What is meta? ×  I like the bounty system -- I think it's a
great motivator and an enjoyable, if intangible, method of
showing/receiving appreciation.  However, as a new user, I find
it difficult (if not impossible) to participate.  In the first
place, as a just-starting-out coder with little to offer by way
of solutions, I nevertheless ask quite a few questions. There is
an inverse relationship there that perhaps deserves further
exploration and integration into how SO rewards work.  For new
users it is easy and rewarding to ask questions, but I find
myself handicapped and even penalized when it comes to
expressing appreciation. For example, one cannot really reward
two correct answers -- even if they each answer a different part
of the question and the correct answer is comprised of both
answers. As a solution, there is the bounty system -- but access
begins at 75 rep and the lowest reward possible is 50 rep.  At
the moment I have 86 rep and, morally, I owe two such bounties.
I am holding off on paying the