I want to add another bounty (or increase it) on a question that already has a bounty which is newer than 48 hours.  If this is possible, please explain how?
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I think that some question can start by one person offer bounty let say +50, and some other can offer +50 (total +100).  This way more than one person can share the cost of the bounty and at the same time show the interesting for a better answer.
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I feel like someone made a comment as an answer on a question with a bounty just so they could reap the "auto bounty" since they are the only answer on it.   I've flagged the bad/useless answer (as a non-answer) for moderator review but the bounty will be assigned automatically in less than 24hrs and I feel like this guy/gal is just trying to cheat the system.   All I'm trying to do is ensure the bounty simply expires and the guy/gal that was trying to cheat the system by putting down a useless guess doesn't get it.   I've answered my own question (properly) and marked it as the accepted answer, not sure if that makes a difference though in this person still cheating the system since I'm the OP and created the accepted answer.   Here is the post:
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I've read that bounties on questions move the question to the featured questions. I think this is a complete waste, bounties and featured questions should be made separate. If a bounty is not awarded the system should ask the person who made the bounty if they would like to keep the bounty available indefinitely (or until they run out of the reputation to keep the bounty in place) or not. Paying reputation for the featured questions tab which is not refunded is fine, that truly is taking up a spotlight. I don't care if an important question I have is featured, otherwise I would create a much higher bounty.  The problem is bounty periods do not account for more obscure subjects/topics/languages/etc and even if the s/t/l is not obscure people have a tendency to post generic answers to questions, not testing code if code is involved, etc. In example if I place a bounty on an Apache related question I wouldn't mind having it awarded six months later, it truly takes someone with striking design and development skills to understand very complex questions sometimes. By having the bounty die-off the important question is no longer appears important and the more difficult question has a greatly reduced chance of being answered. A useful answer half a year from now is better than a slim chance of an answer that is even half on-topic.  Bounties should be fully refunded if they should expire.  Featured questions should expire without being refunded to prevent questions from perpetually reappearing in the featured questions list.  Bounties and featured questions should be allowed to coexist though after the featured question period expires the bounty should remain though the question removed from the featured questions list.  Featured questions essentially work better for more popular topics which more people are likely to answer.  Long lasting bounties essentially work better for more obscure topics which will much longer before the right person with the capability to correctly answer the question.
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I start  and when I add a bounty remark I often get it right the first time. Once when a mistake in my message was problematic a moderator was kind enough to take the time to help me by cancelling/refunding it manually, followed by me starting a new one.  in 2012:  How about this:  a (say 5 minute?) short time frame to edit the text, much like comments perhaps during that period a small warning for viewers, explaining the bounty text may still be tweaked  That would allow honest folks to catch perhaps up to 95% of all minor (often formatting) mistakes, without a (big) risk of people investing wasted time to score a bounty while finding out later the bounty requirements changed a lot.  And in 2013, to the question , this  suggests (in part)  I suggest, given that  after it's started, it would be helpful:  If there would be a preview of your bounty text, before posting it; and/or If there would be a link to view the available markdown that's allowed, much like the help for comments.   Question: In 2019, with all the improvements to the site in the intervening years, is it possible to reconsider some way to edit bounty remark within 5 minutes as comments have, or to have some way to correctly preview them? I'm not sure if posting the draft message in an answer post window to preview will display everything correctly. There could potentially be typos or inadvertent formatting characters that display differently between the two, I don't know. I also don't know if there are any bounty-scamming schemes that could be implemented by changing a bounty remark within the first five minutes, the danger seems low but unlike me, some people are clever...  Example of a non-critical formatting problem ; an extra space at the end of the [title ] results in a failed hyperlink display. Everyone can copy/paste it, but a functioning hyperlink would have been better.
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I propose allowing posting new comments on any post I already have comments on, even if I drop below the rep threshold for the comment-privilege (50 rep) later.  And maybe also always allow responding to any ping (editors, dupe-hammer-wielders and mod-closers can be pinged even if they never commented).    Background: I recently made  on a post. Shortly thereafter, I put bounty on another one of my questions, which brought my reputation below 50. Then, when  was posted, I was unable to respond because of the requirement that I have at least 50 reputation to comment.
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Is there any restriction to prevent multiple bounties ( not simultaneously) being awarded to different answers on the same question ?  i.e., on a question  -  I want to set multiple bounties since I've received 2 awesome answers. Can I set award a bounty on answer A first, and then set the bounty and award it to answer B ?
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I somehow think this is a dupe, so sorry if it is.  My search-fu is turning up empty...  Do migrated questions retain bounty history?  For example, say a question has a bounty set on one site before enough people vote it closed and migrate it.  The bounty expires on the one site, then it gets enough close votes to migrate.  Is it no longer possible to accept that answer on the target site since the bounty on the first site expired?  I know this probably doesn't happen that often on SO, but I've seen it a few times on SF.  Mainly when the OP doesn't want the question migrated....
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Seems like this question should have already been asked on Meta, but I could not find it.     is similar, but my question more has to do with requesting an update on a question that is not mine, rather than what to do once it is updated.  My question is how to get an update on an old question. I found  and the question itself (and the updated comment) is outdated and now useless. I would like to ask the question again however I know it will be tagged as duplicate.   How should I go about getting a completely new set of answers for a question like this?
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I got me an email for a bounty that was going to expire in 23 hours, so I went to see if I could award it.  It turns out  has only been answered by myself, so I can't award a bounty.  Which means the email was essentially spam.  (Or if you prefer, one more worthless automated reminder of the type that I train my spam filter to hide from my inbox.) It's bad enough that my bounty will expire worthless—does the system really need to get my hopes up that an answer arrived only to dash them when I actually follow the link in the email?  Could the system add one more check to see if a bounty could be awarded before encouraging users to go out and award it?  For reference, here is the text of the email minus emphatic formatting:  Reminder: Your Bounty Is Ending Soon! Your bounty on the question … Option to disable “share a link to this question” popup? … ends in 23 hours. Don't forget to review the answers and award your bounty by clicking the bounty icon to the left of each answer. If you don't award your bounty, the highest scored answer (with a minimum of 2 score) provided after your bounty started may be automatically awarded half the bounty amount! For more information, refer to the bounty faq. Questions? Comments? Let us know on our feedback site. If you no longer want to receive mail from Meta Stack Overflow, unsubscribe from all Meta Stack Overflow emails with a single click. Stack Exchange Inc. 55 Broadway, 26th Floor, NY NY 10006 &lt;3
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I have put a bounty on , however I don't see it appear in the  (also not when I'm not logged in).  Why is this. Aren't all bounty questions supposed to be visible there?
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So today I chimed in on IPS and scrolled a bit. This question caught my eye, because it had a number in it.     Something like that I haven't seen in a long time, if ever. Then I read the title and was confused at first, because it started with      ends in 4 days How do I...   This is obviously not proper English. It took me some time to realize that the text size isn't even the same, because the difference is very little in my opinion.   Also, I don't see any reason why that text is necessary in the title.    It gives no additional incentive to answer the question It seems like it's part of the question title It's already obvious that the question has a bounty The time until a bounty runs out is already visible inside a question   This update looks better or worse depending on the site style, but overall I think that it's not something that is needed and has more drawback than it adds.  So I am wondering why this text has been added in the first place and if it can be removed again? Perhaps a per-site solution is possible. I am open to discussion about it (mostly interested in what that text adds to the user experience).
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Have you ever gotten an answer soooo good, you wished you could give a +20 instead of +1 ?  Bounty System  That's a good mechanism, but they're not always right for this situation:   Bounties are usually associated with giving incentive to answer or draw traffic. I would expect that most users offered bounties before getting an answer, not after. Bounties are usually offered by people with plenty of reputation. "New" users should be able to reward exceptional answers too.   Thanking in a comment  A warm comment on the answer is always nice, but I'm not sure comments are intended for saying thanks - but to clarify / improve the answer itself.  So what is the recommended way to reward this truly exceptional answer?  Other suggestions?  I know there is an answer of the week blog, is there a way to nominate an answer to be there? Sometimes exceptional answers are hidden in low-interest questions that receive less traffic - so those will never be upvoted enough to become noticed.  Or maybe instead of a single blog for the entirety of SO, there should be an entire section called "Answer of the week" with more than one answer (maybe on a per-tag basis). Answers should arrive there based on manual nominations and not on upvotes so unpopular questions will not be discriminated against.  Clarification:  It's not that I'm personally against bounties - I use them plenty of times. I'm mostly concerned about what other people tend to do. I suspect the bounty post-answer reward is not used as much as it should. I believe the majority of people don't consider bounties for this purpose.
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The "featured" tab currently lists questions with open bounties, sorted by the time left until the bounty expires.  Could we also add the ability to sort by largest bounty?  Sometimes I'm looking for best bang for my buck, and there are so many open bounties on SO that it fills more than one page.
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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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I have  with a bounty that will expire in a few days. It looks like nobody will get the bounty; only one answer was posted during the bounty period, and it has no upvotes.  In cases like this, the bounty is thrown away.  Why isn't it refunded instead, if no answerer has earned it?
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Noticed this many times but was too lazy to post.  So I see a message in my inbox that bounty is completed and now in grace period, however its title says that "bounty expiring soon"    Wonderful (not wonderful of course). I click it, and... guess what?    Ok. So 49 mins left. But the main problem is that time traveling is . (if it is not, please forbid it).
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I'm not sure if this is possible architecturally, but when judging whether to set a bounty and how much it should be, it would be nice to see the impact based on our previous questions. If you're not visiting the site throughout the day, there is no way to tell how effective that bounty might be--particularly for increasing traffic. There is a similar question with adding and removing tags that increase the visibility in the right places, and the effect on views that may have.