Questions tagged [bounty]
For questions about the bounty system, which allows users to spend some of their reputation in order to draw more attention to a question.
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Do answers, given during grace period, count for a bounty?
Just curious..
A while ago, I commented on this question, to see if I could find information to give an answer. Just after the bounty period, but within the grace period, the poster commented that ...
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Starting bounty on others question
I am facing some problem with my Ubuntu and solving those problem is very much important for me. After searching on Ask Ubuntu, I found some similar questions here and here with little response.
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How to add bounty for a question?
I want to add bounty to this Q but I don't find an option for the same in the Q. How to do that please?
I also checked "https://askubuntu.com/help/bounty" but couldn't get a reason (Have I overlooked ...
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How to take back my bounty? [duplicate]
In the case you set a bounty for your question and gave it to someone but after trying the accepted answer it did not work: how could you take back the bounty and let the question open again for a ...
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Where to put bounty information?
Sparked by a chat discussion about this question, I think we should think of a way to put some order to bounty information.
What information is interesting?
Sometimes, one would like to include ...
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Is is possible to cancel a bounty?
Is it possible to cancel a bounty if I found the answer to my question?
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Will bounty be given to the accepted answer?
There is a question which had a bounty and it was given to the highest voted answer (as the faq says), but none of the answers has been accepted yet.
What if someone answers this question (perhaps ...
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What happens to bounty of closed/deleted question?
I went through the description of bounty and its terms / rules. However, I couldn't find what will happen if I have a bounty on my own question and I decide to close or delete the question.
Any ...
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Where is the number of questions which have an open bounty?
I used to see a number of questions which have an open bounty in FEATURED tab. Now it has disappeared. Why? Again I have to do a patchwork to this site?
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Can we change the bounty rep requirement?
Currently, you need 75 reputation to start a bounty.
However, some migrating users (meaning users that have an account with 100+ rep on another site) use this privilege a bit much.
They will ...
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What is the purpose of the ability to bounty a meta question?
I have recently decided to bounty a meta question of mine. This got me thinking about bounties on meta questions.
What is the purpose of them? In my case, only the moderators and high rep'd users ...
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Are there other ways to increase the chances of getting questions answered besides bounties?
Are there other ways to increase the chances of getting questions answered besides bounties?
For example, I would love to see an answer for this question --What are the steps to modify a filesystem (...
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Bounty on another question
Am trying to give a bounty in this question Limiting internet bandwidth for already started applications but somehow the option does not appeared. I tested on Firefox 4 and Chrome 12/13. It appears in ...
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Is there a way in increase Bounty?
I would like to increase the award amount of the bounty that I set a few days ago.
Is that possible?
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Why did this answer get bounty from Community?
This answer recieved a bounty of 50 from Community.
Why? What's the algorithm/reasoning behind this?
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What are the criteria for receiving a bounty if it is not manually awarded?
Realizing that I'm running the risk of sounding extremely petty, I'm confused and curious enough that I have to ask. :) There was a question with a bounty of 50. I answered this question after the ...
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Should I feel bad about not giving a bounty to an answer on a bountied question?
I asked this question a while ago and gave a bounty of 50 rep to it. I received some good answers in no time and went through them. Although they didn't fix my problem.
Next the bounty was over and ...
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Would it make sense to prolong bounty time limit for large bounties?
There are some annoyances that would require more than just a casual google or from the top of the head answer. Some questions and problems require effort in answering, and the bounty system helps ...
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Where is the Bounty?
From this question I started a bounty that ended recently. After the bounty started user luri edited his answer to give a most useful additional information that made me award the bounty. However ...
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Is it ok to advertise an otherwise wasted bounty?
I asked a question a few days back. No one answered, so I put up a 50-point bounty. A day or two after that, I found an answer and answered my own question. No one else has answered.
I do not expect ...
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Bounty for self answered question
I have this question from a user that I was trying to help.
It was taking a bit of time to troubleshot everything so I offered a bounty for it.
After that I could pin point the problem and answer it,...
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Adding comments to a bounty
I offered a bounty for my question. During starting the bounty, it asks me to add some extra comments that what you are looking for. I just select the below option and started the bounty.
This ...
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Unable to put a bounty of only 50 on my question
I wanted to put a bounty on an old question, but am only able to put up 100, 150, 200, 250 or 300 (no option of 50). Any ideas why?
FAQs says I should be able to do just 50. Is this something to do ...
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Why don't I get my reputation back when I answer the question myself?
I posted this answer to my own question on which I had set a bounty. I lost the rep immediately when I set the bounty = OK, that's expected. I didn't get the bounty back when I added the best answer ...
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Is it alright to not award a bounty?
Background: I was asking a question about Wireless LTSP, and while I received two answers that seem like they might work, I have no way of testing them right now (but I should a little bit later). I ...
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Featured Questions should display the higher bounties first
I think that it is more motivating for somebody to give a higher bounty, knowing that it will be closer to the top on the featured questions section.
Then, questions with the same bounties should be ...
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Community Wiki bounties should be split
I believe that bounties that are awarded to community wiki questions should be split according to the work done by each user(See the percentages under any community wiki answer to get this data) ...
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Bounty on adobe AIR Ubuntu 10.10 question
I see that there is a bounty on a question about installing adobe AIR on Ubuntu 10.10
The description reads: "The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes."
I don'...
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Losing privilege with points lost in setting bounties
Is it appropriate for users to lose privileges with handing out bounties? I've recently posted a bounty worth 400 points and consequently lost even the simple privilege of commenting everywhere. I ...
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How to set bounty? sufficient rep but no link [closed]
At the time I asked this question (Is an ACPI GPE storm normal in an Ubuntu session?) I didn't have enough rep. Now I do and I want to set a bounty, but there's no link.
The link states "question ...
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No option found to start a bounty [duplicate]
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Why I can't initiate a bounty
I have started a question which is quite old now and i din get any clear solution to that question still. So i thought to start a bounty for ...
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Bounty chronology, possible or N/A?
I just started my first bounty on Ask Ubuntu! A very special one as I offered it on another person's question. Btw, gaining the Investor Badge.
Actually I'm planning to keep track of them using my ...
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Can I award bounty to my own answer? [duplicate]
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Is a user not allowed to give the bounty to himself?
I had answered a question and got many upvotes for it. However, the asker accepted another answer as the correct one. I ...
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Dividing a question along with bounties
I've asked a big question with a bounty of 400 reputation. It's not getting the attention and replies as I hoped for. Can I ask for a moderator to break it down to simpler question and dividing the ...
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