Questions tagged [bounty]
A way to attract attention to questions and answers by offering some of your own reputation as a reward to an answer
23 questions
2 votes
1 answer
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Inactivity on bounties with no deadlines?
The List of bounties with no deadline is a page where there are bounties that can be awarded anytime. However majority of these were created quite awhile ago and some comments don't receive feedback ...
7 votes
0 answers
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Proposal to mark Inactive posts in "List of bounties with no deadline" accordingly
I recently completed a bounty from List of bounties with no deadline, only to later realize it was inactive. This was a little disappointing and I believe this could easily be avoided by editing these ...
7 votes
1 answer
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Removing unnecessary bounty templates - final consensus
EDIT - seems like this change is a bit harder than I initially thought. I'll still collect ideas and we might look to get this changed in the future, but it's not a high priority. This is now at +7/0 ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Improving Bounty Reasons [duplicate]
How could the bounty reasons be improved? has been status-review for four years now. I think we should have this discussion again, since nothing really seemed to happen from the last one, and we can ...
8 votes
2 answers
245 views
Adding tags to bounties?
For a while now, most bounties on our site are rewards for existing answers. As a consequence, it's pretty hard to spot any bounty that would fall into the 'Draw attention' or 'Bonus / Side challenge' ...
2 votes
2 answers
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Creating a multiple-challenge competition
I wanted to create a golfing competition that would be split in n different challenges, each posted with k days in between one ...
2 votes
1 answer
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"Voidhawk's well-explained answer was the first one here in APL"?
The phrase "Voidhawk's well-explained answer was the first one here in APL" appears in 3 featured questions on PPCG with an active bounty. It seems out of place and I'm not sure what it means. Does ...
26 votes
1 answer
424 views
Offering a bounty in exchange for upvotes
I saw this challenge which makes the following offer: Note: A bounty will be placed on this question once it gets 10 upvotes Although we discourage begging for upvotes, excessive self promotion, and ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Bounty on a challenge?
I'm considering adding a bounty to this question, once it qualifies: Bot: Outsnake the game! I just wondered what the etiquette is for bounties on code challenges: Should it be awarded in a given ...
0 votes
0 answers
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How should we edit questions which have non-expiring bounties attached to them?
Just like we have a format for answering code golf, cracking cops and robbers, and posting most challenges, I am curious as to what (if any) format we should have for questions that have bounties with ...
7 votes
1 answer
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I created a bounty to award an answer that was deleted; what now?
A while ago I offered reputation to the first person that could come up with a solution to this problem using Brain-Flak/Brain-Flueue. A user was successful and I created a bounty on the question to ...
4 votes
0 answers
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Bounty ad not appearing correctly
I was looking at a question and I saw this: It looks like a bounty ad's image wasn't loading. In case you are wondering, the image URL was https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/codegolf....
8 votes
1 answer
310 views
Why is the no deadline bounties post not featured?
This post, "List of bounties with no deadline" is a collection of, well, bounties without a deadline. It's not featured, and I wonder why? It's a very useful and important community post. I ...
2 votes
1 answer
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How might I reward a Robber for an especially good crack?
To keep a concise title I have left out a few details, but here is the dilemma: I have a cops post that has not yet been cracked. I would like to reward the first person to figure out my solution ...
16 votes
2 answers
383 views
How could the bounty reasons be improved? [duplicate]
One of the more popular suggestions from We're not a Q&A site. But what should be done about it? was to improve the wording of the bounty reasons or maybe change some of them altogether. We've ...