Timeline for Why is reputation for bounty taken away even if nothing is awarded?
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| Jul 26, 2010 at 20:41 | comment | added | Mark Henderson | @michael, because you're spending it on a service. If you hire someone to give you advice, you have to pay them, even if you don't like the advice. Except in this case, the bounty system holds it the cost in escrow, and you don't have to pay anyone if you don't want, but you still have to pay the money into the escrow account. Otherwise, I would set a 500-rep bounty on all my questions, get heaps of well thought out answers by users hoping to get paid, then take my bounty back and leave them in the cold. You can still do that, but at least you don't get your money back. (Money being rep, btw) | |
| Jul 26, 2010 at 4:22 | comment | added | Michael Mior | Thanks for the link, but this still doesn't really explain WHY rep offered as bounty is immediately lost. | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 20:01 | history | answered | jscott | CC BY-SA 2.5 |