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@Spevacus back at ya, I didn't get notified about this chat reply until I had updated my inbox several times. There were other inbox notifications but originally not these (several in this chat and some others on various non-SO sites; the notifs I got at first were all on Stack Overflow)=
Hmm. I've been able to prove it to myself a long time ago but this kicked in again... I discovered I could offer as much bounties as I would wish without worrying about reputation (it takes time though).
I've pondered about it and decided it's not worth a feature request about all bounty-earned reputation being lost when the offerer deletes their account similar to vote reps.
Yep. A FR is probably not warranted. I'd consider this an exceptional case. And we can catch those. With mods.
Overall, systems do not need be automatically resilient to every single kind of abuse. They should definitely handle the most common ones. But very rare abuse vectors with low-ish impact are just not worth dev time. Especially if you already have humans looking at the system and able to correct it. Realistically, you could try to give away "infinite rep" but it'd not be subtle at all and caught pretty fast.
A bunch of bounties popping up from a new user who gives away their association bonus is just too noticeable whatever you do. And I'd expect mods to step in pretty early and take away the rep from bounties.
You could also make it very subtle by delaying it in time. If you give out 1 bounty per month or so. I mean, chances are somebody would notice. But even if they don't, it's not quite infinite rep. We're talking about, what, 12*75=900 rep per year? Or is the max you can do with the association bonus 50 (so, 600 a year)? It's not going to be super impactful overall. Very time consuming for very little return.
Yeah, but at that point - what even is the benefit? If you give out 75 rep to 12 people in a year, then let's say you've "cheated the system" but hardly gained anything from it.
I wanted to announce a fun new project I’ve been working on with the Stack Overflow Content Team to launch a new podcast series. We’re launching a new show called "We’ll Be in Touch," focusing on developer interviews and career development. Each episode is roughly in the format of a developer i...
