When a question has an open bounty and no one has commented on the question yet, you see the notice for the status of the bounty and the text/link for "add comment".  You can see it in effect in the following screenshot:        As you can notice that the ds and the t of "add comment" are cutting in the notice's borders and invading privacy.  Can this be fixed?
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The following you could have seen in  (sorry, I've commented there, so you won't see it anymore) in Chrome 35.0.1916.153 m (current version). Notice how the add comment link overlaps the bounty box:    The same you can observe with a comment box on other sites, e.g. at this time in :    Could you shift it a bit down ?  It seems that it happens on more than just Stack Overflow (maybe all sites ?).
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When we go to a page like  we see the active Bounties on a certain tag (in this case, Python). When we put the cursor on the blue bounty box in the list we can see the message  this question has an open bounty worth XX reputation   Wouldn't it be useful to have the end time of the bounty so that it shows... ?  this question has an open bounty worth XX reputation ending in YY days
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In the android app, looking at bounty details using the i button, the bounty reasons are not shown:        The bounty message can provide important information as to the setter's requirements (who may not be the OP and therefore does not wish to edit the question to do so).
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Clearly this is an edge case and I probably shouldn't have even tried awarding the bounty to a deleted answer, but why is the bounty award button even available?  It's not a bug since someone added in the notification seen in the final image.  But that sure seems like a roundabout way to let the user know that they can't award a bounty to a deleted answer.  The second step is particularly strange since the system really ought to know that the warning is pointless: no bounty can be awarded.  My suggestion is to rip-off the  and let bounties be awarded without the warning.  Then remove the single click button from deleted answers.
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When a question has a &quot;comments-only&quot; lock, the following notice is displayed on top of the question:  Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still accepting new answers and other interactions.  However, I noticed that if the question is closed (even before the lock), the same notice is used:  ..which could be confusing, especially for new users. Proposed change to the notice on closed questions:  Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still accepting [votes and] other interactions.  Or, as others have suggested, the additional &quot;but it is still accepting [...]&quot; part can simply be removed as it hardly provides any new information.
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Today, a bounty was awarded to  (thanks @gnat); when I visited my  I noticed that the amount is hardly readable since it's green text on a blue background:    Can that be changed (back?*) to white text please?  *: I'm sure somebody would've noticed it unless it was a very recent change...  (Tested on macOS Mojave, latest versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari.)
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It strikes me that the most popular reason for starting a bounty on a question is because the question hasn't received any answers thus far. However, when starting a bounty, whether there are any answers or not, it still presents you with the full array of reasons for starting the bounty.  Three of the reasons should surely be removed in this instance:     Current answers are outdated   Improve details   Reward existing answer     If the screen is still shown I'd advocate that they were greyed out rather than removed for the sake of consistency.  However, in truth, I think I'd go one step further and suggest this entire screen is skipped in the case where there are no answers. Surely in that case, it's pretty obvious that the reason you're starting a bounty is just "there's no damn answers and I need an answer!" (Or, out of the current options, perhaps that should be "draw attention".)
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with no answers.  But still the text of the bounty message says     This question had a bounty worth +50 reputation from juergen d that ended yesterday; you must award this bounty as soon as possible   Please remove the highlighted text if the question has no answers. I can't award it.
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@username auto-completion for comments was , and is already active on MSO.  However, it only seems to auto-complete the usernames of people who have commented on the post. According to , the list of users who can be explicitly notified also includes:   Anyone who edited the post Anyone who started a bounty on the question The &diams; moderator or  who cast a binding close vote on the question   Why not auto-complete those, as well?
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I put up  over on SO with the assumption that the text would be formatted like it is for a question or answer.  I'm not really sure if I was incorrect in my assumption, or if I just formatted my text improperly, as I can't go back and edit what I put in.  Am I missing an obvious feature?  If not, would it be reasonable to request bounty-text edits—perhaps with moderator-approval to prevent abuse?  Edit: I was trying to use markdown to produce an unordered list as part of my bounty.  What you see in the link is a blob of text with dashes separating phrases
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I start  and when I add a bounty remark I often get it right the first time. Once when a mistake in my message was problematic a moderator was kind enough to take the time to help me by cancelling/refunding it manually, followed by me starting a new one.  in 2012:  How about this:  a (say 5 minute?) short time frame to edit the text, much like comments perhaps during that period a small warning for viewers, explaining the bounty text may still be tweaked  That would allow honest folks to catch perhaps up to 95% of all minor (often formatting) mistakes, without a (big) risk of people investing wasted time to score a bounty while finding out later the bounty requirements changed a lot.  And in 2013, to the question , this  suggests (in part)  I suggest, given that  after it's started, it would be helpful:  If there would be a preview of your bounty text, before posting it; and/or If there would be a link to view the available markdown that's allowed, much like the help for comments.   Question: In 2019, with all the improvements to the site in the intervening years, is it possible to reconsider some way to edit bounty remark within 5 minutes as comments have, or to have some way to correctly preview them? I'm not sure if posting the draft message in an answer post window to preview will display everything correctly. There could potentially be typos or inadvertent formatting characters that display differently between the two, I don't know. I also don't know if there are any bounty-scamming schemes that could be implemented by changing a bounty remark within the first five minutes, the danger seems low but unlike me, some people are clever...  Example of a non-critical formatting problem ; an extra space at the end of the [title ] results in a failed hyperlink display. Everyone can copy/paste it, but a functioning hyperlink would have been better.
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Minor UI glitch: The button to award a bounty is active on a deleted answer. Clicking on it results in the "THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE!" alert.         After confirming, I get the following error though:        So not a fatal bug, but still better not show the +50 next to deleted posts.
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Bounties allow us to provide a message along with bounties we place, should we deem it useful to include one. I use this myself regularly, and sometimes a decent explanation is warranted so that readers understand what's going on.  However, bounty messages get their newlines stripped out. This can impede our attempts to make our bounty messages readable and useful. Just now I wrote  a bounty with 3 paragraphs + a footnote on its own line to maximise its legibility (and could type newlines in the bounty message text input), but after submission the message was compacted into the following:    It's especially strange that bounty messages can be a whole three thousand characters long (enough for a junior essay), while not providing us with paragraphs, a basic building block of legibility:    Not that I think I could ever use the whole 3,000 &mdash; the message above was just 850.  Could bounty descriptions please leave the newlines I write in them intact?  (Should someone decide to write super-tall bounty messages to abuse this ability, bear in mind moderators can refund bounties; a user making a nuisance is not beyond being acted on.)
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(There is an  from , but none for Android, so here goes)    I was happy to see  and wanted to award a bounty. But the SE app for Android doesn't provide a button for adding bounties. Can you please give me a button to add bounty to a post using the app?   Please add this button, using the browser to add the bounty reduces the happiness.
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Noticed this many times but was too lazy to post.  So I see a message in my inbox that bounty is completed and now in grace period, however its title says that "bounty expiring soon"    Wonderful (not wonderful of course). I click it, and... guess what?    Ok. So 49 mins left. But the main problem is that time traveling is . (if it is not, please forbid it).
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According to Jeff's answer, :  So you can now @reply to editors of a post even if they haven't commented.  Yet, I just tried to address the editor of a question in a comment and couldn't. No auto-completion of the name. I typed it in anyway, but it doesn't seem to have reached the editor. I tried it at another post where the same user commented and the @reply worked as expected there (auto-completion and everything). Happened with this question:  I haven't changed anything further so I wouldn't contaminate the crime scene. Edit: I ran some tests with OMG_Ponies, and he did get the messages. So, it's only the auto-complete that doesn't work as expected. And the _ in his name helped to fool me at first.
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To celebrate the , I was just preparing for a shopping spree - for example, I need a good YAML parser for a project I'm working on, and thought I'd add a bounty to  to find out whether anything new has come up since then - only to discover that after starting my first bounty, I can't start any more! Then I saw that the new small print has this to say:  Users may only have one active question bounty at any given time.  This is new, isn't it? It didn't use to be this way. Why is this? Is there a good reason for it? I'm disappointed about this. It imposes an arbitrary and unnecessary limitation and takes away a good bit of my initial enthusiasm for what I thought is now a really great system. Can this please be lifted or at least increased to three or five?  Update: @ccomet and @Jon Seigel make some good points about how an unlimited number of bounties would favour high rep users. While I don't fully agree, I can see their point. I still feel at least three simultaneous bounties would be a fair level. Alternatively, apply the limit on bounties for other people's questions only - that would solve the problem of high-rep users setting the agenda, while everybody can continue to put bounties on their own questions as they like.