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Don't set minimum bounty to 100 when own answer is community wiki

If you have answered your own question, and want to start a bounty on it, you must start at 100 rep instead of the default 50, because: To avoid overly promotional bounties, if you are offering a ...
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Can I post a question to draw attention and place/award bounties for a community wiki post?

I'd like to create some bounties for this community wiki post, and award them the user(s) that contributes the most useful content. But because it's a community wiki for a proposed Meta-FAQ section, ...
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Bounties on question with CW answer do not reward people for improving existing answer

The use case for making an answer Community Wiki is to have a single large answer that everyone can maintain. This works, but it can conflict with the use case for bounties. In particular, if the ...
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Question bumped into Community Wiki by several bounties?

Look at the revision history of this here question — what concerns me is the entry that says: Post Made Community Wiki by being edited by more than 5 different editors If you look at the ...
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Can I reward contributions to a community wiki?

I am basically looking for some non-existent documentation on using RabbitVCS for Git. The question isn't eligible for a bounty yet. I think the most sensible approach would be a single community wiki ...
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Awarding a bounty to an editor

Bounties are always awarded to the original author of an answer. Occasionally, it would be nice to be able to award a bounty to someone who contributed an important part of the puzzle. An example I ...
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How to bounty an answer when the questions and answers in Community Wiki mode? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does the bounty system work? As is well known, in Community Wiki posts, all users will not earn any reputation. But if I start a bounty on a Community Wiki question (its ...
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Reputation from bounties not counted on community wiki posts in most recent rep recalc

According to Sam Saffron (aka waffles ♦), a recent fix by Nick Craver to how votes are counted on Community Wiki posts was deployed, and many users had their reputation automatically recalculated to ...
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Can a community wiki answer win the bounty?

In a cruel twist, the person with the leading answer for my bountied question has turned his post into a community wiki answer by editing it a lot. Is he still going to win the reputation for the ...
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Can I put a bounty on a CW question? [duplicate]

Can I put a bounty on a community wiki question? While I haven't found any information eliminating this possibility, I have also not found a confirmation answer. Given the special nature of CW ...
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