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Paul Siegel
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What happens when a question with a bounty is migrated?

I asked a question a few days ago which has received no responses (comments or answers) in spite of the fact that I put a 150 point bounty on it yesterday. It is quite possible that it just hasn't caught the right person's attention yet and so I'm going to leave it for another couple days, but I'm starting to suspect that it will get more attention at cstheory.stackexchange.

My question is: if a moderator were to migrate the question, what would happen to the bounty? If the bounty transfers then it would create a means for transferring points in bulk from one forum to another, and it seems unlikely that the system would be designed this way. But if the bounty vanishes then it would make more sense to wait out the bounty period before migrating. Does anybody know what will happen?

Paul Siegel
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