This question has an outstanding bounty from the Community user.
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6$\begingroup$ I suspect the bounty was offered by a user (perhaps the OP) whose account since then was deleted. Thus, the ownership of the bounty went to the Community User. $\endgroup$– JRNJun 4, 2019 at 0:41
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3$\begingroup$ Joel is correct. More information here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196716/… $\endgroup$– Todd Trimble ModJun 4, 2019 at 0:44
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$\begingroup$ Thanks, @JoelReyesNoche and ToddTrimble. No need to keep this question open now. $\endgroup$– Steven LandsburgJun 4, 2019 at 0:57
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2$\begingroup$ I will add that if you look at the questions revision history or at the timeline you can see there: "Notice added Authoritative reference needed by user140765." (Although I am not sure whether this message is still displayed there after the bounty ends.) $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakJun 4, 2019 at 2:15
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$\begingroup$ @MartinSleziak: I don't understand what that means. $\endgroup$– Steven LandsburgJun 4, 2019 at 2:20
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2$\begingroup$ @StevenLandsburg I was merely pointing out the fact that the username was shown there. When starting a bounty, you can choose one of several bounty remarks - as you can try for yourself if you try to offer bounty, but do not submit it or you can look at the screenshot shown in this answer: How should bounties be categorized?. "Authoritative reference needed" is one of the possible choice for bounty reason. $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakJun 4, 2019 at 2:31
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3$\begingroup$ @ToddTrimble Perhaps this is closed to the question at hand: When can the community user offer a bounty? (The one you linked is about bounty awarded by the Community user, this one is about bounty offered by the Community user.) $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakJun 4, 2019 at 4:01
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1$\begingroup$ If I'm correct it was given by the user "Cut the wood" before this user complained in this meta post (meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/4253/…) and then closed this account (which is seemingly one among many others). $\endgroup$– YCorJun 4, 2019 at 15:48
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1$\begingroup$ @YCor The bounty was offered by user with id 140765. As far as I can tell from Google and SEDE, the username was kartop_man. (Those result will eventually disappear - SEDE after the next update of the data, probably also Google after the crawler looks at a newer version of those pages.) The post you linked shows that "Cut the wood " had userid 141414. $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakJun 4, 2019 at 16:12
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4$\begingroup$ BTW I see bounties from user with id 140765 on questions 331860 331917, 332839 and 330689. $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakJun 4, 2019 at 16:14
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4$\begingroup$ Also bounties have been cast by two distinct "new" users at questions 333144 and 333039. It's strange that new users with no reputation (no question/answer) can cast such bounties. I don't know if I should post a separate meta question for this sounds as a loophole. $\endgroup$– YCorJun 9, 2019 at 23:08
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1$\begingroup$ @YCor: I think these users used up their association bonus for the bounty. Although I find it weird that it is not easy to associate their MO accounts with those at other SE sites: for example, user 333144 has apparently a different username at SE, see stackexchange.com/users/6543246/stepan-banach?tab=activity. $\endgroup$– Mateusz KwaśnickiJun 10, 2019 at 8:46
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This is answered at the StackExchange bounty FAQ. If a user account is deleted with an outstanding bounty, then the Community user becomes the bounty owner, and the points are eventually awarded following the "no intervention" rules.
answered Jun 5, 2019 at 1:01