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What will happen to the bounty offered if I delete my posts through which I've earned reputation?

For example, currently I have a reputation of 400+ in the Workplace and let's say I start a bounty for 300 reputation on a question.

Now after offering that, I delete my posts (I've posted 2 answers and neither is accepted).
So the reputation I've earned is no longer available. Will this affect the bounty offered or will I be prevented from deleting those posts?

I have gone through this page but didn't find something like this.

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    Side note: This one is old enough to give you reputation even after deleting it. I think you'd simply end up with 1 reputation; you can't get any lower.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Jan 4, 2021 at 14:25
  • Thanks, I just gave that as an example. It may be possible that someone has posted only 1 post, earned rep from that and delete it after awarding bounty.
    – 19aksh
    Commented Jan 4, 2021 at 14:38

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This shouldn't affect the bounty offered. The bounty amount is taken away from your reputation as soon as it is offered. Therefore, even if you get down to 1 reputation, you have already been 'billed' the bounty amount and the bounty should go ahead as planned.

I've had something similar before. I had 101 reputation from the association bonus, offered a bounty of 100. I got taken down to 1 reputation but the bounty was awarded as usual as I had already been 'billed' the bounty amount.

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  • Thanks for your answer. In that case, will the reputation get deducted as we earn points through new posts?
    – 19aksh
    Commented Jan 4, 2021 at 15:02
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    @Ak. No.
    – 41686d6564
    Commented Jan 4, 2021 at 15:21

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