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Yesterday I received an information per mail for a question holding an open bounty:
When the bounty ended, there were 2 answers to the question:
Both were not truly satisfying answers, so I had not accepted one of them. According to the description, I expected one of them to be bountied. But that has not happened, and now the "Accept" button is gone, either. Question: Is this a bug in the SX software or an exptected behaviour - possibly related to the fact that the top-voted answer comes from the question-holder himself and one does not want to support "self-bounties"? Or is there a trace of randomness specified in the term "the top-rated answer may be auto-accepted"? Note: This is no deal w.r.t. to the points, at all, it's just comes as a surprise... |
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From meta.stackexchange.com : For an answer to be automatically accepted for a bounty award, it has to meet the following conditions: Since no answer had at least +2 votes, no bounty was awarded. Thanks for the clarification. In addition, the linked page points out that after the bounty period has expired, no more answer can be accepted. So this is behaviour by design:) 1
Behavior by design... by The Committee For Overthinking Features :) |