They actually tried the "shotgun" approach first, but decided to move to this model earlier this year. They describe the reasons behind this here: http://blog.s

They actually tried the "shotgun" approach first, but decided to move to this model earlier this year. They describe the reasons behind this here: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-excha... I think this diagram sums it up great: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/se2-venn-diagram.png http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/se2-venn-di...