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Stephen Kitt

8:06 AM

@JeffSchaller yup, I am curious — is it worth my undeleting my Meta Q so you can write a proper A?

Faheem Mitha

9:06 AM

I just got another upvote for the question corresponding to

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A: RAIDing with LVM vs MDRAID - pros and cons?

How mature and featureful is LVM RAID? LVM-RAID is actually mdraid under the covers. It basically works by creating two logical volumes per RAID device (one for data, called "rimage"; one for metadata, called "rmeta"). It then passes those off to the existing mdraid drivers. So things like handl...

We need to bribe Anthony to come back here, to update this answer, and of course, hang out here.

I don't suppose there is a way to offer a bounty for a question update?

Stephen Kitt

11:55 AM

@FaheemMitha yes, there is, there’s even a specific reason: “Current answers are outdated”

Faheem Mitha

@StephenKitt Oh. So the bounty would be for a new updated answer, or for updates to an existing answer?

Stephen Kitt

Bounty Reasons and Post Notices

Jeff Atwood on September 23, 2011

It’s been a little over a year since our last improvement to the bounty system. Question bounties have been working well enough that we’re comfortable encouraging even more use of the bounty system. We used to limit people to one question bounty at a time, but now you can have up to three simultaneous question…

Faheem Mitha

And could someone updating his current answer (e.g. Anthony) get the bounty?

@StephenKitt Thank you.

Stephen Kitt

@FaheemMitha which post gets the bounty is up to the bounty provider; but you can’t give a bounty to an editor (if an existing answer is updated by someone else, the answer’s original author would get the bounty)

Faheem Mitha

@StephenKitt I see. Where is that documented?

Stephen Kitt

12:04 PM

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Q: Awarding a bounty to an editor

Bounties are always awarded to the original author of an answer. Occasionally, it would be nice to be able to award a bounty to someone who contributed an important part of the puzzle. An example I have in mind is a “reference” question, typically community wiki, on a common topic, where the goa...

Faheem Mitha

So, in meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/158763 the following appears:

> How does Community Wiki mode affect bounties?
Bounties are not affected by community wiki mode. When you award a bounty to an answer marked community wiki, the reputation bonus will be awarded to the user who posted the original revision of the answer.

That's the closest I've found to an official statement on the subject.

@StephenKitt That's an assertion, which is presumably not official. Though in SE it's often unclear what's "official" and what isn't.

Gilles wrote:

> Bounties are always awarded to the original author of an answer.

Stephen Kitt

@FaheemMitha yes, it’s not official

Faheem Mitha

Which is nice and clear. But I haven't found such a clear statement in the FAQ or elsewhere.

terdon

@FaheemMitha It could be no other way. Bounties are linked to the post's author, not editors.

Faheem Mitha

12:19 PM

@terdon Does it say that somewhere?

terdon

@FaheemMitha Not that I know of.

But that's how it works.

There is simply no other way: you have one button to click to award the bounty and cannot direct it in any way, so it will always go to the original author.

Which is also the point of Gilles's feature request

Faheem Mitha

@terdon OK.

Stephen Kitt

It’s the same with any reputation. If someone provides a poor answer, and you take the time to edit it and make it great, and it gets a ton of upvotes, the original author will get all the rep.

Faheem Mitha

@StephenKitt I see. But I doubt that happens very often.

terdon

12:43 PM

@FaheemMitha not that rare either

Faheem Mitha

People usually don't like their answers being edited, apart from anything else.

I don't myself.

terdon

Um. Really?

If someone doesn't like their answers edited, then SE isn't the platform for them.

Stephen Kitt