One thing that makes SO an easy target for this is that they let you download all their data and you don't even need to crawl and scrape the content from the we

One thing that makes SO an easy target for this is that they let you download all their data and you don't even need to crawl and scrape the content from the website. Just download a dump, put it in an database, slap an HTML template on top of it, splash a few ads, and boom.