Timeline for Should I award a bounty to a non-accepted answer (but what if)?
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| Jul 28, 2019 at 14:14 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @clearkimura well, votes are as personal as bounties. People may vote as they please (as long as they're not abusing the system by serial voting or the like). I would argue none of this is your problem: if you want to award a bounty to an answer, then that's your right. That said, OPs can and do sometimes accept bad or even wrong answers, so downvoting an accepted answer may well be a perfectly reasonable thing to do. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 14:11 | comment | added | user37165 | @terdon I have seen this before: OP had accepted the most voted answer for a question; later, some users disagreed and commented "OP should have accepted this answer" and people would up-vote "this answer" and the accepted ones would be down-voted. That might not be same with bounties: Say if a bounty is given to a good answer with zero votes, people may disagree by casting down-vote that zero votes answer and the result is an answer with some -N votes with the permanent bounty. This is one unintended result that I am trying to avoid. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 12:26 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @clearkimura not really. The main point is that it's your bounty and you can award it to whichever answer you want. Worst case scenario, if you give it to a non-answer which is deleted, you will have wasted your points and your efforts, but it's still your call. Just like accepting an answer, awarding a bounty is a personal choice and nobody gets to tell you which answer to give it to. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 12:24 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
"shall" doesn't really work there :)
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| Jul 28, 2019 at 5:27 | comment | added | user37165 | So basically: Decision is on whom started the bounty; both mixed votes and zero votes do not necessarily mean bad answers; bounties should be awarded to not just good answers, but outstanding answers. +1 | |
| Jul 27, 2019 at 19:00 | history | answered | Byte CommanderMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |