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Why are the bounties irreversibly spent?
Technically, a bounty may be reversed or cancelled, if it can be justified...
However, the bounty systems acts like an advertisement in the real world. You pay for something to entice visitors/...
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Why are the bounties irreversibly spent?
Well, regarding point 1, if you post the bounty on your own question, then, if it is upvoted a lot, you will get a good chunk of rep from that which might well pay back some of the bounty. For example,...
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Why are the bounties irreversibly spent?
They don't want to have the pranks related to putting the bounty and after having the interest pulling it back.
Rep points don't mean anyth.... anyways, that's why.
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How to reject a bounty?
No. Bounties are there to give questions additional exposure and are removed from the 'donors' reputation at the point they are set up. Even if the question involved does not gain any answers as a ...
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Placing more bounties than you have reputation
The person you are giving as an example has more than 200 reputation on others SE sites, so she or he had a +100 association bonus when coming to TEX S.E. If you add his 17*10 reputations gained for Q&...
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How to select the correct answer and award the bounty
This is one of the privileges of asking a question. It allows you to decide which answer helped you most. Like voting, your decision-making process doesn't have to be disclosed.
My suggestion would ...
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Is it possible/advisable to request someone to place a bounty on my question?
Asking is free, so you can definitely inquire. Either comment on your own question (requires no reputation if you're the owner), start up a conversation in chat (requires 20 reputation) or comment on ...
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Bounty for bad answer
The unfortunate thing about bounties are that they are irreversible. Once issued, it's an immediate withdrawal from your reputation bank. At best, the bounty adds more attention to your question by ...
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Is it possible/advisable to request someone to place a bounty on my question?
It didn't fit in the comment so pasting it here for the question specifics.
The question is missing a few ingredients. First one is that I don't understand the idea of a cross section of a line. It ...
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When is awarding bounties considered a misuse of the system?
Bounties are great! Showing appreciation to posts by bounties is great!
There are possible ways of bounty fraud, such as
shifting reputation to another account by bounties a lot
circular bounties (...
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Bounty for bad answer
For example, you can start a dialogue to make the answer more substantive, consistent and coherent.
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