Questions tagged [bounty]
A bounty is a way to get additional attention for a question by offering some of your own reputation for great answers.
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chatGPT and Delete - Have others noticed this trend?
I had a +200 bounty question set to expire in 2 hours when I got an answer to it. I suspected the answer of being written by ChatGPT based on the format, and material of the answer. The answer did not ...
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When is it appropriate to bounty a "contested question"?
In recent times, I bountied a question when it was reopened prior to a previous closing. Unfortunately, the bounty started on a time with four close votes. The bounty was apparently manually removed ...
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Make bounty messages editable [duplicate]
Would it please be possible to add the ability to edit a bounty message?
I recently posted a bounty, but forgot to include some details by mistake and made some formatting errors, as I was unable to ...
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bad break in bounty banner
The bounty banner looks bad. I’d be surprised if it’s always looked like this and I never noticed, so I suspect something was broken. Here’s a screenshot:
There are two related problems with this. (I ...
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Can't place a second bounty after grace period.
I posted a question on Christmas and placed a bounty on it. I'm planning to re-bounty the question for 100 points today, but the system isn't letting me do that. Also, it is saying "award this ...
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Bounty Message despite Accepted Answer
Why am I getting this message? (Note in this case I'm getting it after accepting an answer.)
In this case, I had this message for long as I had neither accepted nor received any answer. But then, ...
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Etiquette of bounty on PSQs.
This question was asked by an account that has currently been suspended temporarily. I found this question, liked it too much, and put a bounty on it (At that time the account was not suspended I ...
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Question about bounties and serial votes. [closed]
Can I see the question that I put a bounty on (I am not the OP of that question) in the “bountied questions” list? I can’t seem to be able to see it and am freaking out, thinking it’s not getting ...
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How do I start a bounty?
I would like to start a bounty for the question:
How to calculate the integral of a product of a spherical Hankel function with associated Legendre polynomials
Below the questions and existing ...
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Why can't I edit the tags of my post? Why do people not seem to be interested in it?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Trying to prove a proposition about the nth order derivative of a polynomial by induction - is this correct?
I tried to add the proof-...
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Number of bounties offered by a user
Is it possible to see how many bounties offered a specific user and how many of these bounties were awarded?
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List of earned bounties shows the state of question, not the answer.
In the profile page, when you check the list of earned bounties, as usual it shows the titles of the questions (like in 'answers' tab). Nevertheless, it shows the score of the questions, not the ...
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I made the best answer to my own question after posting a bounty on it. Now I'm losing $50$ points when I haven't done anything wrong. A bit unfair?
The question I'm talking about: For any unbounded set of real numbers, is there a subset which almost coincides with a uniformly spread out set of points an infinite amount of times?
I answered it ...
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Protocol for cross posting when question did not receive any response.
Recently I've posted a question asking for help to find a numerical optimization algorithm for a given problem.
Here is the question Optimizing filtering and thresholding parameter before integrating ...
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I would like to bounty a question that lacks context and possibly focus
This question claims three interesting limits about primes. I think it is poorly phrased, in that there is no context, source, or effort; further, it's unclear if any of the limits are related.
That ...
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What does this mean 'Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?' [duplicate]
Can anyone help me in informing how can I accept an answer? Also can anyone tell how can I start a bounty? I think I have no control about it but please help.
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Bountied question didn't pop up
I placed a bounty on this question to reward an existing answer. But it neither bumped to the homepage, nor can be seen on the bountied list. Where did my bounty go? When will it appear on the ...
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Why awkward rules for bounties?
I started a bounty for a certain answer to:
Estimate a logistic function from an estimated exponential function
I had to wait one week to tell who was going to get the bounty and the bounty just ...
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Restate or withdraw a badly written bountied-question
I've been a member of this community for almost 9 years.
Recently, I've asked a question with a bounty - my first time!
Anyway, I've later realized that my question was badly written (just FYI, the ...
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How do we know if there's someone working on my question?
I'm just curious (and sometimes annoyed) that, it's sometimes really hard to tell whether a question is being solved by someone, or just forgotten by the community. Especially, when a problem is hard ...
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Why not allow closing of bountied question by normal users when they are in bounty stages?
Recently there have been a lot of questions which are bountied but PSQ (Problem Statement Question). Here is one, another one although now closed, not a bounty not but once was and many more which one ...
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Awarding a bounty to an undeserving answer [duplicate]
I put out a bounty on a question I made in order to call attention to it. While this had the intended effect and my post received an answer, said answer was incorrect. I got notified that I must award ...
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Should I edit the question before starting a bounty, or start a new question?
I have a question I would like to start a bounty on. But I would like to edit the question to add the possibility for a stronger result. The question I want to start a bounty on is this question:
For ...
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Transferring reputation between different SE sites [closed]
As someone who has accounts on multiple Stack Exchange sites I am wondering if there is a means by which reputation between accounts can be transferred.
This may be useful, for example, to offer a ...
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How to search for bounties awarded to my answers?
Is there a convenient way to search for answers of mine that have been awarded bounties? I know that I can look through the "reputation" tab of my user profile, but this is very tedious, ...
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Bounty and visibility for low-rep users
I asked a question this month, and it didn't get much attention. I tried bumping it two times by adding a tag and by editing the title for something more fitting, but it still didn't draw much more ...
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Etiquette of letting a bounty expire on a question with an upvoted but incomplete answer?
I posted a question on math.SE a few weeks back, which received a fair bit of attention and some promising leads in the comments but no clear answers. I posted a +100 bounty on the question, and ...
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Bounties don't last long enough
I've personally been involved in one, two, three questions with bounties which were effectively awarded plus two that were placed and not answered. Twice answering and thrice asking. And each time ...
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Is there a 'polite amount' to put up as a bounty for someone else's question?
Every now and again I see a question that I would like to know the answer to but don't know how to solve. I don't mind offering bounties but since I don't have a ton of rep, I'm wondering if a bounty ...
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Question on the Retaining or Forfeiture of Bounty Points When the Awarding User is Removed
My question is: If User A awards User B a bounty, say 500 points, and later on, User A either requests to be removed or is removed (i.e., ``User was removed''), does User B retain those 500 bounty ...
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How do I edit the description for a bounty after I have started a bounty
Is there a way to edit the text description I have put in for a bounty on a question?
I started a bounty, but made a math composition error in the text and don't know how to fix that as there is no ...
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Are there any users who have invested more than what they presently have?
Are there any Mathematics SE users who have invested more reputation points in bounties than what they presently have? How can one find out?
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Shouldn't the "impossible" badges be removed?
You can't set bounties on meta sites
So why are there still those 4 bounty related badges!?
P.S. I definitely wasn't going to waste atleast 100 reputation points just to get atleast two badges that no ...
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What happens to questions with bounty when OP was suspended for more than 8 days?
What happens to questions with bounty when OP was suspended for more than 8 days?
Will the bounty be lost? or will be refunded? or in case someone answers will be awarded somehow?
Thank you
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An answer that did not answer my question might get some reputation points from the bounty
A few days ago I asked this question: My question
That question was on an exam my teacher gave us to help us prepare to the final exam. I only got one answer but the answer claimed that I made a ...
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Feature to remind users to place a bounty
Often times a question comes along that I really want to know the answer to, but I can see that it has not received much attention yet. I can only place a bounty after some time has passed. ...
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Clarification of meaning of $3$ badges
I'm a bit confused about meaning of certain badges:
$1$. A badge is said to be rewarded for "First bounty you manually award on another person's question". Shouldn't this description be &...
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Question does not gain answers in Math Stack Exchange. Would a migration to StackOverflow be a solution?
I recently asked this question in Math Stack Exchange but does not gain any answers even though I bountied it.
It seems either there aren‘t many people familiar with the Singular-CAS in Math Stack ...
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People answering to bounty just for the prize
A couple of times it happened to me that I bountied a question. If nobody has answered, the day before the expire date of the bounty some guy answers with some stupid answer, just to take the bounty ...
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How do Community bounties work?
I recently answered a question with a bounty offered by "Community". How are such bounties awarded? Who decides which response gets the bounty?
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Launching *Pearl Dive* - a chatroom where excellent questions/answers meet willing sponsors
Announcing the birth of the Pearl Dive – a chatroom dedicated to enhancing the quality of the material on the site, sieving out the pearls from the sand.
Caveat: I'm new to creating chatrooms, ...
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Would it be a good idea to create a Bounty chatroom?
Would it be a good idea to create a chatroom for users to ask for bounties on questions (own or not)?
Say OP (user) wants/needs an answer to a question (could be their own or not).
But for some ...
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Can I start a bounty on a already answered question?
I came across with the following question
Definition of "descends to"
I think that is a question that many students of algebraic geometry (and probably many others) have in the ...
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1/2 of question answered by different people
In the question I posed here:
A characterization of Weak Convergence in $L^p$ spaces
I have a two way implication, one way was answered by one person, the other answered by another. I'd like to ...
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Is it possible to set a bounty for an old question somehow?
I want to try my luck and see if someone can answer this question I made about a month ago:
Simplifying the summation $ (3^i\sqrt{n/3^i})/\log_2(n/3^i)$ from $i=0 \text{ to }k-1$
I thought maybe a ...
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What happens if you flag a question with bounty?
Suppose someone post a problem statement question so no attempts on the problem and it also happens that no one flag the question neither so it won't be on hold nor closed and somebody else (could be ...
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Bounty question not visible on *Featured* tab
I offered bounty on one of my own questions. I was expecting it to be on the Fetaured tab. But it fails to show up there. As per the FAQ a question with a bounty is supposed to be visible there.
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Does putting a bounty on a question kill the question?
I recently placed a bounty on a long-standing zero-answer question (that question is in this link):
Does there exist a space filling curve which sends every convex set to a convex set ?
My goal was ...
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The error message "Unable to load popup -please try again" when I start a bounty
Recently, I tried to start a bounty for two of my questions. But the error message "Unable to load popup -please try again" appears every time I start the bounty.
I don't know whether it is a error ...
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Why can't I start a bounty? (More than three bounties.)
Why can't I start a bounty in this question
From the unit disk to the right half plane and $T(0)=3$
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It's been more than 2 days since I asked. I wanted to put 100 points as bounty but there's no ...
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