12:44 PM
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Do(es)n’t said user(s) simply exploit the loophole once detected by @MattF. (newly created accounts can spend the association bonus on bounties), and wouldn’t that part be solved by following his then-suggestion (make the “set bounties” privilege higher than 101)?
As far as I can tell, none of the accounts got an association bonus in the first place. Note that you only get an association bonus if (1) the account you are creating is registered, (2) you already have an account on another site in the SE network, and (3) you have at least 200 reputation on that other site. In contrast, many of the accounts in question are unregistered, and those that are registered are only on MO. — Emil Jeřábek 3 hours ago
@EmilJeřábek Okay, so it’s not just that loophole. (How then do those brand new accounts have the points to set bounties? Hard to tell once they are closed.) Still, wouldn’t it help to raise the “set bounties” privilege threshold? — Francois Ziegler 3 hours ago
The new incarnation of Asura Path got an association bonus both here (which they spent almost immediately on a bounty) and on math.stackexchange, although I can't see why they qualified on either site. — Jeremy Rickard 2 hours ago
1:07 PM
Here is a query I have tried to create: data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/revision/1063963/1315036/…
Or we can take similar query for existing users as a test. For Todd Trimble - who has reputation 44204 - the query returns 44278.
The post 331865 had bounties from now deleted users 138661 and 141715 mathoverflow.net/posts/331865/revisions
The user 138661 earned rather nontrivial reputation on MO, around 1000 reputation points: reputation, questions, answers.
I did not find anything about the user 141715 - perhaps after the next data dump: data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/revision/1063963/1315036/… data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/942474/… data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/942474/…
BTW I see bounties from user with id 140765 on questions 331860 331917, 332839 and 330689. — Martin Sleziak Jun 4 at 16:14
User 140765 also earned some non-trivial reputation on MO: Google Cache shows 317, SEDE query returns 377; here are also questions ...
Also the second incarnation of “phd” got an association bonus and spent it almost immediately on a bounty, despite apparently being a member of no other SE site to qualify for the bonus. — Jeremy Rickard 17 mins ago
1:45 PM
I'll add this query - in case it might be useful in this context: Bounties by users who are now deleted
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2:46 PM
BTW this might be related to the way to hide other communities - so that we see only that the user got association bonus, but we do not see other communities: How do I hide my accounts on a specific Stack Exchange site?
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