Timeline for Using bounty to prevent a question from being closed
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| Mar 1, 2022 at 11:35 | comment | added | YCor | I've just flagged mathoverflow.net/questions/417067 on these grounds. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 31, 2014 at 17:38 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Perhaps losing the bounty without refund is a good incentive to refrain from offering bounties on bad questions. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:24 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @StefanKohl: That would effectively remove the bounty without refund. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Why do bounties prevent close votes at all, i.e. what is the rationale behind this? | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | user9072 | It might be worth adding that there is an initial safe-guard against such use of bounties, namely, one cannot place a bounty on a question within the first 48h. This is normally enough time to close clearly off-topic questions. (Indeed, the one in question was reopened, showing it is not a clear-cut case.) | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | I meant at the beginning of the first bounty. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:11 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @AsafKaragila: There were no such votes. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | The situation is worse, since placing a bounty means that standing closing votes expire by the time the bounty ends. So if the question previously had four standing votes, and a bounty was placed it means that it essentially nullified these four votes. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 15:51 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |