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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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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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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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Deleted posts showing in the Earned Bounties list
Normally, one can only search their own deleted posts or they need a direct link to the deleted post. However, I've stumbled on a case where in the list of earned bounties on someone else's profile ...
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Are sock puppet bounties retracted?
A user used sock puppets to grant self bounties. The user's self-upvotes were retracted, and so were bounty rep gains, but the bounties remain visible on answers, and continue to inflate their worth.
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Do we receive notifications about new answers posted for a question on which I started bounty? [duplicate]
I started a bounty on a question. After I started the bounty, some answers were posted and I received notifications about these answers.
P.S. I didn't follow the bounty question.
Is receiving ...
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Why don’t we see a preview of the bounty message?
I'm wondering why we don't see a preview of the bounty message.
In one of my questions, if the bounty message was in the main post; the second link; i.e., the following would show only the following,...
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Get rid of the redundant/misleading "complete bounties list" link on Bounties tab
On the bottom of Bounties tab we have the link to complete list of bounties:
Looking for more questions with bounties? Browse the complete list.
Do we actually need it when ALL bounties are already ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why did my bullets fail to display as intended in my bounty message even they display properly temporarily sandboxed in an answer post? [duplicate]
Editing bounty messages, is it finally time for a little "Love"? (anti-Doh! feature request) discusses the possibility of having perhaps five minutes to edit bounty messages because we can ...
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When are bounties considered as active?
In my user's profile, it says that I have three active bounties. (Here is a snapshot from Wayback Machine).
However, for two of those bounties, the grace period is over - so I wouldn't expect them to ...
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Why can't I add a bounty on my 48 hour old question? [duplicate]
I am trying to add a bounty on my 48+ hour old question on Stack Overflow, but I don't have an Add Bounty button anywhere (I checked the FAQ). The question meets the age limit, I have more than 50 ...
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Can I answer my own question without accepting it?
I recently posed a question on stack exchange biology about how viruses persist outside the body, and HPV in particular.
The question received some upvotes initially but no answers. After putting a ...
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What should I do when my question is already asked and has a bad answer that is definitive, or even bounty-rewarded? [duplicate]
I have seen many cases where my possible question would automatically stand as a duplicate of an older one that seems to have answers, but these are bad, old, or just "no" answers providing ...
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What's the feed RSS URL for bountied questions coupled with a specific tag?
The feed RSS URL for a tag in stackoverflow is this
https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=TAGNAME
Is there a way to have only the bountied question for that tag?
Thank you
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Are diamond moderators exempted from the minimum duration of bounties (1 day)?
During the recent Winter Bash, Yaakov "solicited help on finding ways to prevent (or at least make it harder) for folks to cheat at Hat Dash" and awarded successful users with a bounty.
The ...
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How did Community ♦ post a bounty on a question? [duplicate]
I am baffled by the following question bounty banner:
When is a bounty attributed to Community ♦?
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Cannot see an answer to my own question for which I received a notification
On December 20th I started a bounty (the very first bounty I have ever started) on my own question at this link and then I went on holidays.
During the bounty period I would swear I received a ...
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How can I modify a bounty notice (e.g., fix a typo)?
I made a typo while offering a bounty on the question Link for "serial voting" message
Is there a way to fix spelling errors in a bounty notice? Can site moderators do this?
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What does the bounty filter box's "Has bounty" do?
Not only can't I quite make sense of showing only bountied questions without bounty, de-selecting does not seem to have any effect either…
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Why have all the "Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?" reminders disappeared in my list of questions? [duplicate]
I remember seeing red messages like these when I look at my list of questions:
Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?
But I have not seen these (annoying) ...
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Does a bounty get awarded to the oldest answer or most recently edited answer? [duplicate]
When a bounty is automatically awarded, it goes to the first answer. Is this still the case when an answer was older, but was edited more recently by the original answerer than a newer answer with the ...
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If I set a bounty, will my reputation be deducted from that Stack Exchange site only?
I had got 100 reputation bonus on all Stack Exchange sites as association bonus. I need to set a 50 bounty on a question on the Biology Stack Exchange site. I understand my reputation will be deducted ...
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Is it possible for a user to have many badges, lots of voted questions and answer and have reputation 1? [duplicate]
User jww has plenty of badges on Stack Overflow (57 gold, 298 silver & 650 bronze).
He has 740 questions and 1.752 answers, some having lots of votes and reputation 1.
I can see he has: 47 Offered ...
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Is it possible that an awarded bounty takes time to be effective?
On this question the OP told me that he awarded me the bounty with the bounty icon bellow the accepted icon, but the bounty is not effectively awarded. Is this possible?
I know that the automatic ...
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When a bounty is returned by moderator, is this shown in the revision history (timeline, SEDE)?
Moderators can refund the bounty to the users offering bounties. (However, this only happens in some rare situations.) If that happens, can we see this in the timeline and revision history? Is some ...
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so far all bounties I have been awarded I have gotten after the grace period, is this just coincidence? [duplicate]
I have recently won a few bounties on stackoverflow. (I knew I would get them because the awarders told me in the comment they would give them to me or had flagged the answer as right) I eventually ...
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Can questions with an active bounty on them roomba? [duplicate]
I came across a question today which was older than 30 days, had just 30 views, and gotten a bounty (from a third person) today. It adheres to all of the criteria for the 30 day roomba, therefore my ...
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Granting multiple bounties [duplicate]
I've recently asked a question where I was pleasantly surprised by the merit of answers. I did post a bounty that since has been granted automatically, with half of the amount (got a bit sidetracked ...
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What can't I see the bounty on the answer?
I awarded a bounty for my question about keys in vim on Feb 13th, to reward an existing answer. I delayed the final "OK" to get more views. Help said
If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (...
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How can I see which users advertise their willingness to offer bounties in their user profile, ranked by their reputation?
How can I politely request a bounty to be placed on my question? - Meta Stack Exchange
Some users advertise their willingness to offer bounties in their user profile. Skim through that list and see ...
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Does question being closed prevent bounty being started on exemplary answer to it? [duplicate]
I wanted to award a bounty to this answer to Selecting the answer - I'm sure this must have been asked
The answer was posted three days ago and the question was closed two days ago, and yet the ...
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Why didn't I get any bounty after the question was accepted? [duplicate]
I have answered a question, and after the bounty expired, I didn't get any bounty.
And the bounty was started by the question owner,
the question owner accepted an answer during the bounty period, ...
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Can users award existing bounties on questions that get historically locked? Do automatic awards still work?
(Please note: while the topic of the example question cited here is controversial, this question is not a place to express your thoughts about it. This is a simple support question asking about the ...
