Questions tagged [bounties]
A bounty is a way to get additional attention for a question by offering some of your own reputation for great answers.
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Bounty removed days ago, but it still shows on the homepage
On SFF, I see a bountied question:
But in reality, the bounty was removed by a moderator 2 days ago. Why does it still show on the homepage and under "Bountied"?
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Allow bounties to be posted with the API
Currently, as far as I can tell, it is not possible to post a bounty on an answer through the SE API; indeed, that seems to be just about the only thing the API doesn't let apps do to questions. Is it ...
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How to get bounty back if a question is closed?
I started a bounty over on Stack Overflow that regarded Docker Compose and networking, and then the question got closed. Someone with the right authority regarded it was a networking question and not ...
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Countdown indicator on bountied questions [duplicate]
I don't know if this has been discussed before, I didn't find anything in the search engine.
I usually check the bountied in the stacks I participate in, often to check the pending time. I don't know ...
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What will happen if a user who initially have the bounty privilege but lost it during the duration of the bounty? [duplicate]
There's nothing in particular about this, just that I'm curious. Let's suppose a scenario: A user gains reputation, and got the "offer a bounty" privilege (awarded upon reaching 75 rep ...
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Anonymity of Bounties?
Is there any option, and if not then why, where the person raising a bounty can remain anonymous? That is the name of the person will not be shown if they choose to do so, even if the bounty is on ...
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Why Manually Award Bounties?
What reason does a Stack Exchange user have for manually awarding a bounty? It seems to me that, since only half of the bounty will be awarded if no bounty is manually awarded, users are, in fact, ...
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Questions with active bounties still aren't eligible to appear in the close vote queue, and pending reviews are still invalidated upon bounty starting
Today, the system was changed to allow users to vote to close or reopen questions with active bounties. However, it looks like a detail was missed when making this change.
For a long time, questions ...
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Possible to vote to close questions with active bounties
Over on RPG, I was able to close vote this question after it had a bounty posted:
As you can see, it currently has two close votes. And I did some testing right here on meta (shout out to Journeyman ...
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I wanted to give a bounty to an answer, but it was deleted by CommunityBot, and the author is temporarily suspended. What should I do?
I wanted to give a bounty to an answer to my question. But the answer was unexpectedly deleted by CommunityBot. Its author is temporarily suspended.
What should I do?
The answer looks excellent and ...
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Is it allowed to give all of one's reputation points away via bounty? [duplicate]
If a person wants to leave, would they be able to give away loads or all of their points through bounties (reward existing answer mainly), or would that be flagged as some sort of offense and shut ...
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How can I get bounty information from the API?
I want to get information about all bounties that were active within last 3-4 days. This should include started, awarded and expired bounties. How do I do this?
Here are my thoughts.
If a bounty is ...
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Why is there no way to upgrade a half-bounty to a full bounty after 7 days? Maybe some way should be implemented?
I don't understand why this gets downvoted for merely disliking the suggestion. The downvote button says: "The question does not show any research effort, it is unclear or not useful." It ...
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How can I assign a bounty and the "accepted answer" checkmark to more than two equally good answers?
I posted a question and added a 100 point bounty.
I got (so far) three equally great answers. Each of the answers approached the problem from a different angle. All three answers are independent. All ...
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Offer a bounty for a new canonical Q/A pair
For personal reasons I am no longer interested in contributing new questions and answers to Stack Overflow; but I think this idea would have much broader applicability than my specific use case.
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