Let's say there's two questions that have been upvoted by different amounts: 10 and 5, say. To me, that's a rough measure of their 'importance' the community at large. One is twice as important as the other.
Now let's say that there's an answer to each, and both of the answers have the same number of upvotes: 2. The answerer gets 20 rep for each of them.
But isn't it the case that the answer to the 10 vote question is more important than the answer to the 5 vote question? If that's the case, shouldn't the answerer get more reputation for an equally good answer to a more important question?
I've got no idea what the 'normalization' factor should be between the two, nor how this would be shown to the user (ie, does the answerer see a penalization in their reputation history on the date that the question was downvoted?). Just wondering whether this intuitive sense of the relative value of answers is correct/shared by the community.