Timeline for Why is there a Bounty option for an Answered Question
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| Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 | comment | added | John C | Good point @Sathya, I hadn't seen them used that way before. | |
| Dec 1, 2012 at 4:49 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | anyone can start a bounty on an existing question and manually reward a bounty on any answer, even if it was posted prior to the bounty period. We do this on Super User few times. The mechanism John talks about is the auto-bounty allocation. /cc @JacobJanTuinstra | |
| Dec 1, 2012 at 1:44 | comment | added | John C | @Sathya only if the answer is marked accepted in the bounty period, being upvoted doesn't count for existing answers. @ Jacob The system has been in place over 2 years, it would likely have been changed if it didn't work. Typically questions with a bounty will attract new answers from bounty hunters, albeit with some who just spam them in the hope they win. | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 20:11 | comment | added | Jacob Jan | Has this been a proven concept? Will it not diminish the effect of the bounty itself? | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 5:51 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | yet another reason is to reward the existing answer(s) | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 5:34 | vote | accept | Jacob Jan | ||
| Nov 30, 2012 at 0:45 | history | answered | John C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |