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Why can't we close questions that have a bounty?
Closing a question prevents new answers to be added. If one could close a question with a bounty, the net effect would be to shorten the bounty period, possibly causing the loss or misattribution of ...
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Make it evident that bounties are non-refundable or refund them on other people's questions
The fact that the bounties are not refundable is pointed out in the help center and marked in bold:
All bounties are paid for up front and non-refundable under any circumstances.
Also the dialog ...
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Why is it not possible to offer a bounty for longer than 7 days?
I consider the 7 day bounty period to be quite reasonable and effective for several reasons.
While bounties cost a minimum of 50 pts, in reality the cost for a bounty for one's own question is much ...
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How can I avoid getting a bounty?
This is perhaps not technically an answer, but in real sense it is: just don't worry about it. Points are not worth worrying about, and the precise number you have really doesn't matter. Your ...
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Loophole to avoid closure: deletion + bounty?
If you see a question that seems off-topic or inappropriate for MathOverflow, but protected from close votes by a bounty, please flag for moderator attention. We can remove the bounty, and in ...
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Bounty from Community
This is answered at the StackExchange bounty FAQ. If a user account is deleted with an outstanding bounty, then the Community user becomes the bounty owner, and the points are eventually awarded ...
S. CarnahanMod
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Why I am not allowed to answer protected questions?
It seems that the bounty you offered adds $-100$ to what counts as "reputation earned on this site" for the purpose of answering protected questions. At least, that is my understanding based ...
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Why isn't "Nobody has answered" on the multiple-choice list of reasons for a bounty?
I am fine with the current wording. Is that really attention, if no one cared enough to write a full answer? Comments in the Stack Exchange system are meant to be a way to suggest improvements to the ...
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Bountied question has already been answered elsewhere
I have now figured out how West's argument works and wrote it up on the bounty I started. I'll wait a day or so to see if there are any more developments and then give West a 250 bounty on his answer.
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Make it evident that bounties are non-refundable or refund them on other people's questions
I'm going to make a sort of meta-comment that might explain the negative reaction that people have to this question. I think there are two issues:
I think that many people (including me) find the ...
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Remove the upper bound on the number of bounties a single user can have at any moment
I personally see the limit to three bounties as a very minor issue. Very little would change if users were able to have an unlimited number of bounties at once. I personally do not have any strong ...
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How do I know if I've bountied a question before?
You can see list of all your past bounties in your profile page on the bounty tab. (You can choose between viewing active, offered and earned bounties there.) It works exactly the same on Math.SE.
If ...
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Should be simply "no answer" among bounty reasons
It appears that whatever boilerplate the software produces, you can add your own text to the reason for offering the bounty.
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Should we have standing bounties?
There are several sites which use a separate post on meta for collecting "standing bounties" (is there some better terminology for them)?
Of course, if MO users want to consider a similar ...
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Giving "bountied questions" more visibility weight
This is to some extent similar to answer to a related feature request on Meta Stack Exchange.
Since the featured ("bountied") questions are already shown relatively prominently, I do not think that ...
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Why I cannot start bounty on my own question, just because I have answered it?
You can find links to some basic information about bounties in the corresponding tag-info.
These two points from the faq item How does the bounty system work? are relevant:
You must have at least ...
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What would be good place to list unresolved bounties?
Since we are discussing access to some old featured questions, it might be useful to summarize methods which already are available.
This answer is a community wiki - feel free to add other ...
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Why is it not possible to offer a bounty for longer than 7 days?
I would like to address the points in the extensive answer by Joseph Van Name (EDIT. unfortunately deleted by the author), that would be too lengthy to put in comments:
In case of my question, all ...
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Is bounties period sufficient?
Although the question asks about bounty period, I guess that the most important thing for the OP is whether the bounty brings additional attention and increases chance of getting the question answered....
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Is bounties period sufficient?
In a related thread, it was pointed out that
it seems that some users would consider having somewhere complete list of past bounties a good idea
While it does not do much for extending the bounty ...
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Is there a best day of the week for offering a bounty in MathOverflow?
Probably various statistics about this can be found - and it all depends a bit on how you define best time. I have tried to make at least some queries using Data Explorer. (Notice that it is possible ...
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What about bountying a meta question?
The question here is - who are you trying to get the attention of?
In your example, you're talking about something that the community seems to have weighed-in on at least to some degree. If you think ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible