Cannot Create Bounty - Bug I wanted to create a second bounty on the following question: Weird Apache Access Logs But i cannot. I already have 75+ reputation and any of the criteria wherein a bounty is not allowed is not applicable to my question(shown below): The question has been asked in the last 48 hours. Give the community a chance to answer your question normally first. You already have three outstanding bounties. You can only have three open bounties at any one time. To start a bounty on this question, you must award at least one of the previous bounties first. The question already has a bounty. To start a second bounty on this question, you must wait for the current bounty to be awarded first.

This is not a bug, it is by design. You have to double the amount of your previous bounty for subsequent bounties on the same question. This mechanism is in place to avoid placing multiple cheap bounties on a question in order to maintain high visibility for it.

So, since you already awarded a bounty of 50 rep on that question your next bounty on that question must be at least 100 rep, which you can't give yet. Get yourself over 100 rep and you should be able to add another bounty.

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