Details of the underlying process, and how and why this happens, isare described below as supplemental reading.
If this was a feature of the SE UI, a lot of users might benefit from it on their own questions on rare occasions (users tend not to stick around if they post a lot of bad questions). As an app or script, the typical user probably won't have much need or incentive for this. I anticipate it would be of interest mainly to two groups of users wouldwho would run into this situation with any frequency: