Timeline for What happens to all the points when my bounty expires?
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 6:04 | comment | added | Nmath | @Marecky - please note that when you "spend" reputation on a bounty you are paying for the increased visibility of the question. You're not guaranteed an answer. The "no refund" policy ensures that the bounty system is used judiciously on questions that are well-asked, otherwise many users would offer and retract bounties with disregard and there would be far too many bountied questions for the visibility bump to be effective. This is why you are not owed a "refund"-- the question received the visibility bump for the whole bounty period. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 13:34 | answer | added | Thomas WardMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 13:31 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @Marecky you should also be aware that bounties are usually not a good way to get a complete concise answer because most people don't seek bounties when they have the specialized experience. Overall trend of bounty behavior doesn't necessarily get the best answers in the world. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | Dan | @Marecky Your point is valid. However, it's not really plausible to have a model that works for 100% of the users, unfortunately. There can only be solutions that mitigate the problem. As you said, life happens. Allowing bounties to be retracted is easily and extremely abusable. Allowing users a very long time to grant the bounties would frustrate people who answer, etc. In my opinion, what SE has now, seems quite fair and works for the majority of the cases without it being abusable. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:05 | history | edited | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 11:34 | comment | added | Marecky | Sorry to hear that. IMO this is unfair for both sides, forcing urgent decision (solution takes time to check if it works), and disregarding life beyond the keyboard (life happens). But this approach adheres to all stackexchange community - being soulless. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 11:06 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | You had a whole week plus a 24 hour grace period to award the bounty. As you didn't award it and no answers have a score of +2 the rep is just gone and no one gets the bounty. See here for more details: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/… | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 11:00 | history | asked | Marecky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |