Need to know how to award bounty on another persons question and how it helps?
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For whatever reason when I go to other people's questions that are eligible for bounty it appears that I can put bounty on them when they are not my own questions!  Is this supposed to happen?
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I think   and  may reveal a bug in the bounty system.  The timeline summary as I see it is:   Question asked Mar 17 Answer added Mar 18 Question edited (extended) and bounty added Mar 20  Answer edited and accepted Mar 21 Bounty ends "with no winning answer" Mar 28   This was the only answer to the question.  From      If the bounty starter accepted an answer during the bounty period, that answer is awarded the bounty.   This appears to be the case here, so I'd expect the bounty to be awarded.  Is this a bug in the bounty system?  I'm not too fussed about the actual bounty here (I'd answered the question before the bounty was offered anyway), it's just that it'd be good to either fix the bug or improve the documentation I guess.
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I figured out a method to abuse the Association Bonus, however I'm unsure whether or not this is a serious issue. Are there anti systems in place that prevent this?       Prerequisites: 1 account with the Association bonus, and 1 account with 100 reputation on a different site.      Step 1: Create a bounty on the first account using the association bonus on the site on which the second account has 100 reputation, and award it to the second account.  The second account now has 200 reputation and will receive the Association Bonus.    Step 2: Abuse the bounty system to give the association bonus from the second account back to the first.    Step 3: Create a third account, and again abuse the bounty system to gift 200 reputation to it from the second account.  Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 in order to gain infinite reputation.    Step 5: Give the 200 reputation back to the first account.    Please don't actually do this.
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with no answers.  But still the text of the bounty message says     This question had a bounty worth +50 reputation from juergen d that ended yesterday; you must award this bounty as soon as possible   Please remove the highlighted text if the question has no answers. I can't award it.
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clearly belongs elsewhere, but the asker already put a bounty on the question.  If the question is migrated, does the rep get refunded? Does the question continue to be a bounty question on the target site if the user has enough rep? (The asker in the referenced question does not have any associated accounts, but I'm curious about what happens.)  Edit: I just tried to add my own close vote, but apparently you can't when there's an open bounty. However, a mod should still be able to close/migrate/etc.
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It says in the faq:     If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount. If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone.   Then why I did not get half of bounty for this question:   I need to mention that the author accepted the answer and then declined it; might have something to do with that.
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I have 78 reputation and  is eligible for bounty 2 days ago. Yet I cannot offer a bounty on my question.    It appears that because I have an answer on my question, the system requires me to offer a minimum bounty of 100. But since my answer is already deleted, what can I do to offer a bounty on my question now?
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Since  is not really intended behaviour apparently, I propose a period of 24 hours after the bounty has expired during which the question will not be on the featured tab but the promoter can still manually award the bounty. The "cost" of this would be that no new bounty could be set up until the old one were awarded.  Similar to , which got closed as a duplicate without duplicate link... (Well, according to Robert's comment there, it's , to which he replied with basically what I am proposing here, but an answer is not a feature-request...)
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Is there any possible way to search and list the bountied questions separately in SE?
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The bounty to one of my answers wasn't awarded to me when in fact the user that asked the question accepted my answer 2 days before it ended. Why would this happen? The bounty help states that if the user that asked the question selects an answer that the user who answered the question would receive the bounty.  This is the question:    The notice says:     This question had a bounty worth +[x] reputation from [user] that ended yesterday. Grace period has ended
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Shouldn't there be a way to prevent automatic awarding of a bounty? For example, if someone provides an answer that sounds good but is totally wrong, it may happen that it gets a score of +2, but doesn't deserve the bounty. If no one else answers, half the bounty will automatically go to this person. Automatic awarding is good if an inactive user offers a bounty, but I think there should be a button that basically means "I know the bounty should now be awarded, but I have read the answers and none of them deserve the bounty".  The button should obviously not refund the bounty, just let it go to /dev/null instead of awarding it to someone who doesn't deserve it.
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I've read the FAQ, the blog post announcing the decoupling of bounty from answer accepting, and many of the questions here relating to bounty, but I still haven't figured out why this bounty system works so non-intuitively.  Here's what happened recently:   I asked a question on StackOverflow Having received no answers, I added a bounty. Someone provided an answer. I accepted an answer   Why would I not expect that in my accepting of that answer that my bounty would automatically be awarded? Luckily, the answerer notified me that the bounty would expire and only give him half (!?).  I understand that:   Others can now offer bounty on a question they didn't ask &ndash; it makes sense that bounty would have to be manually in those cases. Bounty can be auto-awarded when it expires.   However, I don't understand why with what seems like the most common scenario, we wouldn't auto-award the bounty to the answerer of the actual accepted answer. What is the purpose of making it more difficult to do what is obviously intended?  Note: I didn't notice  or maybe just didn't realize that the bounty system had changed since I had last used it. This popup should make it clear that "you haven't awarded your bounty to this answer" which is not intuitively obvious, which should lead us to question why awarding the bounty is a separate step.
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I have this question here:  I chose 500 then before accepting decided that was too much and halfed it, but now I just want the answer so I'd like to raise it to 500 but I can't find how to it. Also it's just such an irritating problem that I'd give all my rep away if I could to the clever person who has the answer. It would be nice to have a few minutes after creating the bounty to be able to raise it. But for now could a mod or something please raise it for me to 500.
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Often more than one person contributes to the community coming up with the final accepted answer to a question. However, it is only possible to accept a single answer. Restricting to one final answer does make sense for the sake of referencing that answer later, but in many cases that answer is the product of the input from several individuals. I would like to be able to decide how much of a bounty goes to different users, or some other mechanism to recognize the contribution of multiple users. Of course I could always upvote their previous answers, but this is really incorrect if their previous answers aren't the complete, final answer I've accepted.  What think you metaSOrs?
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I recently put a bounty on a question regarding the . I did this as the only two answers on that page are not satisfactory and I wish to encourage a tractable answer.  I am concerned that when the bounty period expires, if I do not select an answer for the bounty that it may be awarded automatically to one of these speculative and unsatisfactory answers. How might I prevent that? I could put an answer of my own stating "no satisfactory sources are available" and award the bounty to that, however I feel that there should be a better way.  I stress that I put the bounty on the question specifically because the current answers are not satisfactory and I do not want to award them.
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Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:     Reward existing answer      One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.   Why not enable one to reward excellent questions in a similar manner?
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To celebrate the , I was just preparing for a shopping spree - for example, I need a good YAML parser for a project I'm working on, and thought I'd add a bounty to  to find out whether anything new has come up since then - only to discover that after starting my first bounty, I can't start any more! Then I saw that the new small print has this to say:  Users may only have one active question bounty at any given time.  This is new, isn't it? It didn't use to be this way. Why is this? Is there a good reason for it? I'm disappointed about this. It imposes an arbitrary and unnecessary limitation and takes away a good bit of my initial enthusiasm for what I thought is now a really great system. Can this please be lifted or at least increased to three or five?  Update: @ccomet and @Jon Seigel make some good points about how an unlimited number of bounties would favour high rep users. While I don't fully agree, I can see their point. I still feel at least three simultaneous bounties would be a fair level. Alternatively, apply the limit on bounties for other people's questions only - that would solve the problem of high-rep users setting the agenda, while everybody can continue to put bounties on their own questions as they like.