Timeline for Why can't we close questions that have a bounty?
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| May 5, 2017 at 7:31 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Hi @François, it seems as though the tempers have cooled off a bit at Cauchy, and a day has gone by without any further closing votes. Would it be appropriate to post a bounty at this stage? | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 17:07 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @YemonChoi, agreed :-) It would be helpful if you could clarify what it is about the question that you don't like. If it is critical of some historians' work on Cauchy, it seems to me there should be room at MO for such challenges. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I have not voted to close, nor have I downvoted, even though I really don't like the question; if we are to point out it has been upvoted by no fewer than 19, we should point out that it has been downvoted by no fewer than 13 | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 16:38 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | ...aware of both in this post and in the one on Lagrange. I find such cracking down surprising. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 16:37 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @FrançoisG.Dorais, you are of course entitled to do what you feel is appropriate as a moderator, but I object to treating this question, which has been upvoted by no fewer than 19 users, as inherently problematic. Otherwise why would you cancel the second bounty? Whoever wants to close the question can certainly wait for 7 days as bounties are not eternal. Your presumption that this will be closed a second time is not necessarily in the spirit of presumption of innocence. I am genuinely interested in getting additional information on this. For example, Beenakker provided details I was not... | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 16:18 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @MikhailKatz: The bounty was removed again. There were no close votes because the question was just reopened. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 15:22 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | There are currently no "close" votes and the bounty is in place. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 1:08 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | For the specific question that prompted this one, the bounty seems to have been removed. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 0:01 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |