-1 I strongly disagree with the unilateral decision to close the question, and I think a more appropriate measure would be a historical lock. Thanks for the refund.

@karlphillip A historical lock? How would that be any preferable? The question and answers can still be voted, and you and the answerers can still earn badges...

I thought it needed more attention because I wasn't satisfied with the answers I got. At least not until a few days ago, when someone answered this.

A historical lock preserves older content that was very popular when it was originally posted, but is now off-topic or otherwise out of scope for the site it is posted on. Historically locking a post ends the debate over whether a question should be kept on the site or deleted, and is often the final state of a question that has been deleted and undeleted more than once. @Yannis I guess the question is: why should we forbid the answers from getting voted?

@karlphillip The question is not off topic, and not even close to being a candidate for deletion. It was closed as not constructive, and it can still be re-opened, if improved. The historical lock is completely irrelevant here, if at some point the question attracts delete votes, then we can discuss about the lock. Furthermore if you weren't satisfied with the answers, why were you awarding the bounties?

Primary reason: get a better answer, secondary reason: get more upvotes. Since I just selected another answer as the official, maybe we could award the user the 100 rep bounty I offered. Do you think it's doable?

@karlphillip First you ask for the bounty to be refunded, now you want it set again?

I apologize, I asked that before remembering that was actually one very good answer (in my opinion) written 5 days ago. Even though I'm a rep maniac, I think awarding the bounty to that user it's the right thing to do.

My suggestion of the historical lock remains the same, even more now that you stated that the question is not off topic. We agree that it's not a good fit/model for other Programmers questions, but it's not off-topic. So it makes sense that the users continue to enjoy badges for their answers.

@karlphillip What badges? Locking the question means that people can't vote on it or it's answers any more, and that it won't show on site searches, you'll be able to see it only if you have the direct url to it. Are you sure that's what you want? Locking is an alternative to deleting, not closing. The only thing that changed now that it's closed, is that there can't be any more answers, nothing else. If it wasn't already CW, you'd still gain / lose rep on it.

Right after I publish the last comment I noticed my mistake, I guess you read that before I was able to edit it. My concearn about the Closed status is, while the users will get rep from upvotes, the question is susceptible to being deleted.

It's not a particularly good question to the site format, but it has good content.

Anyway, I understand your move, and I appreciate your time.

I'll let you handle more interesting things now :)

Thanks.

@karlphillip Not really, at least I don't think any of the moderators will delete it. If it gets any delete votes we can discuss locking, even if it gets deleted we can undelete and lock. It would be a shame to not show up in searches though, just because there's a possibility it might get deleted at some point.

Indeed.

I will consider to improve the question, though.

@karlphillip I think it run it's circle and you'd better spent your time and energy on asking other questions or even better answering... but it's your time and energy ;)

Is it possible to award 100 of my rep to the user that has the official answer?

@karlphillip I'd prefer not to re-open and then close again just for that.

Ok,

I understand.

@karlphillip However nothing stopping you from finding a good answer of his on another question and awarding the bounty there

Interesting idea, we'll see.

@karlphillip Last thing: Setting a lot of bounties on the same question raises a few red flags: People have been known to do it to feed reputation to sock puppet accounts. Not the case here, as your bounties went to actual people, but for future reference a couple of bounties are enough. You got one flag from someone that got suspicious...

hahah, thanks for the advice.

feeding reputation to sock puppet accounts it's a new concept for me.

Got to go, bye. ;)