to my own answer? [closed]
I set a bounty (50 pts) on someone else's question, as I found it quite interesting but there had only been one half-answer. I posted an answer, but felt someone else may have been able to put in more ...
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Bounty sniping? Answering only after the 7 day period passes
I find it interesting (not in an encouraging way) that answers start to show up only after the 7 day period expires. The bounty system works by awarding the bounty points to the oldest answer or the ...
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