THANKS!

I suggest using http://paste.ubuntu.com.

I don't think our problem is the lack of answers, but all those unanswered questions (in the "two upvotes"-sense) that just need to be closed. Best case: a question is only open because nobody knows ...

Only the bounties you start show up in the rep graph.

I initially upvoted the question, but after giving it a second thougt, I'm all for closing it. I just don't see any legitimate reasons to fake traffic, so answering this is nothing but enabling the ...

The main chat room has a low post frequency most of the time, so I don't see an urgent need to remove bot chatter - whether it's deemed useful or not.

For now I work around this by overriding the code tag padding using a user style sheet for askubuntu.com: p code { padding: 1px 3px!important; }

In my opinion either the edit link alone or all the links could do with some more attention. Here's a (maybe too extreme) example: Maybe it could also help to just switch the positions of tags and ...

Override the style sheet (a good browser should let you add site specific user style sheets): .tagged-interesting { background-color: #f7f7f7 !important; }

This should work: add a dummy answer to the question when starting a bounty, delete it, and if after seven days there's no decent answer, undelete yours, award the bounty, delete it again.