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How to deal with off-topic questions that cannot be closed?
A came across a question which looks off-topic to me. I voted to migrate the question, but got an error message saying:
This question has an open bounty and cannot be closed
How should we deal ...
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Rep is lost even when no answer was received?
Is this how it normally works when a bounty is placed and no answer is received?
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Will my bounty be awarded to an answer from 6 months ago?
The current bounty system is broken.
I ran into the issue listed in this question:
Can MS Certificate Services be a Subordinate to CA created with OpenSSL
The only answer was "you are using the ...
user18668
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Can't accept answer for 'bountied' question on serverfault
I asked this question on serverfault some weeks ago and put a bounty of 50 rep on it (it got published with a bounty of 100 rep attached so I guess the system 'tops up' the bounty amount). When it ...
jpoh
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Answer for Question With Bounty is in Comments
Recently, I added a bounty to the below linked question (asked by me), and in the process, someone correctly answered my question, in the comments, rather than posting it as an actual answer. I would ...
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Minimum bounty is 100 with deleted answer
It seems that a question which i answered myself, and then deleted the answer still appears as "answered by myself" and thus requires a minimal bounty or 100 reputation instead of 50.
I know and ...
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3
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Why is reputation for bounty taken away even if nothing is awarded?
Why is reputation offered up as bounty taken away even if the bounty is never awarded? Even after offering a bounty, I received only one answer to my question. In fact, the "answer" mostly just asked ...
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Cannot Create Bounty - Bug
I wanted to create a second bounty on the following question:
Weird Apache Access Logs
But i cannot.
I already have 75+ reputation and any of the criteria wherein a bounty is not allowed is not ...
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Bounty Option Not Available - Am I missing something?
I have a question that has only had 13 views over 3 days. I was going to give it a bounty to try to increases views on it but there is no option to do so. Do I have to wait longer for this to become ...
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Why can't I offer a bounty for my question?
Hey everyone,
Just wondering why I'm not able to offer a bounty here?
Creating a file server - How can I use a large VHD file in Hyper-V? (700GB)
It's been well past 2 days and I have some ...
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RSS Feed for bounties?
Is there a feed available somewhere that tracks bounties offered? Apologies if this has been discussed and rejected elsewhere.
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Change bounty description
I have just put a bounty on a question Rewrite all *.php to single index.php before php-fpm processes it (apache) - canonical answer required and accidentally negated one sentence. I can't see a way ...
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Bounty an exceptional answer on a closed question
On the question Why does x86 represent 32bit when x64 represents 64bit?, Daniel C. Sobral gave an amazing answer. I'd like to bounty it because I never could find any of the information he shared.
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My bounty was returned - Why?
There was 5 or 6 days left on the bounty for a question of mine, and when I logged back in I noticed I had be awarded the reputation back. In the question, it no longer says a bounty is available. ...
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