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Can bounty period be changed? The important question here is whether SE team adjusts such settings individually per site or only for the whole network. Although I have no official source of this, it seems that things related to bounties are network-wide settings. See, for example, here, here and here.

Can bounty period be changed? The important question here is whether SE team adjusts such settings individually per site or only for the whole network. Although I have no official source of this, it seems that things related to bounties are network-wide settings. See, for example, here, here and here.

It would be not the first thread collecting interesting questions on this meta: Interesting (and not sufficiently answered) questions on math.SE But perhaps chat room would be less intrusive than a separate thread. Whether the chosen implementation would be to create a chat room or a thread on meta, I do not think it would fill too quickly if the condition for posting would be that at least one bounty has already been placed on the post. (This condition would also prevent users from misusing this by posting there all questions they have.)

It would be not the first thread collecting interesting questions on this meta: Interesting (and not sufficiently answered) questions on math.SE But perhaps chat room would be less intrusive than a separate thread. Whether the chosen implementation would be to create a chat room or a thread on meta, I do not think it would fill too quickly if the condition for posting would be that at least one bounty has already been placed on the post. (This condition would also prevent users from misusing this by posting there all questions they have.)

I have made a similar proposal on Mathematics site. It seems that the suggestion was met with some enthusiasm judging from the upvotes on meta. (You can also have a look at the rules proposed there - the conditions which the question should meet before it is posted there.) However, the chat room created for this purpose is so far almost unused. (But I would wait a bit before calling this a complete failure. Maybe I was also at fault for not promoting the idea among math.SE users enough. Since there is an overlap between userbase of the two sites, perhaps my post can as a side effect also help to promote that chat room, but the main purpose of this post is to find out what MO community thinks about something similar here.) Considering that MO and Math.SE are rather different (if we compare the size of userbase, activity on meta, rate of asking questions, etc.), it is possible that it could work on MathOverflow even if it fails on Math.SE (and vice versa).

Is bounty period sufficient? Here we should first ask: sufficient for what. The purpose of the bounties is partly to incentivize answerers, but mainly to bring attention to the question. So efficiency of the bounties can be measured based on the number of additional views. I guess users skilled with Data Explorer have certainly created various queries examining this, see for example here.

I have made a similar proposal on Mathematics site. It seems that the suggestion was met with some enthusiasm judging from the upvotes on meta. (You can also have a look at the rules proposed there - the conditions which the question should meet before it is posted there.) However, the chat room created for this purpose is so far almost unused. (But I would wait a bit before calling this a complete failure. Maybe I was also at fault for not promoting the idea among math.SE users enough. Since there is an overlap between userbase of the two sites, perhaps my post can as a side effect also help to promote that chat room, but the main purpose of this post is to find out what MO community thinks about something similar here.) Considering that MO and Math.SE are rather different (if we compare the size of userbase, activity on meta, rate of asking questions, etc.), it is possible that it could work on MathOverflow even if it fails on Math.SE (and vice versa).

Is bounty period sufficient? Here we should first ask: sufficient for what. The purpose of the bounties is partly to incentivize answerers, but mainly to bring attention to the question. So efficiency of the bounties can be measured based on the number of additional views. I guess users skilled with Data Explorer have certainly created various queries examining this, see for example here.