Why are is there a 3 by featured when only 2 questions have bounties?

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It's a pretty obvious bug. If you click on the complete list link it shows only two also.

probably caching, SE caches everything and occasionally this leads to such discrepancies. — Mad Scientist, Commented Jan 6, 2014 at 16:31

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:29:45Z

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It seems that questions with bounties that are highly downvoted won't be displayed on the featured tab, but will still affect the count.

However, that doesn't fully explain the problem, given this:

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answered Jan 6, 2014 at 19:20

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Sklivvz · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-06 22:51:48Z

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Caching? Hidden tags?

Works on my machine™

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answered Jan 6, 2014 at 22:51

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