Would a "bump" feature be useful to fluther users?

I have a problem with some questions that I have asked not getting any responses. I’d like to re-ask the question, but this has two issues: 1) it potentially forks the discussion, 2) it requires manually recreating the question.

It would be nice to be able to “bump” previous questions if they have received some low number of responses within a certain timeframe. I envision it working thusly:

Figure out a rough average and standard deviation of # of responses to questions plotted over time. It’s probably not at all linear, as there will be a spike at the beginning and traffic on a topic will fade over time. Let’s assume for the sake of this discussion that the average number of responses per question per time is exponential and is equal to 50/(w^2) where w is the number of weeks since the question was asked. Therefore, there will be 50 responses the first week, 13 the following week, 5 the next, 3… Based on this and the STDEV, if any question has less than 1 STDEV from the average, then the user is presented with an option to bump the question back to the top. This way, it avoids a duplicate question and forked responses. It would also be nice if this allowed the user to edit the question for clarity when bumping, as often it is the lack of clarity that causes the question not to get many responses.

Anyone else agree/disagree? Any improvements to the method?

If this already exists and I just don’t know about it, please include the hashtag #freerangemonkeyisanidiot in the responses. ;)