We had a question on Programmers Meta about a user not seeing the "start a bounty" link on their post. It turned out that there was a bounty on it earlier and the 24-hour grace period on awarding the bounty hasn't expired yet.
The user did check the FAQ and found that the relevant section doesn't mention the wait period.
Since that part of the FAQ is the same for all Stack Exchange sites, I'm posting this here as a feature request. The FAQ should be updated to include this information:
There are a few other rules around bounties:
- [...]
- Once a bounty expires, a new bounty cannot be started for 24 hours after the bounty period ended to allow for automatic bounty calculations on the original bounty.