[jbrooksuk]

I managed to get around 2.5k rep, but since my higher-level questions don't get enough attention, I offer bounties - losing the rep. Even if I then answer my own question, the rep remains gone. This never makes sense to me.

I have issues with SO, but I use it almost daily.

[ygra]

I cannot remember giving a bounty that was actually worth it (in the low six figures of rep by now). Sometimes you have a question and no answer turns up in a few days. You put a bounty up and suddenly you get answers, but they're just grasping for straws, or the bounty in that case, by simply answering anything that could be helpful. At least for my unanswered questions a bounty never turned up a good answer.