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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I think this is a very recent design change, because I've not seen it before:    Where before a small box with the bounty value dislocated the title a couple of characters to the right, now the additional text saying how long until it expires dislocates the title by about a quarter of the width of the column.  I find that this makes it much harder to read the title, and is counterproductive to the goal of attracting attention.
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What is the syntax to use for searching the text of the questions that I've posted? i.e. Limit the search to just the questions that I've asked and just the Title/Subject/Question part of it....
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For years, people have been able to spend their hard-earned imaginary Internet points to add "bounties" to questions in order to attract more attention to them. (Because, really, "attention" is the only thing that you can be reasonably sure a bounty will give you.)  But does this extra attention translate into better results?  Granted, any individual question may not be really answerable or is still boring even with the extra carrot. And a question might be so interesting that it would have gotten a ton of (good) answers even without the bounty.  Do questions that have bounties get more/better answers&mdash;in aggregate&mdash;than questions that never had a bounty? Does this vary by site? If so, do bounties seem more effective at a certain site "size"?  Or is it really just a wash, and that all anyone ever gets for their bounty is extra attention?
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I am suggesting dramatically lowering the custom text characters allowed in any bounty from 3000 to the length of a comment (600). The reasons for this is as follows:  There are no  in bounty texts  There is only  available  That many characters in a single paragraph is completely TL;DR  Allowing 3000 characters is a strong suggestion you can use more complicated formatting which makes even short (with respect to the character limit) bounty texts    Probably 100x (or more) easier to implement this than adding full markdown to bounty text   Note that this entire post is barely 1/3 the allowed character limit.
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Not long ago I noticed a blessed change that is obfuscating question title and body when it's deleted after getting valid spam flags.  Question title becomes:     This question was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown   And body:     This question was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown - you can see the revision history for details.   Great, however I saw now that the page title itself still showing the nasty spam:        Can my innocent soul be saved from seeing such horrible things, please?
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Look at this . The title and question body are the same. I think this is not a good practice. Is it possible to create a mechanism to force a user to give a brief description which is different from the title?
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Meanwhile, in August 2009  as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And  is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit [status-declined] would be fine.    What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?  This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like "Thanks") without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.  Why?  As, , there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some "poor man's private messaging system". I try to refrain from things like "Thank you", but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then  to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like "Thanks, fixed it").  Like :    (I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)
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is a bit of an odd case.  The user placed a bounty on it, then engaged in a rollback war culminating with a lock. He then requested his account to be deleted. It was. The question, which was at -1 at the time, was automatically deleted along with the account. This should not happen since bounty questions ordinarily can be neither closed nor deleted.  Now the bounty languishes in a limbo state, its clock ticking away in futility, hoping against desperate hope that someone somewhere will rescue it. But no one hears its cries.    Cheer? No, I'm afraid not.
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So we have lots of questions that are titled like this:  Specifically, questions that have one of their tags in front of their title. Thankfully, these silly users usually use a hyphen or a colon afterwards, which makes it really easy to . Can we clear up this clutter?  Perhaps with a filter that strips off the excess when posting? EDIT: As an added bonus, see  for another style of question title that bugs the heck out of me.
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I just reached 10k on SO yesterday. Today, when I was going to inspect a spam question, I saw this:    I expected that it should be hidden, presenting me with a link to the revision history, but it wasn't. I'm not a diamond mod, so that's too explicit to show me the content directly.  I switched to desktop view, and saw the question hidden as expected:    However, spam and rude/abusive answers are properly hidden on mobile web:    Related:   This well indicates that a similar issue occurred when masking was first done for answers. Masking for questions wasn't implemented on the full site until later, so it appears to be a very similar case. Also, it's  if you search for [mobile-web] [spam].
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(currently deleted (visible only to 10kers)) is a great example of a duplicate question that should not be deleted. [Note: this question was later merged into , which resulted in the original being hard-deleted. This issue with merging  ] The titles of the duplicates are completely different.  Having duplicates around greatly aids search hits on the site. We need to keep questions like this around for the benefit of the community. Both questions have around 4K views.  They are both relevant.  I cannot believe that a question with over 3K views is being deleted. Edit Search for python continue line and python line break in google.  Both answers are top hits.  They should both be open.
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As we know, a question with an attached bounty will most of the time get a visibility boost, mainly for two reasons:   Users will be attracted by the potential reputation gain and will check the question to see if they are able to provide an answer, Questions with an active bounty get their own tab - so anyone can quickly access them and see what is available at the moment   But is this "all"? Let me explain a little better. Here on Meta Stack Exchange, we get a ton of  and  questions, and it is not rare at all for those questions to not get an official staff answer (especially for feature requests). Often, someone offer a bounty on one of those questions to increase its visibility.  This made me wonder. I admit that I almost ignore the "featured question" tab here on this site, because I know that some questions may only get an actual answer from a staff member. Thinking about this, I was asking myself if giving a bounty has any other effect on top of getting a question "featured". For example, do bounties have any weight on the likelihood of a question to get in the "hot network questions" list? Is there some other hidden feature that will make the question more visible?  PS: notice - I am not suggesting any change in the current way bounties work, I just want to know if there is something I am missing to see in the current rules.
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It happens often for me that, after submitting the answer, I look at the "Related" list on the sidebar and see questions that talk about the same question but have a title that's largely difference in words, although very close in meaning.  I know there's a "Similar Questions" list that appears while writing question body, but that's also based on text-processing, which seems to be the problem.  I suggest that, after the user adds the tags, a new "Questions that may already have your answer" list loads right above the "Post Your Question" button, and it depends not only the title and boy text, but also on tag association.  Hopefully it would be not very hard to implement, and would make users life easier.
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Questions in titles need to be repeated, why?  To me this pattern seems ridiculous. But I frequently encounter the "not a real question" situation, when I put my question in the title, then the context for that specific question in the 'question body'.     So:  I am to take it that the title is almost completely irrelevant for establishing subsequent question body is asking? I choose my titles to expose the actual question so it need not be repeated below. If questions need to be repeated in the body, could we simply title it "A question, click here and read below" ?   Tagged bug, as I have found this "problem" to be quite reproducible.  Steps to reproduce:   Ask a question with the clear, simple question in the title, and the evidence/context/example in the question body. Await close votes.
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I asked a question a couple of days ago. I didn't receive any answers to the question, save for a few comments.  Once the bounty period was up I placed a bounty on the question as the concern at the time was rather urgent.  I got some answers to question eventually -- as I had expected. But requirements have changed since then and the content of the question has no longer become relevant.  What can or should I do with this question? Should I award the bounty anyway, regardless of whether the question still has it's relevance?
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I was looking for a possible duplicated question about  in , then looked using the Big G! since the integrated search didn't give me any useful result (laugs) then I found the , but in Stackoverflow! Then, I proceed to flag as off-topic, but since "It's too old to migrate" I don't have the option to do so...  So, my question is, should I leave it like that? Or the question is better in UL (also on topic, just read the question)? Any guidance to this young pada-wan is greatly appreciated.
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I put up  over on SO with the assumption that the text would be formatted like it is for a question or answer.  I'm not really sure if I was incorrect in my assumption, or if I just formatted my text improperly, as I can't go back and edit what I put in.  Am I missing an obvious feature?  If not, would it be reasonable to request bounty-text edits—perhaps with moderator-approval to prevent abuse?  Edit: I was trying to use markdown to produce an unordered list as part of my bounty.  What you see in the link is a blob of text with dashes separating phrases