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What is a grace period for a bounty?

The feature was proposed on Meta.SO to allow users to manually award the bounty after the bounty has expired. … There's also a blog post on that topic: To assist forgetful bounty owners, there is a new 24 hour grace period at the end of every bounty. …
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Can I award a bounty on an already-accepted answer?

You need to wait 2 days or so for the bounty option to become available. There should be a tiny message below your question stating when this option will be available. … As the bounty is offered quite publicly, you should add a comment to your question stating that it's not about attracting additional answers, but to reward the user that posted the answer already. …
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Bounties for Meta topics

What is reputation on the main site? You could say it's a representation of your technical skills and knowledge and how well you put it into answers. In that case, the read-only reputation on the cor …
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Proposal: Sponsoring some Community FAQs and Canonical Answers

Some users answer bounty questions with rather poor answers apparently just to get a shot at the bounty if no one else posts a better answer. …
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Proposal: Sponsoring some Community FAQs and Canonical Answers

OTOH, if we were to make this completely decoupled from the sponsors, we'd need some way to judge the "best" answer: Just letting the system decide will be wasteful, as only half the bounty would be awarded …
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