One of the reasons for starting bounties is to get the community to provide answers (to questions that don't have enough attention or can be answered if given some incentive), but at times even after the bounty expires there is no answer added to an unanswered question.
The current process for bounties still include notifications to the person who created the bounty to award the bounty once it expires, even if there is no answer for it.
Is there a way to create some incentive to continue the bounty but at a lower cost to the person who created it (because they didn't get the expected result, which is to get an answer), or maybe reimburse some of the cost so that they might create another bounty for a different question?
Is the process of starting and awarding bounties creating good incentives for people to post and answer them, or should we revisit this process so it provides a better experience?
