@fixer That's simply abuse of the dup system. While "the majority of site users" may not be able to create bounties, in cases where it's warranted there's almost always users with at least 75 rep (less than the association bonus!) that can add the bounty. Even without that, you can easily find somebody with rep via chat. So a new question that's predestined to be closed is neither beneficial nor right nor necessary. There's a system specifically to made for this purpose, so we should use it.

@fixer Bounties are not required for answers, you can go try to answer the question now, it'll work, you'll see.

@fixer They're not a requirement just like having good answers aren't a requirement. Bounties are the opposite of hurdles to answers.

@fixer This is what bounties are for. If you don't want to bounty the outdated question or answer it yourself, that's just too bad. You aren't entitled to quality up-to-date answers if you can't even be bothered to spend a bit of rep for the site.

yay it better be less bad