At times questions are asked without any proper responses that are useful to the person who posts questions, even though there might be few upvoted answers. These generally get pushed back quickly given the frequency of new questions. This would cause the question to escape the view of the right person capable of answering it.
Some people would be motivated to answer unanswered questions. Some might skip going through the question if they see enough number of votes on the already answered question. Or might not make past the first few pages of the unanswered questions.
Is there a proper way to bump up the question without breaking any rules?
From https://stackoverflow.com/faq:
Edit your question to provide status and progress updates. Document your own continued efforts to answer your question. This will naturally bump your question and get more people interested in it.
- What does the bump here mean?
- Does editing the question push it up the stack in the relevant tags?
- Make it move to the first pages?