There was 5 or 6 days left on the bounty for a question of mine, and when I logged back in I noticed I had be awarded the reputation back. In the question, it no longer says a bounty is available. Under my user page it says the bounty was awarded to me, even though according to the documentationdocumentation this is never supposed to happen.
I had told the only person who provided a partial answer to my question, rather than question me as to my intentions as everyone else did, that I would award him the bounty if no one else could provide a more complete answer to my question (http://serverfault.com/questions/591560/raid-check-parity-on-read-verify-on-writehttps://serverfault.com/questions/591560/raid-check-parity-on-read-verify-on-write).
I can only assume a vindictive moderator did this. And if this is the case it seems rather unprofessional to remove bounties for no reason other than they dont like what someone wants to do with their storage.