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Bounties and deletion feature abuse [duplicate]

I have a potential exploit for the association bonus awarded and the bounty system. Primarily, it deals with reputation-inflation. Initiation and motivation: Most of us at least have 200 reputation ...
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Are bounties given by deleted users maintained or deleted?

Indeed, there is a difference in the answers of the two moderators Grace Note and Nick Craver. I quote Grace Note in her comment on an answer to Bounties from deleted accounts should still be awarded;...
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Why was this bounty vote deleted?

Someone awarded a bounty to me on this answer and then deleted their account. Normally, I would still keep the bounty reputation, and it would be attributed to the Community user. However, in this ...
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Bounties and pending delete users

Sometimes users instead of "I quit and I'm taking my ball" do a "I quit and here are all my balls" by awarding bounties. The steps behavior of the bounty system in this case doesn't appear to be well ...
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Will bounty rolled back if user removed or suspended?

Suppose If user gives bounty for another user's question then user is removed or is suspended for some period then will given bounty rolled back from that user's account? If user suspended for some ...
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Is it appropriate for a user trying to delete an account to dump all their rep via bounties?

I just noticed new activity on a faq post, and it turns out to be a bounty. Which tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network? The specific user offering the bounty has ...
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I am broken: post-undelete bounty issues

Related: I am broken: post-undelete reputation issues It appears that as a result of the account undeletion process, the bounties that I have handed out and been awarded are not correctly applied ...
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Bounty by deleted account is not showing correctly [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Bounty notices are attributed to no one when the owner is deleted This question had a bounty put on it by a now deleted user, but the text just says: Notice added Current ...
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Bounty notice for bounty offered by deleted/banned user has blank username

Looking at this question, a bounty was offered by a user apparently no longer active on the site. The bounty notification is now displaying incorrectly. This should be changed to have something in ...
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Bounty notices are attributed to no one when the owner is deleted

In some cases where a user offers a bounty and then is deleted, it seems Community becomes the owner of the bounty. If the bounty was started with a bounty notice, the revision history no longer has ...
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Destroying a user can leave a bounty open on a deleted question

This question is a bit of an odd case. The user placed a bounty on it, then engaged in a rollback war culminating with a lock. He then requested his account to be deleted. It was. The question, which ...
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What happens to bounties awarded _to_ deleted users?

I just learned that bounties from deleted accounts are eliminated from history, with the argumentation that the awarded rep was gained by that user and not by the awarded one. But what about the other ...
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