It seems that a question which i answered myself, and then deleted the answer still appears as "answered by myself" and thus requires a minimal bounty or 100 reputation instead of 50.
I know and understand the reason where bounty minimum was increased to 100 for self-answered questions, but what if the answer is now deleted ?
Is that a bug or a feature ?
This is indeed a new feature (introduced in September 2011) to prevent abuse of the bounty system.This is mentioned explicitly in a few meta answers but, as far as I can tell, not in FAQs.
One way this abuse was done was:
Someone would post an answer on someone else's question, and then place a bounty on the question to draw attention to it. He would then gain more upvotes from the publicity than he spent on the bounty. The spend was raised to 100 to discourage this.
The reason it applies even if your answer is deleted, is because you might still undelete the answer.
