@MichaelClark data.stackexchange.com/photo/query/edit/519681

I kind of agree with scott here, and in particular that michael your answer to your new question would be a great answer to the old one. You could consider answering it and adding a "draw more attention" bounty.

@mattdm What is a "draw more attention" bounty? I understand what a bounty for a question is. But how does a bounty on a question draw more attention to an answer at the bottom of 10+ other answers?

@MichaelClark You can give a reason for the bounty; one of them is "draw more attention". Another is "an existing answer is great". In this case I added a bounty with a custom reason.

@MichaelClark I made three non-sensationalistic answers to new questions which got 6 and 7 upvotes.

You've had two answers with 5+ upvotes in the last 90+ days, and one of them was the Mike Pence photo that got tens of thousands of views due to the Presidential election in the U.S. being involved in the photo in question.

Ok then, what's the point?

@MichaelClark IKTF. Unfortunatelty, I do not see a motivation for SE team to fix this issue. However, the problem is not with NEW answers to NEW questions but the NEW answers to the OLD questions. Apparently, there should be a selectable mode of viewing for members to view recent answers on top.

Anyways, you said about "any", so that one is enough.

Unless it's a question that includes nudity, 4K or other current tech/gear type buzzword questions and answers here rarely get much attention. Especially when those answers are to old questions that already have 10+ answers, some of which scored very high numbers when this group seemed to be far more active than it is now.

There could be a designated review stream with all answers.

... if SE was interested in it.

Part of that probably has to do with the maturation of the site. Fewer and fewer new questions are truly unique and original with no existing duplicate/near enough duplicate AND significant to a wide ranging audience. "Does a 430EX II trigger a YN560 IV without any additional gear" is never going to get the same kind of attention that "How do I interest models to pose nude for me" or "Is this photo of a major politician fake" will draw.

The former type of questions won't even get as much attention as any one of the near countless questions that ask "Does a 50mm EF-S lens have a different focal length than a 50mm EF lens?"

@MichaelClark Bountied questions are put on the featured tab; the "draw more attention" option basically says "I'm bountying this to get it featured." The Stack has a lot of different ways to sort its content (there is a "sort by most recently created/modified" feature for answers on every question--it's the "active" option out of "active - oldest - votes").

Aaaaand the accepted question still stays on top.

Oh, and "fake" versus "real" HDR questions seem to still do rather well. Although the tide does seem to have turned as to whether 32-bit floating point light maps derived from multiple (at least 3) exposures and tone-mapped into 8-bits OR a broader definition that includes pre-digital HDRI techniques is the correct definition.

@EuriPinhollow Well, yeah. But if the issue is "It's the seventh answer down," then my response is "Only on one particular sort setting; on another it's number two."

If the issue is "It's not going to be number one," then... eh, no, but the Stack expects its voting users to be interested enough to scroll a little.

@BESW Number two is already number three because of question itself and is not visible on my 1200 tall LCD.

@MichaelClark Cameras are capable of capturing more dynamic range than LCDs and printers can print for more than 5 years already.

There is no point in calling stacking the HDR because good enough camera output is already HDR in terms of having more DR than 99,999% of output media.

@EuriPinhollow Cameras have pretty much always had higher dynamic range than display mediums. Film could also record a wider range than printing papers at the time could reproduce. Thus Adam's zone system and dodging and burning, etc.

@EuriPinhollow Which is pretty much what I have consistently argued for years here. I used to always get downvoted for it.

@MichaelClark Oh noes! Somebody is wrong st SE for years!

I have seen quite some BS here though.

@EuriPinhollow Please read the original comment above re: HDR questions again. There is a big OR in the middle between two opposing definitions. In that comment neither position is taken. Apparently you stopped reading before you got to the "OR"...

@MichaelClark "OR" does not mean that somebody taking some side whould downvote those taking the other side - this is what I mean. In my understanding there should be strong enouh reasoning behind a downvote - at least the author should be clearly wrong in something. This is what I implied when I said "somebody is wrong".

@MichaelClark Personally I see no reason in counting stacking as HDR exclusively even in the terms of recording photos.