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What should happen if a user offers a bounty but does not have the personal rep to fund it? The bounty help says that bounties are "funded by the personal reputation of the user who offers it".

This bountied question offers a 100-point bounty, yet the user has only 15 rep. As it happens, a review of this user's history shows a broad curiosity but low quality questions.

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There is no such thing as an unfunded bounty, from What is a bounty? How can I start one? we can see...

  • All bounties are paid for up front and non-refundable under any circumstances.

So, the reason they have so little rep is that they spent almost all of it on adding a bounty to their question, which means they must have really wanted an answer.

As it is, it's a Pro's and Con's question so I've just closed it as Opinion Based.

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