StackExchange Scraping

Research infrastructure, not a product. The lab wanted to know whether feedback signals - votes, accepted answers, edit cycles - shape content quality over time. Most of the interesting decisions ended up being about backoff strategy and resumable extraction rather than the analysis on top; the Stack Exchange API is generous if you respect it and brutal if you don't. Taught me that for any long-running scrape, the first thing worth designing is the resume path, not the happy path.