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@Joren: I think this means that some steady-state rate will be achieved regarding basic questions. However another issue is that there may be more users to answer them as time progresses.
When the bad guys are wrecking havoc in your town, do you call the Justice League or do you call an individual superhero, and he refers you to another one because it's a border-case of whether he's the right hero to handle it?
@TheTXI: following your comment I added the "what-if" tag to my question. although perhaps it's yet another example for bad tagging, like Shog9 described :) btw, see my comment to Ian's answer - what if developers would back-track from "design mistakes" instead of sticking to them? then probably there would be a lot less mess in the software world I guess.
@Ian Elliott: Regarding the sum paid for the domain. I'm not necessarily saying that it was a mistake. But if it was, then saying "I already paid 10K for this, so I can't stop now!" would be a saying typical for an irresponsible gambler in Vegas, and it would also be to his detriment to follow it..
@Shog9: the "heated political debates" has an "or even" prefix. I didn't mean that's where I want it to head, I was "joking"/stating a "crazy idea". it's probably problematic because in politics people may have agendas rather than a will to get a question answered, which will make it full of junk.
@Ian Elliott: Anyhow, I don't think this issue is really relevant to the question. I just gave an example, and even if I laid it in terms of "who you are", that may have just been a bad choice of phrasing. The example question is still one that crosses topic-site boundaries, and you can probably come up with other good examples too.
@TheTXI: I added a section to my question addressing your response. I added some details on how it should be implemented so these problems won't happen.
@Ian Elliott: It seems that according to Jeff Atwood the distinction is also about who you are: "Is it really so hard to figure out which community you belong to, and thus, where your question belongs? Ask yourself this: what is your job title? which community do you consider yourself a part of?" from blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site. It makes sense too. Maybe programmers and sysadmins talk different languages and so could not understand each other's questions and answers.
