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List of bounties with no deadline
50+ rep whenever you outgolf xnor
I've reached 100K and it's time to gift it back! I offer +50 rep to any new answer that outgolfs one of mine.
Answers to outgolf
Rules
Submit an answer that's ...
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Offering a bounty in exchange for upvotes
This is not allowed. I've removed the offer.
Stack Exchange works by ensuring that the best information rises to the top. Thus, the motivation for upvoting a post needs to be anchored in the merits ...
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Fitting but Unsuitable Languages(no longer active)
There are some challenges for which we all want to see answers in a certain language, even if the solution is very difficult. I'll award 500 points ...
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1000 – 2000 rep for figuring out how to program with both halves of a Stack Cats program
This bounty needs a bit of background, so bear with me.
Stack Cats is an esolang with fairly strong ...
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Disclaimer: This bounty was posted by a person whose job is to promote APL.
50 – 500 rep for an APL answer
I will reward 50 rep if all of the following conditions are met:
The answer is in Dyalog APL ...
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1000 Rep for a meta answer that solves the popularity problem
Popularity contests have been discussed many times, always with much conflict over what counts as a pop con, whether they should be on ...
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100-200 rep for good answers in interesting new languages
This is a bit subjective of course, but here are my criteria:
The language is fairly new, and is interesting (in my opinion)
The answer is ...
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300 rep for Vyxal answers
I'm basing this off the Japt bounty, so some of the wording is going to be the same
Vyxal. It's one of the golfing languages ever made, and I think you'll like it. In fact, I ...
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500 to 2000 rep for a quine in Hexagony
There are two ways to write a quine in Hexagony (which will probably result in very different solutions). The former is clearly the golfier version but the ...
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100-500 rep for answers to good, old questions with few answers
Please note: I'm nearly out of rep and can't award anyone anymore. If someone else can continue the bounty, that'd be really great.
This ...
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200 rep each for answering good unanswered questions
I don't like seeing good questions go unanswered, so I'm offering 200 rep each for valid answers to unanswered non-tips non-koth non-cops-and-...
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Proper Bounty Usage
Bounties are about two things
Rewarding excellent answers, and
incentivizing users to answer a specific challenge, or even a sub challenge, e.g, the shortest bf answer gets a bounty, outgolf this ...
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Is awarding 1500 reputation to a specific user inappropriate use of bounties?
In general: no
You can only award reputation as bounties if you've already earned that reputation, and you are free to award as much of it as you like to as many posts as you like. If several posts ...
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Why is the no deadline bounties post not featured?
No it shouldn't be featured. There's only so much space in the sidebar. I think 4 or maybe 5 questions is the maximum. Occasionally one of them is a blog post and/or a feature post on Meta.SE. Then ...
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I created a bounty to award an answer that was deleted; what now?
I can see three options here.
Wait and hope @DestructibleLemon fixes their answer. They still have 5 days to do so.
Award the bounty to another answer that fulfills the criteria. @Riley's seems to be ...
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Absurd thematic challenges
These can only be claimed once each, first come first serve. I will answer any clarifying questions for any challenge given below if needed.
500 rep for answering Non-...
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100-200 rep for your first 5 Pip answers
My language Pip has finally reached version 1.0! To celebrate, I will award 100 rep to anyone who:
Is not a "👋︎ New contributor"
Has posted fewer ...
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500-1000 rep for further work on (-a) × (-a) = a × a (no longer active?)
This now classic atomic-code-golf question has 3 answers at score 18. Is 17 possible?
500 rep will be awarded for an ...
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50-500 rep for answers to Bubbler's challenges in any of previous LotM languages
LotM languages often go inactive again after the event ends, so here is an attempt to keep them alive (or revive?).
I (...
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250 or 500 rep for showing off some skillz on code.golf
code.golf is a competitive code golf site, where all solutions are hidden and users compete for a better solution for each task in each language ...
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100-500 rep for APL answers to Bubbler's challenges
To celebrate me (Bubbler) reaching 25k rep (with over 100 answers in APL, 50 challenges written, and several thousands of rep gained from Adám's APL ...
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Improving Bounty Reasons
Get rid of most, keep a couple
I more or less agree with Martin's points in the previous post about this, but with a few thoughts of my own.
"Current answers are outdated. The current answer(s) ...
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500-1000 rep for outscoring in Multiply with restricted operations
The current best score is 22 operations.
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50-300 rep for answers to unanswered questions
Similar to this offering, I will offer varying amounts of reputation for answers to questions that meet the following criteria:
The question is ...
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100-500 rep for solving challenges using an ACE exploit in an esoteric language
I've reached 2300 rep, so here's a bounty for you RE/CTF enthusiasts for an answer I really want to see.
CVE-2018-6849: ...
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50-500 rep for answering in my languages
I've (currently) published 21 languages, all of which can be found here and 16 of which are on Try it online!
I'm offering 50 rep to any answer that meets the ...
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Does (Should) instituting a bounty count as earning negative rep for the daily rep limit
You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation from upvotes per day. This limit is not affected by either placing or earning bounties.
For the scenario you describe in your question, the final reputation ...
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500-2000 reputation for a golfy language
This bounty will be awarded to a new golfing language (more precisely, to an answer in that language by its author to Showcase of Languages) that
Bests all ...
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500 rep - Bubblegum Factorial
Bubblegum is designed for constant output - unless the code has a specific SHA-hash, you won't be able to write a program which takes input.
So, I will award 500 rep ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible