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Suspended user cannot award bounty

I asked a question on Stack Overflow: Refactoring and creating separate methods.

I want to award my bounty to this answer by user NetMage

However, my Stack Overflow account is suspended recently for 7 days, and the suspension still has 5 more days to end. And I know I can't vote, ask, answer, or comment as pointed on A Day in the Penalty Box by Mr.Atwood with the sentence below.

You will be unable to vote, ask, answer, or comment.

I couldn't find anything about not being able to accept an answer or award bounty so I tried to accept the mentioned answer above and award my bounty to it and I got a

Suspended users cannot vote

rejection which can be seen below with a screenshot.

Suspended users cannot vote screenshot

I know this

If you do not award your bounty within 7 days, the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount.

from the Bounty help page.

None of the answers given to my question is upvoted and the answer I mentioned is not the oldest one after the bounty started so it won't be awarded by community.

What can I do? (except being a good guy and not get suspended :))

Bastardo
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