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Why can't I add a bounty to this question?

You can only have one bounty active at a time. It currently seems you have a bounty live on this question. Once that bounty has been awarded or expires, you will be able to activate another one. … References you might find useful: The FAQ's bounty section. Meta.SO's FAQ question for How does the bounty system work?. …
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Why was bounty not awarded?

the bounty was started by the question owner the question owner accepts an answer during the bounty period the bounty award period expires without an explicit award ... then we assume the question … owner liked your answer when they accepted it, and it gets the full amount of the bounty at time of bounty expiration. …
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Change to the bounty system

edit: due to a lot of whining valued community feedback on this issue, I decided it can't hurt to extend the auto-award period 24 hours past the true end of the bounty. … So, the question will stop being a bounty question at the original scheduled time but the auto-accept calculations will always occur 24 hours after that. …
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Will awarding bounties remove privileges?

If your rep falls below the required threshold of a privilege for any reason (you place a bounty, downvotes, rep recalc, beta→gold site transition, etc) you do lose the privilege, but only until your rep …
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Bounty system : case of bounty awarded but no acceptance

However, instead if they give only the bounty to the answer, they are saying that answer was the most helpful to them. … As such, while automatically handling Accepted→Bounty makes sense, the same for Bounty→Accepted feels like stepping into the "dangerous" territory of potentially putting words in to the mouth of the asker …
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