One of the less well know features of the SAR Knoweldge site are question bounties so I thought I’d give you a little background on waht a bounty is.

A bounty gives you the chance to invest a little bit more in a question to try and get it answered sooner, or if you are answering a question it gives you a chance to earn a little bit more reputation for answering a question that one user would like answered quickly.

You can see if a question has a bounty by the little blue box with white writing showing how much extra reputation answering the question is worth next to the title of the question. If you become the accepted answer for a question, you will normally get the bounty as long as you answer within 10 days of the bounty being posted. It’s all fairly simple and a great way of quickly earning extra reputation.

If you have a question that is not being answered, you can easily add a bounty to the question just by clicking the button on the individual questions page. The problem with doing this is that you have to donate some of your reputation to the bounty. The system then doubles the reputation that you donated to make answering the question that little bit sweeter.

If you want to see questions that have an open bounty, just click on the featured tab. Answering a featured question is a great way to boost your repution if you are looking for a bit more.

Before signing off I’d just like to say, if you haven’t had a chance to take a look at Deb Lauman’s project to write a book about the Himalaya Dog Rescue Squad in Nepal, please go an have a look. It is an amazing project that is worthy of plenty of support from the worldwide SAR community. Please donate to her Kickstarter project because there are only 20 days left.