@quid I don't see the problem. For instance say you have 3 questions from 3 different courses. And you set a bounty on one of them, but no one answers. Now you want your points back :) If you had that option, then now you could start a new bounty on another question, and so on. Where is the problem?

@quid ?

@Isabella that it inflates the number of bounties.

Now, maybe if it were limited to ones own questions that might help. However it raises the further problem what would happen if one does receive an answer but is not satisfied with the answer.

@quid I'm in the case of ones own questions. //That's a different problem. In that case, you should not have that option of receiving back your points.

Because they probably answered ones question just because of the bounty.

@Isabella thus if somebody answers. "Great question!!! I want to know that too!" You lose the points because of that?

Sure, an extreme case, and the answer would be deleted, and we might say there was no answer; but what about:

"This is not a full answer but here is an idea: {something more or less reasonable}"

Then it becomes tricky.

@quid That'd be funny :3

@quid if it's reasonable, it'd be fine. And we also should see if it has the requirements made by OP. Like 'I want canonical answer blah blah, Resourses blah blah '

@Isabella who could do that? The person placing the bounty is biased.

@quid In first place OP. And then OP could bring that to you, to mods, so that you could see if it's reasonable to give back (or not) the points.

You could analyze the answer given to OP's question

@Isabella yes, but we rather do not want to have to deal with that. As mentioned above if there is something really unusual in the circumstance, we are anyway able to cancel the bounty before it expires. Thus, if it is 'on demand and at mods discretion' that's anyway possible.

Sorry I have to leave now.

@quid ok. Bye

@quid When you come back, why would you rather to not to deal with that? If it's because of a lot of work that you mods already have, maybe you should consider to increase the members of the team.