Timeline for A Proposal for a Change to the Bounty Rules
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| Sep 22, 2022 at 21:31 | history | edited | V2BlastStaff |
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| Sep 14, 2022 at 10:46 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus | ...You state that "Sometimes people ask very specific questions where most viewers don't feel like they have the knowledge to upvote an answer". These cases might occur, but in the given example I believe that it is not the case. Or at least, it is not so much a lack of 'knowledge' and more a lack of 'clarity'. This is a problem throughout the entire technical/scientific community and spreading your 'ideas' is difficult when they are not presented clearly. Possibly the answer might have some good content, but it is difficult to see it. | |
| Sep 14, 2022 at 10:43 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus | The particular example that you are referring to is interesting. I do not understand the question very well and also another person has been asking for more explanation and detail in the comments. It is actually a question that should be closed because it is unclear. Or at least to some people it is unclear. When someone attempts to answer such a problematic unclear question, then it is also important to be be very clear in the answer. Otherwise you get a low number of up-votes... | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 8:02 | comment | added | Scortchi Mod | "Sometimes people ask very specific questions where most viewers don't feel like they have the knowledge to upvote an answer" - important then to make sure the question's appropriately tagged, to increase the odds that the right people see it, & any answers. (Your example doesn't seem to have much to do with reinforcement learning or Bayesian optimization, for instance.) | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 17:19 | vote | accept | R Carnell | ||
| Sep 8, 2022 at 20:06 | answer | added | Sextus Empiricus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 6, 2022 at 12:02 | comment | added | mkt | Side note: apparently the 3-vote closure threshold does not apply to Meta. Interesting! | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 18:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 5, 2022 at 17:44 | comment | added | R Carnell | I’m voting to close this question because I would like to re-post it on the top level stack exchange meta where the proposal could be acted upon. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 16:43 | comment | added | whuber Mod | That's an interesting idea. This unfortunately is one of the system-wide settings that we have no control over, so you have to bring it up on Meta SE as mdewey suggests. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | R Carnell | @whuber I agree with that disadvantage. That might call for a different proposal which would be to start a new review queue for "Unawarded bounties where a post was correctly submitted during the bounty period". We could have users decide if a bounty should have reasonably been awarded. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 16:15 | history | edited | R Carnell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2022 at 16:13 | comment | added | R Carnell | Thanks for the suggestion @mdewey , I did a search and will add related questions to the post. There are no similar proposals I could find. It would be good to hear from the moderators if this rule is set at the top level, or if the various communities have the ability to set community specific rules. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 16:10 | comment | added | whuber Mod | There are some disadvantages. One is that a post with no upvotes and no acceptance is a suspect post. Possibly it's even accompanied by comments pointing out its errors. The system has no way to read, understand, and react to such comments. Awarding a bounty would send a misleading signal to future readers. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 14:52 | comment | added | mdewey | I suspect any change might need to be system-wide in which case you need to ask on Meta Stack Exchange. You might want to do a search there first. | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 14:33 | history | asked | R Carnell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |