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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I did not receive my bounty even when I reached the requirements [duplicate]
On this question: Dart to WASM compilation (timeline), I did everything according to the guidelines and still did not get my bounty.
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Is it allowed to start a bounty for your unanswered question using an alt account?
Let's say a user has 2 accounts. The main account has asked a question which is unanswered. Now, is it allowed for the user to start a bounty on that question using the 2nd account given the following ...
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Active bounty didn't prevent automatic deletion [duplicate]
According to Prevent questions with bounty from being auto-deleted an active bounty should prevent automatic deletion:
We agree, questions that contain an active bounty should not be eligible for ...
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No space between "bounty" and the username in bounty notices [duplicate]
This might be the smallest bug, however, it is irritating to see the username is connected to "bounty" with a period. There have been times when I think that could be a particular syntax on ...
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Space is needed in generated bounty notice [duplicate]
In the bounty notice there isn't any space between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next. E.g.,
Link to the list of MSE bounties for check by self.
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Missing space in bounty notice on a post
I noticed there is a space missing in the bounty message on a post:
Link to example post: Do you pay a gold tax when beating the final boss? The bounty has since ended on the example post, but any of ...
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Bounty expiring soon and completed simultaneously according to the inbox notification?
Is it normal according to common logic that "expiring soon" bounty "is completed"?
bounty expiring soon
Your bounty on question "Post notice should indicate a self-deletion ...
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Where can I look at English localization strings on Stack Exchange?
This question's title may confuse you, but I'm sure that there are English-to-English translations on each Stack Exchange site that uses the English language as a main in the user interface.
For ...
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How can I find users with a specific number of earned/offered bounties?
How can I find users with a specific number of earned or/and offered bounties?
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No tooltip or any other info why the bounty is not awardable for immature bounty on iPad
Before the bounty gets mature (allowed to award) on desktop browser or even on Android I can see the tooltip:
Android 13 Chrome (touch screen) after tapping on the icon:
But I can't see any tooltip ...
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How can I forcibly remove a question with no answers from the Bountied list?
If a question with bounty has an answer, you can award the bounty to that answer and that will remove the question from the Bountied list.
Is it possible to remove the question (before the bounty is ...
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What's the order of posts in bounty offered tab?
The order of posts in my offered bounties look like this:
I don't get it, what's the sorting criteria used here?
Post position
Offered time
first
2023-01-20 10:04:25Z
middle
2021-03-15 13:55:51Z
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Fix HTML encoding in message on attempt to award a bounty for deleted answer
Voting on deleted post leads to appearing of the following popup message:
But on pressing on bounty icon I got almost same message, but with a weird HTML encoding for ':
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Add a custom message of a bounty as a comment part to the post timeline
A bounty can have a custom message specified on the bounty start
And placed as a notice when the bounty is in the active phase:
That message will not be visible anywhere after the end of a bounty ...
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Add bounty value as a comment in timeline [duplicate]
Currently, there is no information about bounties worth values in timeline, e.g.:
It would be nice to add a value of bounty as comment part in timeline, i.e.
bounty worth N reputation
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Can the Community bot receive bounties?
Is it possible for the Community user to answer a question - like here - and receive a bounty if a bounty is placed on the question?
At this point in time, Community's answer is the highest-upvoted, ...
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How to receive a bounty from "Community"? [duplicate]
I was checking some bounties to see and realized that one of my answers was present on a newly bountied question.
This one to be specific: 500 window is not defined nuxt3 and composition api
I forgot ...
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"bounty start" with reputation entry is removed from the bounty post's timeline
When there is a bounty added for a question, previously there are three entries are added to the post's timeline, such as :
"bounty started"
"notice added" with a comment provided ...
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Bounty badges drained of colour
Something I noticed just now (look inside the circle):
The badge with the bounty amount in a bounty notice was previously white text on a blue background; now it has the same colours as the notice ...
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Can Place a Bounty on a Locked Q/A, but Can't Award It [duplicate]
A few days ago, I revisited the infamous HTML Zalgo question. Seeing the "start a bounty" link, I clicked it. I ended up being able to place one on the question despite the entire Q/A post ...
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Is "Authoritative reference needed" bounty a good way to bring staff's attention to a post? [duplicate]
I know that there is this post which talks about how to escalate posts to staff using status-review. But I would like to primarily discuss about "Authoritative reference needed" in this ...
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Can we lower the two-day minimum wait for placing a bounty to one day for smaller Stack Exchange sites?
After posting a question, can we lower the two-day minimum wait for placing a bounty to, for example, one day, for smaller, more inactive Stack Exchange sites?
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A possibly erroneous bounty auto-award message? I thought I already awarded it, but auto-award notification says it gave the full amount
Third time's a charm! Starting at +100 for my first bounty on Reference request (explaining) how optical correlators combine light from multiple telescopes to produce ultra-high resolution ...
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Implementing uber-votes on questions
This question is essentially a variation of Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions in the spirit of GentlePurpleRain's comment here.
I reproduce the linked question and comment below:
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Don't systematically double the minimum amount to offer for a bounty
"if you offer multiple bounties on the same question, the minimum
spend doubles with each subsequent bounty (50 reputation on the first
bounty, 100 reputation on the second, 200 on the third, and ...
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Having the Community user offering bounties instead of bumping
I dislike when the Community user bumps questions and flags them modified when no (valuable) modification was actually made.
It is no longer a problem per se since Unix & Linux SE moderators ...
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Reputation bounties by upvotes [duplicate]
I don't think that the current implementation of reputation bounties is good. There is a good chance that after assigning a bounty to a question one doesn't receives any useful information at all and ...
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When a user offers a bounty on their own question, their name isn't highlighted [duplicate]
All the bounty events (bounty started, notice added, bounty ended, notice removed) are missing the blue highlight (exact color varies by theme) for the OP's name in the timeline. Example:
(More ...
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How to choose the best answer for bounties [duplicate]
I am in a problem. I made a bounty and I got 2 good answers, but they are "different". I know the bounty system is to award the effort and help others to find the best answer, and that is ...
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Bounties on questions without answers shouldn't start counting down until the first answer is posted, but still only stay featured for seven days [duplicate]
I think I understand How does the bounty system work?
when no answers get posted:
What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?
If, after the end of the bounty period, a question has no ...
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Outdated screenshot of set bounty dialogue in Help Center
The screenshot of the set bounty dialogue in the set bounties privilege page of the Help Center is outdated. The order of the buttons has been reversed:
Now the Next button precedes the Cancel link ...
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Can I award a bounty to a comment owner?
I've seen the following in the Article about bounties under "How is a bounty awarded?":
The bounty period lasts 7 days. Bounties must have a minimum duration of at least 1 day. After the ...
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Could a different wording be given to the email sent when a bounty has not attracted answers or comments?
I received an email saying:
bounty expiring soon Mar 28 at 11:03
Your bounty on question "How can I set up networking under Basilisk II / MacOS 8.7?" is completed. You must award it to an ...
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Grant site permission based on the total accumulated, rather than current, reputation [duplicate]
I've been using Stack Exchange sites for about seven years now, and in that time I've probably accumulated a few thousand reputation points — primarily on Stack Overflow. Recently I was posting a new ...
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Make it clear in the bounty dialog that it's not possible to reward your own answer
When a user sets a bounty on a question, the system doesn't allow them to reward their own answer:
Can I award a bounty to my own answer?
No. This used to be possible, but it has been disabled. The +...
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Bounties with no deadline [duplicate]
Today I discovered that a number of Stack Exchange sites maintain a list of bounties with no deadline. As this is unsupported by Stack Exchange, this is done outside the normal bounty system in an ...
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Pluralization issue: "View all 1 bounties"
In the user "Activity" page, in the "Summary" tab, there is a pluralization issue in the section for bounties. If only one bounty has been earned, then clicking on the "Earned&...
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What should I do if I make a typo in my bounty text? [duplicate]
I know I can't edit it myself (there is a feature request to enable this).
I just raised a custom moderator flag with an explanation and the replacement bounty text, but I don't want to waste their ...
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Missing space between bounty amount and remaining duration in user bounties page
This was previously reported as an answer to the announcement New responsive Activity page. However, the answer was posted more than two months after the announcement. The team only monitors ...
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Cannot award bounty [duplicate]
In this question, I had started a bounty to draw more attention.
When I got an extensive answer by user Eddie Kelley, I awarded the bounty to that answer. Immediately after this, I found that there is ...
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Remind me why I'm bountying this question?
When I'm writing the custom reason for a bounty, especially because of my poor working memory, I'd really appreciate to be reminded of the reason and phrasing of the bounty reason.
There choice I make ...
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Filter option for Unanswered [duplicate]
When you are looking at recent questions, your filter options are bountied, hot, week, and month (plus some site-specific ones).
It seems to me the only reason someone would be browsing questions is ...
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Is the full bounty awarded if an answer is accepted after half the bounty is awarded?
If half the bounty is awarded to the top voted answer, and that answer is accepted later, will the other half of the bounty be awarded?
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Under what conditions are notifications about expiring of bounties sent?
As far as I can tell, a user who offered a bounty receives several notifications of this type.
Your bounty on question "... expires in three days.
Your bounty on question "... expires in ...
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Is the minimum bounty now double your previous bounty? [duplicate]
I wanted to add an extra bounty to a question I had already bountied (at 100 rep) to make its reward comparable to a very similar question I had also bountied. I wanted to add another 150, but the ...
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Is there a policy for extending bounty periods in cases where there is SE network outage or maintenance? [duplicate]
If I start a bounty, I expect that bounty to last 7 days unless I award the bounty before the time of expiry. What happens if there is Stack Exchange Network maintenance or outage during that time? Is ...
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What are reasons why a bountied question does not show up (not filterered by tags)
I have https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=bounties opened in a separate browser, so it should not be affected by tag-filtering.
This question does not show up. X11 MIT-SHM performance of XShmPutImage
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The "reward an existing answer" bounty option should not say "one or more" since you cannot award the bounty to more than one answer
Right now, the "reward an existing bounty" option bears the description:
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
The "or more" seems out of ...
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Getting "Question eligible for bounty since ..." but where is the location of the “start a bounty” button? [duplicate]
I'm getting "Question eligible for bounty since ..." on the following Stack Overflow question, but where is the location of the “start a bounty” button?
How to open a program by bash script ...
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