# Why does it take two days for a question to become eligible for a bounty?

I asked a question which I reasonably assume that someone here must have encountered (or encountered something very similar to it) before. I'm optimistic that if it got good attention, then I would receive an answer in a short time. That's because the answer to it should be a piece of cake to an expert in the field. However, the question did not get satisfactory attention and it doesn't seem to be getting anymore views than $26$ (perhaps there will be a small increase after I had posted this question).

Anyway, why do we have to wait two days in order to start a bounty? It is my own reputation that's decreasing, no one is getting hurt!

• But a bounty costs the user at least $50$ reputation. Users with high reputation do not usually ask many questions (if at all), users with low reputation (say $\le 100$) won't pay an such amount of their reputation, and new users can't even offer bounties. – user207710 Mar 3 '15 at 21:21