Is it acceptable to post a bounty on the question to raise awareness of your own answer?

Question

I just posted an answer where:

• The question is 3 year old

• The main accepted answer has 30+ upvotes

• However, the answer was heavily (50% to 100%) invalidated canonically by EU material published after the answer was posted.

• I posted the correct answer.

Is it acceptable to post a bounty on a question (and award to my own answer) to highlight it and draw attention to the correct info?

_{I'm going to assume that the poster of the accepted answer won't be so kind as to delete his own 30+ answer just so we don't have incorrect information shadowing out the correct one :)}

Answer 1

Consensus on meta.stackexchange.com seems to indicate that yes, you can use bounties to draw attention to your own answers.

There was concern about this being used as a way to game the system, by gambling reputation in the hopes of earning enough upvotes on a late answer to make a net gain, but this has been addressed by setting increasing minimum bounties

As noted by Robert, this has come up recently. Posting a bounty is a perfectly reasonably thing, a good thing (with badges too!). However, when applied repeatedly to a question it does start to represent abuse.

To help minimise this, but while leaving open the option of offering a subsequent bounty when you really, really are looking for another option we will be implementing a change here, where subsequent bounties have a higher minimum offering. This means you can't place 6 "cheap" bounties of 50 rep, to keep your answer on the bounty board to get lots of pass-by upvotes, as subsequent bounties probably1 will not cover your "spend".

Also:

Another related change has been mentioned by Sam Saffron:

• If you are placing a bounty on a question you answered, your minimum spend is 100