Questions tagged [bounty]
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What happened with this answer (downvoted, mod-edited/improved, bountied (reward existing answer) and then mod-deleted?
This answer to "Alternative small mass payload transportation from the moon to L5 besides rail gun and mass driver?" was initially substantially down voted, probably in part because it was ...
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Why I can't award bounty points?
I got a great answer for this question
Number of China orbital launches by year
Then I put a bounty and chose "Reward existing answer"
But I cant give the points to that user, why is that?
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Where is the auto award for bounties for Space.SE?
I have lost around 800 reputation over time on Space.SE in lost bounties because I missed the dead-line to award it. I think the bulk of it may have been lost during a suspension, does that effect ...
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Can bigger bounties have longer expiration dates?
Is it possible to refine bounties to have longer expiration dates? What would be the down side? Is this something that can be changed just for SE.SE? It would encourage more bounties.
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Will/would it be impossible for me to add a third bounty here? Why was 500 my only choice for #2?
I've seen some behavior from the bounty system that I did not expect, though it couldn't be called official unexpected behavior. One example is this question. I've been working on it for about 3 ...
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How does the bounty auto-award work?
This just happened here. What are the precise rules with which the auto-awarding algorithm operates?
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